It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey to recount what has been read the previous week and what you plan to read this week. Books Read: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander Currently Reading: Harry Potter and […]
From the beginning I knew there was a secret even deeper repressed than just the fall of the Romanovs. His dear May had a vast collection of Fabergé eggs an item Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina collected. The couple’s only child, a son had hemophilia, a disorder that the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich had. And what happened to […]
Thursday Tea is a weekly meme hosted by Anastasia at Birdbrain{ed} Book Blog. The Book: The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander is a historical fiction of the Romanov’s last days in the Ipatiev House seen through the eyes of a kitchen boy. The Tea: Good Strong English Tea — That is seriously the name of […]
I have a whole new appreciation for this book and another reason to loath Dolores Umbridge — Dolores Umbridge is Sarah Palin! The similarities are glaringly obvious. I shall start at the beginning with her being McCain/Fudge’s right-hand man {or women}. Both where not well-known outside of their community before being promoted to a higher […]
It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey to recount what has been read the previous week and what you plan to read this week. Books Read: Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Currently Reading: Harry Potter […]
I won’t bore you with how wonderful I think Pride and Prejudice is, or my fictional crush on Mr. Darcy, or that I want Elizabeth Bennet as my BBF. You can read about that here Instead, I am going to discuss the Annotated part of the novel. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about […]
“Meet new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold” I loved that song growing up and describes Crazy for Books weekly meme Book Blogger Hop perfectly. A chance to catch up on older and favorite blogs that you may be neglecting and discovering new ones in the process. Questions of […]
Thursday Tea is a weekly meme hosted by Anastasia at Birdbrain{ed} Book Blog. I am a majorly HUGE addict when it comes to teas, hot or cold (beverage or weather) I usually have a mug of something near by and think drinking tea while reading is the perfect combo — they are both so soothing! […]
Frank McCourt’s Memoir focuses on his childhood living in Ireland during the 1930s. His father drinks away the dole money and has Frank and his brothers swearing to die for Ireland every night, because of this, the McCourts live in poverty living on borrowed time and money and the goodness of the St. Vincent de […]
The novel is well paced and Mathilda is a fun lively character, parading around the house in her dead sister’s clothes and amidst it all, dealing with the dreaded puberty. Despite her attempts at being bad, the author, Victor Lodato, shows the innocence and naivety as 9/11 takes place during all this chaos with Mathilda […]