Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
I am a few chapters into The Oregon Experiment, by Keith Scribner and I am really enjoying it so far. It has the complicated characters and rich writing I enjoy when reading. It’s also introducing a pretty unique plot. Naomi used to be a “nose”. The kind whose sense of smell is so acute that [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Alma Katsu, author of the highly anticipated novel The Taker, played along and answered twelve questions. Here is what Alma had to say [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Luanne Rice, whose novel The Silver Boat: A Novel is out today, played along and answered thirteen questions. Here is what Luanne had [...]
I am slowly getting back into reading again. About three weeks ago I went down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a little fun in the sun. Apparently that fun in the sun didn’t include reading any books. Four of them had a round trip ticket from New York to Florida and escaped being opened once, [...]
In a perverse turn of events, I have grown weary of the jacket copy and blurbs on books. I started reading back cover copy the other day in my search for some new books, and rejected every single thing. Every thing seemed “meh”. Every thing seemed like something I had read before, and while surely [...]
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 [...]
I had my January list all ready to go and I am happy to say that I at least made a dent in the books that I targeted to read. I also managed to keep up with reviews, and have them all ready to go soon after I read the book. I always let them [...]
A Few Reading Reflections I have been trying to make some sense out of my reading of the past year, but nothing coherent is coming to mind. Time to go for the tried and true bullet points! This was a really busy year and as can be expected with really busy years, I read less. [...]
I am usually excited about reading my book club’s selections but I was especially happy when I read the back cover of The Kitchen House. It is one of those books that I had heard about without hearing anything about, if you know what I mean. But from what I thought I heard I got [...]
I am still tuckered out from all of the excitement from Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention that I am not ready to talk about all the books I saw and the bloggers I met, so until that time, I will leave you a second installment of some of the books that my [...]