The 11 in 11 Category Challenge is hosted over at LibraryThing in which participants read books from 11 different categories in 2011. 121 books seems inconceivable to me so I modified it to 4 books in 11 categories and it worked perfect for me. Let’s Go To The Movies 1. Harry Potter and the Chamber […]
It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey to recount what has been read the previous week and what you plan to read this week. Read: Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez In The Woods by Tana French (review coming soon) Currently Reading: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley […]
Lizzie, our lead protagonist visits the camp with her master Drayle and looks at this time as a mini-vacation to spend with her friends, Sweet, Reenie and Mawu. Wench was an interesting concept but went absolutely nowhere. The bases of the plot was the girls doing some sort of chore, followed by anal sex and […]
Now, Voyager is a classic novel which was later popularized by the 1942 film starring Bette Davis. I first became antiquated with the novel through the cinema due to my favorite actress being Bette Davis. Therefore, I knew the story going into it but this did not tarnish the novel. The film followed the novel […]
Like most historic events or tragedies, you can remember where you were and what you were doing. I was fourteen at the time so don’t remember exactly that but have a very vivid memory just a few weeks afterward. I was in 8th grade and a boy a class behind mine brought two walkie talkies […]
I really enjoyed Dark Places, it is one of the few books that shows the heroine in a bad light and at times I was so annoyed by her lack of direction that I wanted to throw the book against that wall. But that doesn’t mean I stopped reading it, quite the contrary, I ate […]
Currently Reading: Gone withe the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Books Read: The Luxe by Anna Godbersen Rumors by Anna Godbersen Envy by Anna Godbersen The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket Room by Emma Donoghue Splender by Anna Godbersen Bright Young Things by Anna […]
The High Summer Read-A-Long Hosted at The True Book Addict The High Summer Read-A-Thon is starting today and I am going to begin reading in just a few minutes. The read-a-thon lasts all week (July 25 – 30) I am leaving to go out of town on Thursday so will only be able to participate […]
Rebecca Makkai’s novel was told from the point of view of a librarian — someone who loves books, loves her job and her patrons. and there are book references on every page. Sounds like a book lover’s dream right? Unfortunately, no. Ian Drake is a ten-year old patron of the library whose parents have enrolled […]
What was the first thing I thought of while starting this book, prohibition, flappers, the bob? No, no and no, the first thing that came to mind was Micheal Jackson’s PYT Pretty Young Thing — and I’m not even a fan! Cordelia starts off as a runaway bride from a small town in Ohio who […]