First Sentence A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which, to look ahead. Reasons to Listen to The End of the Affair Colin Firth brings life into his performance and found myself going back on more than one occasion to listening […]
It is the already the start of my yearly end of year memes, this one is entitled My Life According To The Books I Read In 2018. Describe yourself: The Bad Seed by William March Describe where you currently live: The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck If you could go anywhere, where would […]
What to Expect A suspenseful mind-bender Pictures of Matt Damon dancing in your head Wickedly good writing Oh No He Didn’t! Quick Thoughts The Talented Mr. Ripley was well written and was very suspenseful. Unfortunately, because I had seen the movie, the shock of some of the plot points were lost for me. Fortunately, […]
My To Be Read List is a monthly meme hosted by Michelle at Because Reading. Each month I will make a post with three books from my TBR list. Readers will then vote on which book I should read next. The following Saturday the winning book will be announced. Then on the last Saturday […]
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″]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]