Hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read Q: Tell us about a book that you didn’t like and why we shouldn’t read it A: I’m not sure if this even counts because I didn’t finish it, but my suggestion (or lack thereof) is Allegiant by Veronia Roth. Below is my review for the novel: I ordered Allegiant through […]
The only book that comes close to my ardent love of Pride and Prejudice is Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. I’ve devoured it over and over again since I was thirteen and have religiously watched the movie every single year since I was ten. I guess you can say I lost my Gone with […]
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 Last Week on the Blog This Week on the Blog
Cris Mazza is the author of over 17 books, including Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, Waterbaby, Trickle-Down Timeline, and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? Her first novel, How to Leave a Country, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Mazza has co-edited three anthologies, including Men Undressed: Women Writers on the […]
Author: Peter Danish Publisher: Pegasus Books Publication Date: February 24, 2014 Source: Book Tour The Tenor is a sweeping tale of historical fiction in the style of Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” and De Burniere’s “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.” It swiftly moves from Pino Vaggi’s youth in pre-war Italy, to his coming of age as a soldier in […]
“How many bodies are there?” Short and sweet, but this first sentence grabbed me. It set the expectations and had me plowing through to learn the answer. I just finished watching an episode of CNBC’s show American Greed: Scams, it was on Rita Crundwell who embezzled 53 million dollars from her hometown. How does this […]
When I began Happily Ever After I immediately pegged Sadie as “the Bridget Jones type.” Single and middle-aged, she is sifting her way through life with back-handed humor and an obsession with word counts. The only difference is that Sadie has a head on her shoulders and a little more responsibility. Now picture Bridget in an […]
The Grip of God by Rebecca Hazell Above by Isla Morley My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Kyle Demore and the Timekeeper’s Key by Samuel J. Vega The Collector of Dying Breaths by M.J. Rose Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter by Anne Clinard Barnhill Challenge Progress: How Many Books 15/100 books Ebooks 7/10 books Protagonist 7/8 books […]
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 Last Week on the Blog This Week on the Blog Books I Acquired
One of the goals I’ve completed for Bloggiesta was to join Twitter (user name fondofbooks) I’ve been mainly lurking the past few days but it was completely different from what I was expecting. Despite my current lack of tweets it is much easier to use than I thought, and more mature (for some reason I […]