A man leaves his wife and daughter behind to go establish a new life for them in another place. He must learn the ways his of strange new home. I’m so glad Aths recommended this book. I would never have found it on my own. Without writing one word, Shaun Tan tells a detailed story […]
Carina at Reading Through Life has a weekly feature called Reading Roots. Here’s how she describes it: Posted weekly on Tuesdays, Reading Roots features a variety of book bloggers talking about their early reading influences and experiences, letting us catch a glimpse of the “roots” that each person has built upon in forming their identity […]
Today kicks off Book Blogger Appreciation Week, a week all about celebrating the wonderful online community we have created! Book bloggers will be posting about daily topics throughout the week. I don’t know how many I’ll get to, but I’ll try my best. Monday’s prompt is: “Today you are encouraged to highlight a couple of […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I was busy last week and didn’t get to post on Monday. So over the past two weeks I’ve Posted: Review of Fool Moon by Jim Butcher Movie review of The Help Character Connection featuring Francesca Giordano from Poison by Sara […]
This is primarily the story of Anna Karenina’s troubled affair with Alexey Vronsky. It’s also the story of Konstantin Levin’s search for love and truth in society. While reading this book, I kept wishing that I could just read a “good parts version” as William Goldman called The Princess Bride. I kept getting bogged down […]
Weaver Smith is not the main character in A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (known as A Gathering Light to Brits), but he plays a big part. I would say that he’s the faith of the story. Not religious faith, but faith in himself, in his friends, and their talents. Weaver is Mattie Gokey’s best […]
I went to Atlanta over the weekend, primarily to attend the Decatur Book Festival (I intend to write about that later). My husband was an unbelievably good sport and went along with me for the second year in a row. When we went last year, we found out that Dragon*Con is the same weekend in […]
Take Rapunzel and plunk her down smack-dab in the middle of a Louis L’Amour book and you have the gist of this fun graphic novel. The framework of Rapunzel is here. Hungry mom, eager-to-please dad, evil witch, girl with crazy-long hair in a tower. But that’s about where the similarities end. See, Rapunzel doesn’t want […]
Warning! This review will be incredibly long because I find it impossible to review a collection of short stories without reviewing each story. Feel free to move along. Overall, this was not a typical Stephen King short story collection. His short stories generally give me nightmares. There were a few horror stories in here, but […]
Francesca Giordano is the main character in Poison by Sara Poole. I can’t write a better post than what I wrote in my review, so I’m just going to excerpt it here. Francesca was a great character. She’s so very earnest in her narration. Her tone actually reminded me a little of Mary Russell, Sherlock […]
Or, in which I ramble a little about the movie and a lot about conversations with my family. I took my mother and grandmother to see The Help this past Sunday. I read the book in early 2010 and loved it (my review). I bought it for my grandmother for Mother’s Day. She read it […]