Sherry over at Semicolon does a Saturday Review of Books where we can go and post reviews to our book and take a look at the books that other have been reading over the past week. Thanks Sherri! This week I submitted reviews for Peony in Love , The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, and The [...]
Booking Through Thursday: Peer Pressure
Suggested by JM: I was looking through books yesterday at the shops and saw all the Twilight books, which I know basically nothing about. What I do know is that I’m beginning to feel like I’m the *only* person who knows nothing about them. Despite being almost broke and trying to save money, I almost [...]
Reading & Blogging for Darfur
Natasha over at Maw Books Blog is hosting a month long event to raise money and awareness about the genocide happening in Darfur, Sudan. Here is what she has to say about the event: During September every book I read, every post I write, every comment left on this blog, and every book that you [...]
TSS: Bookkeeping ~ August 2008
Today was a good reading day. I spent all of Saturday with housekeeping and doing my hair, and today I got the chance to just relax. I’m hosting a giveway that ends on September 1st, 11:59pm EST. If you’s like to read Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg go here. My review is here. I [...]
Book Bulletin ~ Matrimony, Joshua Henkin
I am about eighty pages into Matrimony by Joshua Henkin and I’m not yet sure how I feel about it. Right now it’s a little loose and it’s just going along; from what I know so far I don’t have a a clue as to what will happen next or how these characters will end [...]
Booking Through Thursday
If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) No … it’s because [...]
Teaser Tuesday ~ August 26
Teaser Tuesdays asks you to: Please avoid spoilers! Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that [...]
Sunday Salon ~ Man Gone Down
Man Gone Down, by Michael Thomas Fiction, 428 pages ~ Trade Paperback Publisher: Black Cat Publication Date: 2007 It seems that I am not destined to be one of the people who loved this book. The New York Times Book Review called it “powerful and moving…an impressive success”, and named it one of the ten [...]
Gratuitous Kitty Post 1.0
CallieOriginally uploaded by NicoleBo Don’t let that innocent face fool you. This girl rules the roost and does whatever to whomever she wants. Whether she’s knocking you over to run out the front door for a stroll or stealing your fried chicken wing and french fries, Callie does it all her way. And you just [...]
I No Longer Take Pictures In Rome
I have been on vacation in Italy for the past three weeks and it has been a wonderful. I have so loved walking around and exploring, seeing the sights and gently absorbing the culture (i.e. eating great food, drinking home made Italian wine, and going for after dinner walks and my evening gelato). I read [...]