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Drood, by Dan Simmons Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: February 9, 2009 Format: Paperback ARC, 784 pages In June of 1865, Charles Dickens is involved in a train accident while traveling with his secret mistress and her mother. While he helps minister to the injured, he meets a mysterious man who only goes [...]
To what came in other mailboxes and to play along visit Marcia at The Printed Page. Here is what came in my mailbox last week: The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer. I’ve had my eye on this for awhile and I can’t wait to read it. Last year I read The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer [...]
I don’t know how hopeful I am about the reading that I am intending to do today or this week. Most of the month of January and February I spent my free time in the evening and on the weekends searching for an apartment, and now I can no longer put off the fact that [...]
Here’s a list of what’s going on my wish list this week. This week’s list is massive just because I haven’t been able to do this in so long. I had a lot of good stuff that I had been making notes on. It’s like my own mini-blog carnival. A Country Called Home, by Kim [...]
The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James Publisher: Riverhead Books Publication Date: February 19, 2009 Format: ARC, 432 pages I didn’t mean to start reading this book when I first picked it up. I was intending to flip through it, read a page or two as a preview and then move on to the [...]
I love reading about food in books. I like to cook and I love to eat even more. So on Friday’s I’ll be sharing the culinary delights that I have come across in my reading. What better way to start off the weekend than thinking about good food in a good book. “That night she [...]
For this week’s edition of Weekly Geeks, we’re going to take a closer look at character names. What are some of your favorite character names? Go to Google or a baby name site like this one or this one, and look up a favorite character’s name. What does their name mean? Do you think the [...]
This week’s question is suggested by Kat: I recently got new bookshelves for my room, and I’m just loving them. Spent the afternoon putting up my books and sharing it on my blog . One of my friends asked a question and I thought it would be a great BTT question. So from Tina & [...]
Kathy over at Bermudaonion is the host of Wondrous Words, a fun and educational new meme where we list all the words that had us stumped over the last week of reading. I had several pages floating around out there, but of course today the only one I can find is the one from taking [...]
The Heretic’s Daughter, by Kathleen Kent Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: September 3, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Nine-year-old Sarah Carrier has moved with her family from Billerica to Andover, Massachusetts. She travels with her parents, three older brothers and baby sister bringing smallpox to the small and devout town where her mother [...]