Welcome to my weekly update for January 21, 2013! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Readers’ Workouts–My weight loss story The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall: Review Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel […]
A successful WWII columnist, Juliet Ashton, has just published a collection of her popular wartime columns. But now she’s looking to write a “meatier” book, she just can’t find a topic she wants to live with throughout years of research. Then she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a native of Guernsey. He shares with […]
Tomasu is out wandering the mountains where his village is located, as he has countless times before, but this time when he comes back, a warlord has destroyed it and apparently killed all the inhabitants. Tomasu makes his escape after embarrassing the warlord and earning his eternal enmity. A kind stranger on the trail Tomasu […]
4 Stars. I just love the Penderwicks. They are all so cute! Rosalind feels older than twelve, but in her circumstances, I think that’s right. She’s stepped up to be a mother figure to the younger children. Skye is so abrasive and intelligent, Jane is so dreamy and unintentionally funny, and young Batty is just adorable. I love […]
A list of my 2013 book reviews by rating.
A list of my 2013 book reviews by author.
A list of my 2013 book reviews by title.
Welcome to my weekly update for January 14, 2013! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Songs of Love & Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois […]
4 Stars. As with almost any anthology, there were stories that I loved and some that just didn’t do anything for me. I was a little afraid that it would start to get depressing (star-crossed love just doesn’t sound happy, now does it?) but there was a good balance of happy and sad endings. Favorite story: “Hurt Me” by […]
4 Stars. I loved this book. I met author Pamela Duncan at a book festival a few years ago and just chattered away at her. I never do that. I’m usually all tongue-tied at author signings and rarely get out more than “Please” and “Thank you.” But it just felt like she was one of my kind of people and so I rattled on while she […]
Rose City Reader is hosting the 2013 European Reading Challenge again this year and I’m signing up. I intend to do much better on my own Books in Translation Reading Challenge again this year, so that should help me with this challenge as well. Rose City Reader says, The idea is to read books by […]