At the tender age of 12, Polly Madassa has discovered Jane Austen and fallen hopelessly in love. Convinced that she’s an Austen heroine born in the wrong time, Polly walks around her modern town speaking in Austen’s flowery prose. She’s only read Pride and Prejudice, and so has not learned Emma‘s lesson about meddling. Polly […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. This week I’ve Read: Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, a graphic novel based on the series by Stephen King Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris Fablehaven by Brandon Mull Reviewed: Everlost by Neal Shusterman, […]
The Map of Love tells two stories. Primarily, it is about Anna Winterbourne, living in the early 1900s, and her fascination with Egypt. In the present, Isabel Parkman and Amal al-Ghamrawi have found a trunk of Anna’s journals and letters and set out to piece together her story, while living their own. The writing in […]
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett takes place in the 12th century. Times were tough. One bad summer could wipe out a crop, causing many people to starve. Medicine was for all practical purposes non-existent. Anyone different or new was greeted with deep suspicion. England was on the brink of a civil war. […]
Dempsey Killebrew is having a very bad day. She and her handsome boss, Alex, are all over the evening news, smack in the center of a political scandal. They’re lobbyists accused of buying a Congressman’s votes with a vacation to the Bahamas and, um, hookers. Not the situation that a rising young lawyer wants to […]
Nick and Allie were traveling in opposite directions on a windy mountain road. After a terrible accident, they find themselves traveling down a tunnel toward a light. But they bump into each other again and don’t get where they’re going. Instead, they end up in Everlost, a ghostly realm that co-exists with our world and […]
Welcome to my weekly update for June 6, 2011! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I missed posting last week because of the holiday, so over the past two weeks, I’ve posted […]
4 Stars. I just read Art Spiegelman’s Maus about a month ago and loved it. I thought I would go ahead and give this other highly-acclaimed graphic novel/memoir a try. I enjoyed it, if that’s the correct word, but it didn’t affect me quite the same way Maus did. I’m not too sure why. Maybe it’s because I know more about WWII than […]
Josey Cirrini is one of the main characters in Sarah Addison Allen’s The Sugar Queen. Josey was a little brat as a child. She pitched temper tantrums so epic that the people of her small town are still talking about them now that she’s an adult. And there is Josey’s problem. She’s grown, she’s changed, but no one recognizes […]
These are all the authors who have been kind enough to stop by and guest post about the South. Robin Caroll—Injustice for All Michael Hervey—Soundkeeper Melinda McGuire—Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey Taylor M. Polites—The Rebel Wife Olivia deBelle Byrd—Miss Hildreth Wore Brown Susan Kelly—By Accident Kathryn Lively—Little Flowers I have an affiliate relationship with Malaprop’s, […]
A list of my 2012 book reviews by title.