Posted in book love on January 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“have you finished that one yet?” my husband asked, gazing longingly at my copy of Uniform Justice.
“ummm, pretty soon,” i answered, refusing to commit myself. after all, i am reading five books simultaneously.
“well, i don’t have anything good to read right now,” he continued, sounding for all the world like a five year old deprived [...]
Posted in Giveaways, top of the stack on January 30, 2008 | 18 Comments »
some time ago, in one of my midnight strolls through cyberspace, i chanced up a blog called Simply Wait. It’s author, Patry Francis, a cafe waitress cum novelist, wrote about writing, and about having your first book accepted for publication by one of the “big houses.” mostly, though, she wrote about life as a working woman/wife/mother. i started reading Simply [...]
Posted in bookish on January 28, 2008 | 14 Comments »
you might suspect, given my cyber nom de plume, that i read more than what is considered normal, especially in modern society where entertainment tends to be focused on small, glittery electronic gadgets which create all manner of pixelated images and enhanced decibel sounds.
well, you would be absolutely correct in your assumption. given the choice of listening [...]
Posted in Sunday Salon on January 27, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Oh, Good Morning! Hurry in, please, and get out of that pouring rain! Let me take your coat…there’s hot tea brewing, a rooibos blend of jamsine and tropical flavors, and that should warm you up nicely.
I rather like rainy Sunday’s, when the weather gives you permission to linger indoors and savor the morning’s reading. With rain coming [...]
Posted in short story challenge, top of the stack on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“The secret to a happy marriage,” my husband likes to tell me, “is good communication.” I was reminded of his admonition while reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, for many of these characters suffer from a grave inability to communicate.
In this collection of nine elegantly written short stories, I met people like Shoba and Shukumar, a young [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
A homework assignment from the lovely Eva, who created these thought provoking questions.
Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? The DaVinci Code. Books that receive such huge amounts of media attention immediately put me off, particularly those that spawn all sorts of controversy.
If you could bring three [...]
Posted in book love, bookish on January 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »
facing the prospect of three hours imprisonment while being hurtled through the air at 37,000 feet, i’m anxiously pawing through my bookstack this morning, searching for just the right solace to see me through this ordeal.
do you like flying? some people do, you know. while i can’t pretend to enjoy flying, i tolerate it as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I so enjoyed all the visitors to Sunday Salon yesterday - thank you for stopping in and taking a moment to share your reading this week. Isn’t it fun to think of us all in our little corners of the world, reading books together?
When I was very young, perhaps 12 or 13, I became fast friends with a [...]
Posted in Sunday Salon on January 20, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Welcome to Sunday Salon here at Bookstack. Let me pour you some coffee, while you settle into the big armchair by the window - that’s right, just move my little dog aside, she’ll make room for you to snuggle in beside her. The croissants are nearly ready to come out of the oven, and I believe there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Have you noticed the veritable explosion of memoirs about dogs? It would seem everyone has a shaggy dog story to tell, and the reading public seems to be gobbling them up quicker than a retriever can snatch up a bone.
I have a confession to make. I cannot read animal stories. These true tales of “loving and losing” a [...]
