My mom and I went to see Sarah Addison Allen at Malaprop’s for her First Frost book launch. We’ve seen her several times before and we always enjoy hearing her speak and meeting her. She is just the cutest, sweetest thing you’ve ever met. We got there 30-45 minutes early and the space was filling […]
A list of books my real-life book club read from roughly 2012 – 2014.
Welcome to my weekly update for January 26, 2015! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s been a fairly busy week. My grandmother had back surgery on January 15 and we’ve been trying to make sure someone is with her, temporarily in an assisted living facility for physical therapy, and my […]
Arlene left her hometown of Possett, Alabama after she graduated from high school and never looked back. She has withstood bribery, threats, and guilt trips from hell from her Aunt Florence and remained in Chicago for ten years. But now Alabama seems to have found her. A face from Arlene’s past shows up on her […]
Mary Roach has a gift for making science accessible and–dare I say it?–even funny. In this book, she tackles the digestive system. Covering topics ranging from thorough chewing (as in 700+ chews for One. Freaking. Bite.) to the miraculous properties of spit, from being eaten alive to the possibility (or not) of chewing your way […]
Welcome to my weekly update for January 19, 2015! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted […]
I adore musicals. And that’s probably all I need to write. But here goes. My husband made a point of showing me this trailer a month or so ago (I usually have no idea what’s going on in the movie world). He knew I would be excited by it and I was. Fairy tales, a […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: My Top Ten Books of 2014 2014 Reading by the Numbers Review: The League of Seven by Alan Gratz–4 Stars My sign-up post for the 7 Continents, 7 Billion People, 7 Books Reading Challenge Read: Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger […]
Life as a Journey is hosting the 7 Continents, 7 Billion People, 7 Books challenge 2015. She has asked us to read seven books meeting seven different geographical criteria. A book from…. This should push me out of my comfort zone! I’ll track my progress here. You can find lists and links, as well as […]
It’s 1875 and Archie Dent’s parents belong to The Septemberists, a society dedicated to remembering the damage caused by monsters called the Mangleborn and to preventing them from rising again to destroy civilization. On a routine trip to the Septemberist headquarters, the older Dents are taken over by Manglespawn, children of a Mangleborn, and forced […]
It appears that I didn’t write this recap post last year. What a shame. No one else may be interested but I like looking back over my reading year! The StatsI set my GoodReads goal at 75 books for the year but I finished up with 90. Yay for me! That was largely due to […]