Month in Review: November 2018
I link up to two wonderful book blogs Feed Your Fiction Addiction and The Book Date to share my monthly reading. Books Reviewed Netgalley Ratio [wppb progress=90 option=flat color=#877aa7 text=”71/80″]
Month: November 2018
Braving the Wilderness
Review Braving the Wilderness takes on the subject of belonging. I typically wouldn’t have picked up a book that to me, falls into the self-help category but I decided to give it a try as I work my way through Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selections. I really had to slog my way through the book […]
New Review Style and Black Friday for the Blog
I have never been one to participate in Black Friday. I prefer to sleep in the day after Thanksgiving. However, I am not adverse to Black Friday shopping in my PJs, which is exactly what I did. Ashley at Nosegraze was holding a sale on her plugins, I just couldn’t resist and purchased the Book […]
Weekly Wrap-Up #121
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and The Book Date Off The Blog I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. I spent Thanksgiving at my parents house this year. It was very low-key and was nice to […]
The Good Neighbor
Review I first heard of The Good Neighbor at a trip to Costco. I always check their book section and I grabbed ahold of this book as quickly as a child would candy. However, having just gotten into audiobooks I decided to see who narrated it. LeVar Burton. My boyfriend and I looked at each […]
Lucky
First Sentence In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheatre, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. Review Alice Sebold is a powerful writer. Be it fiction or memoir she has […]
Weekly Wrap-Up #120
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer Off The Blog On Saturday, the bf and I drove to Aurora, Illinois. A friend of mine is a costume designer at the Paramount Theater and invited us to the opening […]
Something in the Water
Goodreads Progress Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave? Wonder no longer. It takes an age. However long you think it takes, double that. That opening line had me at hello and grabbed my attention as to learn not only who she was burying but why. I couldn’t help but roll […]
A Man Called Ove
Reasons to Read A Man Called Ove If you love character-driven, heart-warming reads A Man Called Ove is a must Ove is a rarity as he is a loveable curmudgeon and his story is like an onion, with each layer invoking more emotion. Fredrik Backman has a very subtle sense of humor that could bring […]
Men at Arms
I’m going to be honest, I hated Guards! Guards! It was disjointed, the characters were undeveloped and this branch of Fantasy is not my jam. If it had not been for my boyfriend, who loves this series, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels would be gone from my shelf like Mary Jo and the car. Yet due […]