PETRONA (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
I have been unavoidably away from blogging and the Internet for a few days -- the past couple of posts were by courtesy of the advance timer button -- but now I am back. Back, in fact, with a post...
tea stains (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Ooooh, I’ve been book shopping. I wiped out the knowledge of my towering ‘To Be Read’ pile at home and bought some more. (I was in Asia Books this time (not Kinokuniya) and they had an offer of ‘buy three get a fourth free’ – so really who could resist') I’ve bought: My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons I bought this because it's about an expat family in Shanghai. (Research, you see! Know your market:...
Between the Covers (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
The TBR Challenge is progressing nicely and the 888 Challenge is in the hands of fate and the council library, so I’m signing up for a third! I’ve had my eye on this one since before the Bookfest, but didn’t have a sufficient number of suitably enormous books on hand. Which isn’t the case anymore. (Buy doorstopper-size books just for a challenge? Who, me?) Post-Bookfest I have more...
Ace and Hoser Blook (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
I read 68 books in 2007, which is 20 less than I read in 2006 (probably due to school). The books I read this past year were much higher quality than in 2006, and there were only 5 books that I couldn't finish. Here are my best reads of the year (in no order): 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Fiction) 2. Ice Bound - Jerri Nielson (Non-Fiction) 3. The PuzzleBark Tree - Stephanie Gertler...
U Krakovianki (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
I may get another book (or even two) finished before the year is complete, but if I do, I will simply edit this post. As it stands now, I completed 58 book in 2007, which I have listed here in roughly chronological order. Of the 58, only 10 were non-fiction, and of those 10, nine of them were at least partially biographical in nature. However, I also have three books on my "still in progress" list...
Framed and Booked (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
It's time to make my second list for the TBR Challenge hosted by Mizbooks . I like this challenge as the rules are quite simple. Choose twelve books that have been on your TBR list for some time and get them read sometime between January 1 and December 31. Click on the link to join and to learn all the rules. Here's my list of twelve plus the twelve allowed alternatives: 1. The Surgoen by Tess Garritsen...
U Krakovianki (Free subscription) | 12/16/2007
That would be my own personal list of top ten favorite books I read in 2007. This should be understood from the beginning to be a reflection of the connection between reader (me) and book at a given moment, and not a reflection on the merit of any book. I just started looking over my reading for 2007, so this is the preliminary round, and I will narrow this down to just ten favorites, but I will be...
Ask Moxie (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Book review of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I don't read enough fiction these days. Between the kids, work, this site, knitting projects for Christmas, and 8 million other things, I pretty much only have time for non-fiction, with...
The Daily Bitch (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
"A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth." Vida Winter When I was given a brief synopsis of this book, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, I immediately signed on; it sounded right up my alley. It's a story about a story, filled with half-truths, secrets, mysteries and scandal. LOTS of scandal. Definitely my kind of book. Conjoined twins, feral twins, death and sex and...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
The Ghost at the Table, by Suzanne Berne (Penguin £7.99)
pages turned (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
Pages Turned turns three today (and I'm, well, at least a few years older than that). And what better way to celebrate a book blog(ger)'s birthday than with a great number of books, a great number of books that the blogger would never have acquired if not for the online book community? Take a look at the books that have come into the house over the last month. (Ellie, please move; people want to see...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
Nora Roberts received the top honor -- Book of the Year -- at the Quill Book Awards ceremony Monday for her novel, "Angels Fall." Readers had selected her book in online voting from among the contest's category winners. The book had won as best romance.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
Best-selling author won book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards, which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best-selling author Nora Roberts won book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards, which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore will receive a second Quill award on Monday at the third annual event that was created to bring glamour and Oscar-style red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.
