The Society of S is about Ariella Montero, a very sheltered, educated 13-year-old growing up in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her father is a brilliant, handsome, reclusive research scientist who is home-schooling Ari and raising her alone. Ari’s mother left them immediately after Ari’s birth. Their Victorian mansion is full of secrets that Ari decides to […]
Not to my little corner of the interwebs, but to my town! And maybe your town! My reaction when I stumbled across this little nugget last night as I was looking at the Malaprops website: “Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh! Neil Gaiman is coming!!!” Husband, nicely doing dishes as I finish a blog post: “What? I can’t hear you.” […]
5 Stars. I read the first chapter of Daytripper and was completely taken aback. I was in the mood for some graphic novels and I had just grabbed whatever looked promising at my local library. I had never heard of this book and I didn’t read the synopsis too closely but it still caught my eye. When […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 20, 2012! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 13, 2012! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
I started getting my blogging life back in order last week. Thank goodness! I’m not terribly active in the community because of time constraints, but I still missed the interaction I do have! Posted […]
If I had read these books when I was the right age, they would probably have gotten 4 or 5 stars, but I’m a little too old for them now. These are 4 novels about Alanna of Trebond, a girl who wants to be a knight. Unfortunately, the last female knight in her country lived […]
In the small town of Pico Mundo, an unassuming fry cook by the outlandish name of Odd Thomas has a special ability; he can see the dead. They can’t speak to him but they have their own ways of communicating. After the murder of a small boy, Odd sees his spirit wandering around. It’s obvious […]
Marie Tussaud, or Grosholtz as she is named throughout most of the book, was in an ideal position to narrate a history of the French Revolution. A foreign-born commoner, she was neither part of the nobility nor of the starving peasants. She and her family owned, designed and operated the wax museum that has become […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
I have been AWOL for a while now, but I’m going to grab this opportunity to try to jump back into my blogging routine, such as it is. Here’s what’s happened since my last Monday post on July 8. Posted […]
CeeCee Honeycutt. Bless her heart. She’s only twelve years old and her Mama’s crazy as a bedbug. She runs around town in old pageant dresses and tiaras, making a laughingstock of herself. She’s living in 1951 when she was the Vidalia Onion Queen and isn’t taking care of her daughter; CeeCee is the caregiver in […]
Holy cow. It has been three weeks since I last posted. Three weeks! Where does the time go? I’ve been desperately juggling a lot of things for a while now and I just finally hit critical capacity. My blog had to go neglected. I accepted a new position at work as a “Clinical Research Coordinator.” […]