Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Ten years ago my only son moved away, leaving behind an extremely bereft pair of parents.
However, he also left behind an empty room. After a few weeks of moping, it occurred to me that creating a reading room of my own could be very helpful in easing the pain of an empty nest.
With a fresh coat of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
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that’s the sound of me, blowing dust off the top of this poor neglected Bookstack.
real life has a way of intruding into even the most ravenous reader’s imagination, and mine has been a bit withered these past days. i can’t really blame it on the heat, for our weather here has been sublime. perhaps the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | 15 Comments »
I confess…sometimes I take my reading a bit too seriously. I have this feeling that everything I read must be edifying or enlightening or educational or inspirational. But every so often a book finds its way to the top of my stack that’s really none of those things.
It’s simply entertaining.
And with a subtitle like this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | 10 Comments »
It’s been a rather lackluster reading week, dear friends, which explains my absence from these pages. I did complete a review book for Curled Up With A Good Book, although I’ve yet to write the review. And I certainly have no dearth of books from which to choose my next read. Yet none of them seems [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mizbooks has invited us to share books we’ve come across this week that sounded really good, and since there’s never a lack of those for me, I’m happy to oblige.
Just this morning at breakfast I was reading the latest issue of Bookmarks magazine and found a review of this novel - Fall of Frost, by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Oh, to be a girl again and be preoccupied with girlish things … the right shade of lipgloss, the perfect pair of platform shoes, a special date for the dance and a sparkly new dress to wear, the heady anticipation of that first kiss, and the second or third….
Alas, the ravenous reader is no longer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Booking Through Thursday asks:
Think about your favorite authors, your favorite books . . . what is it about them that makes you love them above all the other authors you’ve read? The stories? The characters? The way they appear to relish the taste of words on the tongue? The way they’re unafraid to show the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Oh, I’ve been so lucky lately, for books have been raining down upon me!
Last week I received two books to review, a perfect pairing actually - Dedication, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicoal Kraus, and Rules for Saying Goodbye, by Katherine Taylor, both tales of the lives and loves of women in their twenties and thirties. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been sitting here in my comfy chair for perhaps an hour or more, the windows thrown wide allowing cool evening breezes to sweep through the room, ceiling fan whirring overhead circulating the air. Dusk has given way to darkness, and thunder has been rumbling sulkily in the distance for some time. Come in quickly before [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Booking Through Thursday asks: A combo of two suggestions by: Heidi and by litlove
Have you ever been a member of a book club? How did your group choose (or, if you haven’t been, what do you think is the best way to choose) the next book and who would lead discussion?
Do you feel more or less likely to [...]
