Adaptation Alert: I believe the title of this posts says it all, Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere are being adapted to screen. Earlier this year, according to Deadline, LD Entertainment optioned the rights for Everything I Never Told You. Currently, Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Moneyball) is set to produce. […]
Tuesday Trailer is a new weekly meme on First Impressions Reviews. To embrace books which are hitting the big screen and share the trailer for the upcoming movie. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a romance/Downton Abbey reunion as it stars Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Penelope Wilton. Netflix recently picked […]
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Tynga’s Reviews,The Book Date Off The Blog I took a very long break from blogging and came back refreshed and ready to start anew. I came back with a few ideas which […]
My To Be Read List is a monthly meme hosted by Michelle at Because Reading. Each month I will make a post with three books from my TBR list. Readers will then vote on which book I should read next. The following Saturday the winning book will be announced. Then on the last Saturday […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: It was a solecism of the worst kind. He sneezed loudly, wetly, and quite unforgivably into the woman’s face. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 People liked to say that the wrong streetsof Acton got the heat of the day and that’s why things were so different […]
Review The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah had languished on my kindle for two years. It mocked me each time I turned on the device to delve into something else. Finally, finally I got around to reading it. The reason I dragged my feet was because after reading one of Kristin Hannah’s earlier novel, Winter Garden […]
I took an extended vacation from blogging this winter. First, I went through a reader’s slump and as this is a book blog, it became a blogging slump. As always Harry Potter got me through my reader’s block but it was not until a few weeks ago, when I read The Princess Bride that my […]
Spring into Horror is hosted by Seasons of Reading and runs for the entire month of April. Participants can read to their heart’s content, however, there is one main “rule” of Spring into Horror which is that you must read at least ONE scary book. My List: As You Wish by Cary Elwes Feet of […]
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Tynga’s Reviews,The Book DateThe Geeky Book Blogger, and That’s What I’m Talking About Last Week on the Blog This Week I Read Books I Acquired Currently Reading Weekly Fitness Report Sunday Walk […]
Review When I started The Girls in the Picture my knowledge of Mary Pickford was slim to none and Frances Marion even less so. Like the women in the novel, I was going into uncharted territory. In the era of #Metoo a novel about women being discriminated against because of their sex and not potential […]