It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn–It was good, it just pushed some of my buttons. I’ve been assured that my issues get resolved as the series continues, and I could even see it […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan–I never read series books back-to-back, but I had to know how this ended! Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi–Very funny, honest, graphic novel about the sex […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach–Finished as weirdly funny as it started. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell–Loved this. If you’re an Austen fan and haven’t read it, go correct that […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read:The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman–An important Holocaust story, but I felt the book lacked focus. Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich–My first time through this fun mystery series, and I have to say I’m […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss–So many people whose opinion I respect have loved this book, I expected to love it too. Unfortunately, I didn’t. 3 stars. M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past two weeks, I’ve Read: Fortune’s Fool by Mercedes Lackey–This is another fun installment in the Five Hundred Kingdoms fairy tale series Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer–Very intense, very readable non-fiction The Roar by Emma Clayton–Fast-paced dystopian sci-fi for […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Read: I finally finished Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George on Sunday. I also knocked out a nice little Christmas book my mom gave me, The Christmas Cross, by Max Lucado. I also read The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig. […]
It’s the end of 2010 already! It seems like I just wrote this kind of post for 2009! I finished up with a grand total of 111 books read (although I’m hoping to finish up one today). According to GoodReads, that’s 37,273 pages. That sounded impressive until I saw that I read 11,000 more in 2009! What can I say? Blogging took up a […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It has been forever since I’ve made time for this meme! I’m slowly getting my act more together the longer I’m at my new job, so I hope to get back in the groove and see what everyone is reading. Read: Bending […]
The Classics By Caroline Taggart, Author of The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus’s Throne to the Fall of Rome Do you know Latin? How about Greek? Odds are you know more than you think. The influence of these “classical” civilizations is incredibly widespread. The classics have left their mark on our language, […]
Today wraps up Banned Books Week. I have to admit that I was a little stumped for something to write. I feel like I’ve said everything I wanted to say with my opinion piece last week. I didn’t want to post more reviews. Staring at my computer screen and the cursor blinking insistently back at […]