Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
read_warbler (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I'm falling behind with book reviews once again. So, as my cold is making me feel thoroughly unenthused about anything other than sitting in a chair and reading, I think I'll do two shortish reviews to catch up. First up, The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill. 'Oliver' is staying in rooms at his old university in Cambridge, during school holidays, so that he can visit and spend time with his old professor,...
The Bookling (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
I am really not sure what is going on with my reading/blogging this month. In September I read just five books and wrote only ONE post. This must be a record low for me and I honestly feel guilty that Book Aid International will only get £5 from me this time around. I have however just had a slightly naughty splurge at Amazon so I now have a toppling stack of books waiting to be read and hopefully...
read_warbler (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
A cup of tea A quiet nook A cookie and A picture book A lump of sugar On my spoon - Now that's a perfect afternoon. ~~Eileen Spinelli~~ Sounds good to me... well maybe not the lump of sugar and I'm about to start The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield rather than a picture book... but still the essence of a nice quiet afternoon is in those words. Our grandson is spending the night with us tonight...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
For the second of my BBAW giveaways last week, I asked entrants to answer the following as part of their entry to win one of two mystery titles: What is the best mystery you've read this year? Since I thought some of you might be interested as well, here is a list of the titles that were mentioned in the comments on the giveaway post. The first three were mentioned more than once so I've put them in...
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield Reviewed by Mary from Pullman, WA.
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Friday Finds is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading . Here are some of my finds from the past few weeks: The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker - This was a favorite of Jenners at Find Your Next Book Here . She says that it's a funny book that is "ridiculously focused on the small oddities of life" and that it was like an episode of Seinfeld . Time Switch by Matt Chamings - I had to add this one...
Beth Groundwater (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
I had my monthly meeting with my in-person Book Club tonight, and came home feeling grateful yet again for the company of these lovely women who enjoy reading good books as much as I do. We meet in members' homes once a month to discuss books, neighborhood gossip, and important events in our lives while we sip on wine and nibble on treats provided by the hostess. This group has introduced me to many...
Melissa in a Market Town (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
I love Gothic novels. Since Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto in 1764, other writers have been emulating a version of this romantic terror from behind heavy castle doors a million miles from the normal world. A parallel world where Byronic heroes, manwomen in attics, monsters, angels, sirens and vampires replace stock characters of the realist novel. I remember visiting the Bronte Parsonage,...
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Michael Bhaskar writes on the Picador blog: "As someone new to crime I have been by turns shocked, amused, gripped, repelled, absorbed and scared witless. Oh, and loved every minute of it. What is it about murders most horrid, alkie loner detectives and and the police procedural that so appeals?" Michael wonders why crime fiction appeals "even as it shocks". Torture, blood - since...
Here There and Everywhere (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. [...]
memoirs on a rainy day (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
March reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini Brick Lane by Monica Ali Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Cosmos Incorporated by Maurice Dantec February reading Seven Silent Men by Noel Behn The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Human Stain by Philip Roth The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [due to become a Peter Jackson movie] January reading Final Account by Peter Robinson The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev...
memoirs on a rainy day (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
March reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini Brick Lane by Monica Ali Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood February reading Seven Silent Men by Noel Behn The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Human Stain by Philip Roth The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [due to become a Peter Jackson movie] January reading Final Account by Peter Robinson The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt Samarcande...
In this life (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
My third blog-birthday passed the other day, without my realising it. I've been rereading "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield - it's nonsense, really, but very good nonsense and I'm enjoying it a lot. This is a quote from it, and it expresses very well one of the reasons why I like writing: letters, diaries, the blog. In case you haven't read it (and I recommend that you do) you need...
memoirs on a rainy day (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
February reading Seven Silent Men by Noel Behn The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Human Stain by Philip Roth The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [due to become a Peter Jackson movie] January reading Final Account by Peter Robinson The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt Samarcande by Amin Maalouf Devil’s Claw by J.A. Jance Pilgrim by Timothy Findley Water for Elephants by [...]...
Videos