Currently Reading: Road to Reckoning by Robert Lautner Reviewed: Slimed by Matthew Klickstein The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Munk Kidd Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert March by Geraldine Brooks An Untitled Lady by Nicky Penttila The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley Fractures by […]
Interview with the Vampire had been recommended to me by several friends and picked up at my latest trip to the public library. I immediately became engrossed in this novel and was transported to 18th-century Louisiana. Anne Rice’s descriptions on a vampire’s day-to-day or night-to night life were fascinating; from the transformation to mortal to […]
Sharp Objects is a well-paced novel keeping the reader in suspense throughout. I tried to savor the last thirty pages but became such a page-turner as the murderer became uncovered I had a hard time doing so. Even after it appears that it is solved, cased closed, the Epilogue tells us differently, it uncovers an […]
The first half of the novel or Daisy as a child and young adult is interesting and a good read, learning about her parent-less childhood with a co-guardian who has sexual feelings for 11-year-old Daisy Goodwill and eventually marries her 20 some years later, but also reading about her brief marriage to her first husband […]
Winter’s Respite Read-A-Thon hosted by Michelle at The True Book Addict starts today. My goal for this week is to read at least two books and read two hours each day. That seems manageable to me. I usually promise a check-in post during the read-a-thon but I need to face the music and come to […]
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer Last Week on the Blog This Week on the Blog Books I Acquired
Mini Bloggiesta has started and as you can see by the button runs the entire weekend! Bloggiesta is a great time to scrutinize my blog and fix/update/improve all the little (or not so little) nuances. Below is my honey-do list. Back-up Blog Update Linkedin profile and add social media icon Join Book Blogging Community and make social […]
I read Mudbound several years ago for book club. We had gone through a rut of “happy books” which are not to my taste — I prefer a little hardship in my reading material. A guy had recently joined which had me thinking “good, our selections won’t/can’t be gender specific and will be of more […]
Hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read Q: What books are you looking forward to reading in 2014? A: In particular order: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Longbourn by Jo Baker The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh Cress by Marissa Meyer Wake by Anna Hope Faithful Place by Tana French Broken Harbor by Tana […]
It should come to no surprise that I love a good read-a-thon and that’s exactly what Michelle’s seasonal read-a-thons are. A Winter’s Respite is approaching, beginning on Monday, January 27 – Sunday, February 2. A whole glorious week of reading. I currently don’t have a list of books compiled but that will be my assignment […]