I listened to my first audiobook ever this week. I don’t think it will be my last. It was this one: It actually wasn’t my first choice for my first audiobook, a format I’ve resisted for years and have only recently begun to give cautious consideration. I started giving the idea serious thought just a couple of weeks ago, when I accepted the fact that it was unlikely I’d get to re-read Harry Potter and […]
Love Child: A Novel Sheila Kohler Penguin (2011), trade paper (ISBN 9780143119197) Fiction, 256 pages The following review was originally published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (7/1/2011 issue) and is reprinted with permission. Sheila Kohler’s Love Child centers on the theme of domestic complications. This novel packs a lot of story into its pages: Bill is a South African woman in the pre-apartheid years, a relatively recent and relatively young widow with two teenage sons in […]
I stopped using Amazon affiliate links on my blog at the beginning of March after reading that the company was threatening to end their Associates program in California if the state passed a proposed law that would require the company to collect sales tax on sales to California residents. The law would define those contract affiliates as Amazon “workers,” and therefore part of the company’s business operations within the state; state businesses pay state taxes. […]
Everyone else seems to be doing mid-year reflections on their 2011 reading, so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. It’s usually enlightening to see where I’ve been with books for the last six months, consider how that compares to where I thought I’d be, and try to figure out what’s coming next. Crunching the numbers (via LibraryThing) Total books read and reviewed year-to-date: 24 (slightly behind 2010, and including reviews not yet posted here) Fiction: […]
