David Sedaris’ Christmas stories have me torn. My favorite of the six short stories is his retelling of his holiday job as Santa’s Elf. He turns a humiliating job into well, not so humiliating. Sedaris recounts the beauty of people watching. The various Santas and their different approaches with the anticipated children and the parents […]
I’d Know You Anywhere is a chilling tale I could not turn away from. It was disturbing and vulnerable all at once — I didn’t realize that could be possible. The characters are well developed with their personality traits invoking the proper emotion appropriate for the subject matter at hand, bring the novel to life. […]
E-Book Challenge Hosted by Workaday Reads Challenge Guidelines: This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 – Dec 31, 2012. Anyone can join, you don’t need to be a blogger. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to sign-up in the comments. You can post reviews to any book site (i.e. Amazon, Barnes and […]
I need to get my mojo back! I’ve been in a reading slump for a little over two months. Right now, I am reading Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff which is reading a bit like a text book, putting me to sleep after two pages. I normally would have given up by now but its for […]
The Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge hosted by Michelle The True Book Addict at The Christmas Spirit Details: challenge will run from Monday, November 21, 2011 through Friday, January 6, 2011 (Twelfth Night or Epiphany). cross over with other challenges is totally permitted AND encouraged! These must be Christmas novels, books about Christmas lore, a book of […]
Like all books or movies that have a tragic ending the story begins with Janie Johnson having a perfect life, loving friends and family, good grades and a crush on the boy next door. All around Janie comes off as the average “girl next door”. But her world comes crashing down when lactose intolerant Janie […]
Currently Reading: Read: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley Dracula by Bram Stoker Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson Read-a-Thons: Frightful Fall Bout Of Books Read-Alongs: Dracula Challenges Joined: Regency and Victorian Reads Challenges Completed: E-Book The Classics Circuit: Gothic The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Before I Go To Sleep is to be likened to the film, Memento, only without Guy Pierce and on crack. Remember, crack is wack. Christine Lucas, gained amnesia after a hit and run accident and can only hold one days memories at a time, when the clock strikes midnight, her brain hits rewind to play […]
I’ve completed the E-Book Reading Challenge hosted at The Ladybug Reads There were several levels to said challenge, I had chosen to read three during the year which are as follows The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley The Giver by Lois Lowry
It’s here! The Bout of Books Read-a-Thon hosted by Amanda from On a Book Bender Said read-a-thon is an exciting full week (October 24 to October 30) of well, reading, and mini-challenges dispersed in between. Here’s my book list for the week. Currently Reading: Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson To Read Songs For […]