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A long, long time ago Avis of She Reads and Reads tagged me for the book edition of the seven random facts meme. I’m just now getting this up. (Bad me!) Click here to read her post. Here are seven random book-related facts about me: I currently have about 450 books stashed around my apartment. [...]
Most Read Post The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Warner Chandler Most Read Non-Review Post Mailbox Monday 5 Most Read Reviews The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Warner Chandler The Jewel Trader of Pegu: A Novel by Jeffrey Hantover In The Woods, by Tana French Testimony, by Anita Shreve Foe, by J.M. Coetzee I was a little [...]
Sherry over at Semicolon does a Saturday Review of Books where we can go and post our reviews from the past week and read other's reviews as well. Such a great idea. Thanks Sherri! This week I submitted reviews for Silas Marner , In The Woods and The Jewel Trader of Pegu: A Novel ; and not [...]
I could have sworn that I had participated in Friday Finds before, but then I didn’t have the image for it in my files or the category listed in my blog, so maybe not. This looks good.
Silas Marner, by George Eliot Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication Date: April 29, 2003 Original Publication Date: April 1861 Format: Trade Paperback, 272 Pages Ah! A golden oldy from the shelves. I have had Silas Marner for so long that I don’t even remember how I first came to pick it up. Was it for an [...]
In The Woods, by Tana French Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: May 27, 2008 Format: Trade Paperback, 429 pages Part mystery and part detailed character sketch and psychological portrait, In The Woods is a riveting and enjoyable read throughout. Three children disappear in the woods near their home in Dublin, Ireland in 1984, and later, [...]
How do you feel about wide-spread reading phenomenons – Harry Potter, for instance, or the more current Twilight Saga? Are these books so widely read for a reason, or merely fads or crazes? Do you feel compelled to read – or NOT to read – these books because everyone else is? I don’t really feel [...]
The Faith of Barack Obama, by Stephen Mansfield The American Journey of Barack Obama, by The Editors of Life Magazine The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann How We Decide, by Jonah Leher The Beautiful Cigar Girl- Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of [...]
The Jewel Trader of Pegu: A Novel, Jeffrey Hantover Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: January 2, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 227 pages The Jewel Trader of Pegu is a delightfully descriptive and gently observed novel by Jeffrey Hantover. Told in epistolary fashion, The Jewel Trader of Pegu follows the journey of 16th century jeweler Abraham. Abraham [...]
I work in the Corporate Offices of an international retail company and we have board meetings six times a year. I’m in the midst one of those periods, and for two weeks it’s ALL work all the time, weekends included. The good news is the two week started last week and I was able to [...]
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