Each year that I have been blogging, I take a look back at the year’s best and most memorable reads. Sometimes the list is just as I expected it to be, and other times, I am surprised by what still stands out (or doesn’t) after 12 months. Here is my list for 2011. Supernatural Fiction [...]
Odds and Ends – 8/14/11 + BOOK CLUB Giveaway
The first couple weeks of August have come and almost gone. I can hardly believe it. Can we also say bah humbug to scheduled posts being marked “missed schedule”? My absence from the blog was not supposed to be nearly as noticeable as it was. Anyway…I finished 7 books in July. I haven’t read as [...]
Five Books I’m Thrilled Were Recommended To Me…And Would Recommend In A Heartbeat, To You
This week the wonderful women at The Broke and The Bookish want to know all about the books that I am glad came to me as recommendations. I thought this was going to be a hard one for me, since I am usually the one who is recommending books, but once I got going, it [...]
On My Shelves: New Book Releases – March 27 – April 2, 2011
On My Shelves The Provence Cure For The Broken-Hearted: A Novel, by Bridget Asher Galore: A Novel, by Michael Crummey Wishlist Blind Sight: A Novel, by Meg Howrey The Girl Who Would Speak For The Dead, by Paul Elwork Expiration Date: A Novel, by Sherril Jaffe
On My Shelves: New Book Releases – March 13 – March 26, 2011
On My Shelves The Raising: A Novel, by Laura Kasischke Seven Years: A Novel, by Peter Stamm My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, by Cindy Jones Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano On My Wishlist Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason, by Anne Roiphe Every Day By [...]
On My Shelves: New Book Releases – March 6 – March 12, 2011
On My Shelves Satori, by Don Winslow Wishlist The Complaints, by Ian Rankin The Altar of the Bones: A Novel, by Philip Carter The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel, by Téa Obreht
On My Shelves: New Book Releases – February 27 – March 5, 2011
On My Shelves Dark Mirror: A Novel, by M.J. Putney – I read Dark Mirror a few weeks ago and I found it to be very enjoyable. It’s the first in a series, but even though you can see that there can be more to the story, it works very well by itself. I Am [...]
Wishlist: February 2011
In typical avid reader style, my eyes are bigger than my stomach and though my stacks are stuffed to the gills with books I want to read, there are still more that have managed to catch my attention. Are you planning on reading any of these? Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, by [...]
On My Shelves: New Book Releases – February 16 to 28, 2011
Hardcover Releases And I Shall Have Some Peace Here: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, by Margaret Roach – February 23, 2011 Paperback Releases The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, by Heidi Durrow – February 16, 2011
Most Memorable Reads of 2010
Last year instead of sharing my favorite reads, I shared my most memorable ones and I am doing the same thing for this past year. It’s odd, but sometimes the books that I loved reading are not the ones that stay with me for the long haul. Who can explain or know what has staying [...]
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