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2023 Books in Translation Reading Challenge
2023 Southern Literature Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2023 Southern Literature Reading Challenge! We’ll focus on books and authors from the southeastern region of the United States. Table of Contents: Definition of “The South” Definitions of the South are flexible, so I’ve decided to base my definition on the current makeup of the Southern Legislative Conference: That said, I’m not […]
Weekly Update for November 20, 2022
Welcome to my weekly update for November 20, 2022! Well hello there! Long time, no see! My last update was on August 28. I wrote in that post that my husband and I were coming out of a quiet few weeks just hanging around Billings, Montana and we had a couple of busy weekends planned. […]
Wake by Rebecca Hall: Book Review
4 Stars. I honestly expected to find more hard facts in the book than I did. But Dr. Hall addresses that. Even when she found records of revolts led by women, they rarely contained more than a first name. So she decided to make “measured use of historical imagination” and fill in the gaps. That’s fair enough, especially since […]
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs: Book Review
3 Stars. I enjoyed the second volume of this series but it didn’t quite grab me the same way the first one did. It’s been years since I read the first one so maybe the time lapse and/or my shifting tastes are to blame. I feel the creepy old photos are incorporated a bit more seamlessly than they were in the first book; however, […]
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: Book Review
2 Stars. I imagine that this book is a fantastic choice for a book club or assigned reading but I, as a solo reader, just found it confusing. The plot jumped around with little resolution, characters appeared and disappeared, and I couldn’t find an entry point to understanding it. To be fair, it’s written in an […]
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen: Book Review
5 Stars. In my zeal to read a new book by Sarah Addison Allen, I found that I had inhaled this book in two sittings. Oops. No savoring the prose here. But a friend had sent me an ARC so I feel the need to write a more reasoned review and I wanted another chance to take my time with the book anyway. So I’ve read this twice within […]
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis: Book Review
3.5 Stars. I don’t read a lot of poetry and don’t really feel that I have the tools to review it. All I can say is that I know what I like when I read it. I’m not someone who is going to devote a lot of time to dissecting a poem and wrenching every ounce of meaning from it. I had enough of that in school. I can’t even remember […]
Ten Books That Continued My Education
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share a school freebie this week. I thought about this topic for a few minutes. I’ve been out of school more years than I care to count. But learning never stops, does it? So I decided to share a list of ten books that continued my […]
Weekly Update for August 28, 2022
Welcome to my weekly update for August 28, 2022! Three weeks in a row with no real adventures to report. This must be some sort of record for me! My husband has had to work a lot of call shifts recently so that ties us down within 30 minutes of the hospital. We’ll be out […]
Wild Rover No More by L. A. Meyer: Book Review
3 Stars. I’m still so upset that the last book ended the way it did. I tried to put that behind me, as Jacky herself does, but I’m a world-class grudge-holder. I was mostly able to enjoy this book for itself but I’m still rating it 3 stars instead of the 4 I would probably have given it if that nonsense from book 11 hadn’t […]