Anne Rice Challenge hosted by The Towering Pile Rules: Ebooks are fine. Audiobooks are fine as long as they are the unabridged versions. Rereads and crossovers with other challenges are fine. You can change your level at any time. The challenge goes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012. If you read, for example, the […]
At the end of The Voice on the Radio Reeve’s lawyer sister Lizzie divulges that Hannah died five years ago. So really, I’d like to know who is receiving these checks. Anyway, why wouldn’t Reeve just tell Janie this and save them all the trouble. I know why, because a) Janie wouldn’t listen and b) […]
The Voice on the Radio could have come off like a rehash of The Face on the Milk Carton, but it didn’t, I was riveted once again. Janie’s story was told in a new refreshing voice as fascinating as it was the first time. Although, I had a hard time getting past what a prick […]
The Springs, are decent people who had the worst luck fall upon them, obviously after hearing their daughter is alive and well welcome her back with open arms. Unfortunately, Janie is unwilling to accept these changes and chooses to live in her seemingly perfect past. Most of the story revolves around Janie’s adjustment, and whenever […]
The Buddha in the Attic was an interesting plot in theory but felt like the story was told in fragments almost as if the narrator forgot what they were going to say and just trailed off. I think the part that bothered me about this novel is that there was no designated main character […]
Currently Reading: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Read: The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris Challenges Joined: The Christmas Spirit E-Book Harry Potter Narnia Classics Young Adult Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address […]
Its that time of year, not for Cyber Monday but for reading challenges. I’ve already signed up for a few myself but have been waiting diligently for a classics challenge, and as luck would have it I found not one but two! A Classics Challenge Hosted by Kathrine at November’s Autumn For this challenge the […]
David Sedaris’ Christmas stories have me torn. My favorite of the six short stories is his retelling of his holiday job as Santa’s Elf. He turns a humiliating job into well, not so humiliating. Sedaris recounts the beauty of people watching. The various Santas and their different approaches with the anticipated children and the parents […]
I’d Know You Anywhere is a chilling tale I could not turn away from. It was disturbing and vulnerable all at once — I didn’t realize that could be possible. The characters are well developed with their personality traits invoking the proper emotion appropriate for the subject matter at hand, bring the novel to life. […]
E-Book Challenge Hosted by Workaday Reads Challenge Guidelines: This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 – Dec 31, 2012. Anyone can join, you don’t need to be a blogger. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to sign-up in the comments. You can post reviews to any book site (i.e. Amazon, Barnes and […]