It’s the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon‘s first mini-challenge is a best of post Here’s how it will work: There are four categories – best reviews, best book discussion posts, best blog design/layout and best random category (which you get to make up!). My random category is best new to me blogs. Anyway, this was tough and while I love all the blogs I read here […]
The Book Blogger Love-a-Thon has barely even start and I’m already loving it! Earlier this week I had the pleasure of swaping interviews with the lovely Andrea at The Overstuffed Bookshelf. When and why did you start your blog? I started The Overstuffed Bookcase on January 14, 2012. I had a personal blog before that […]
I usually don’t go for books that involve terrorist bombs I find them overdone; and usually once I see those two words on the back cover I set them down. But for some reason I decided to keep My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in my hand. Rose was killed in a mass bombing when […]
The Classics Club monthly meme is another way to bring members of The Classics Club together. The post for the month will go up on the main page of this blog on the 2nd of the month, and you’ll have all month to respond over at your blog. Q: “What classic has most surprised you so far, […]
I should probably prefix this review by saying I had brain surgery when I was a teenager due to uncontrolled epilepsy so when going into a book about a teen girl who had epilepsy having the two hemispheres severed because of said condition, I knew I was bound to critique and be realistically critical. And I was. […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish 1. Hermione Granger: She is the brightest witch of her time and proves that books are cool! 2. Matilda: Her love of reading kept her one step ahead of her dense family and is just awesome. 3. Atticus Finch: He is so elegent with words and leveled-headed; all due […]
The Classic Club has announced its Classic Spin Number 14 When I was eleven The Sound of Music was one of my favorite movies (although I always liked the first half better Nazis are scary). But I have always heard the that true Sound of Music story was much different and wasn’t always about te […]
Allie at A Literary Odyssey is hosting A Modern March an event to explore the Modernist era of literature. I honestly know next to zill on this period so it will definatly be a learning experience for me. For dunces like me, this is how Allie has descibed this movement: “If you have no idea […]
By the Shores of Silver Lake is a much more mature novel in comparison to the series thus far. Hardship has befallen Plum Creek. It is addressed right away that the Ingalls have suffered through Scarlet Fever with Mary becoming blind as a resolute. Also, even though it is not mentioned, in the gap between […]
The Classic Club is hosting a mini reading challenge, entitled The Classic Spin. For the Spin I (and any other joiners) choose and number twenty books from their classics list and post it on their blog. The hosts will pick a number at random and I will read the book that corresponds with that number. […]