I should know better, and yet every now and then I attempt it anyway. I’m currently reading polygamously – I have three books going at once. Technically, it’s four books, since one of them is a special edition containing two novels, but I’ve finished one of the stories in it; however, I won’t review that one until I finish the book itself. (I’m being a stickler, despite the fact that it may mean I won’t […]
Disclosures: I received this book for review from the publisher via TLC Book Tours; no additional compensation was offered to me, or accepted by me. *The purchasing link at the end of this review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir John Grogan (blog) Harper (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0061713309 / 9780061713309) Nonfiction/memoir, 352 pages Opening Lines: “The call came on a school night in the autumn of 2002. Jenny was […]
I just looked at the calendar, and there are not quite eight weeks left in 2009 (!). Soon I’ll be putting together my Books of the Year picks and my Year in Review posts. It may be a little more challenging this year. I’ve read more books than the 35 I managed last year (yay!), and I’m pretty sure I’ll knock out a few more before the end of December. But I’ve also read quite […]
Disclosures: I purchased these books for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2008), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023483 / 9780439023481) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023491 / 9780439023498) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Opening lines: “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, […]
It’s a reading challenge that was born on Twitter, in a comment Eva made after finishing a book last week: someone should start a “women’s studies” reading challenge. As tends to happen, book bloggers jumped in and out of the discussion, and within a few hours, a name, a hashtag, and a challenge blog were launched: Women Unbound! Full disclosure, as mentioned in the “Community Credit” item on the blog’s sidebar – I was part […]
Disclosures: I bought this book for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. Love the One You’re With Emily Giffin St. Martin’s Griffin (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0312348673 / 9780312348670) Fiction, 368 pages Opening Lines: “It happened exactly one hundred days after I married Andy, almost to the minute of our half-past-three-o’clock ceremony. I know this fact not so much because I was an overeager […]
The Salon is on the short side this week – I think I’ve been in Readathon Recovery mode for most of it! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: The Possibility of Everything, by Hope Edelman Next reviews scheduled: Love the One You’re With, by Emily Giffin The Hunger Games/Catching Fire (dual review), by Suzanne Collins Currently reading: The Longest Trip Home, by John Grogan (TLC Book Tour stop scheduled for November […]
I didn’t get the opportunity to post my response to last week’s Weekly Geeks query, but since there wasn’t a new one for this week – WG took the week off to observe Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon this past Saturday – I’m squeezing it in before the next theme goes up this coming weekend! Last week, Ruth asked about Tools of the Trade: Book blogging, as a concept, is essentially pretty simple: If you have Internet […]
Disclosures: This is a review of an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) requested and received directly from the publisher. The book became available in stores at the end of September 2009. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Possibility of Everything: A Memoir by Hope Edelman (blog) Ballantine Books, 2009 (Hardcover) (ISBN 0345506502 / 9780345506504) Memoir, 352 pages First sentence: “A ragged, mostly dirt road twists through […]
I’m starting to understand how book bloggers get pulled into these reading challenges, although I’ve held out against them pretty well. I’ve only signed up for two so far, and they’ve both been targeted at trying to thin the TBR herd. But here comes another that will not only add to the stacks – it’s going to add books that I’ve already read! Granted, I last read them over 25 years ago, but it will […]
See below for my final Read-a-thon Update! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (this post includes a guest review from my sister) Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) New to my LibraryThing “To Read” collection: for me, from the “biography and memoir” section: Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life, by Quinn Cummings Manhood […]
There’s a 24 Hour Read-a-thon going on tomorrow, starting at 5 AM Pacific time. (On Saturday?! Oh, what the heck, I get up at 4:30 most mornings anyway.) I have the day off from work today to get some chores and errands out of the way before the event gets started, and another vacation day on Monday for additional recovery time! I posted my prospective reading list in my Sunday Salon post earlier this week. […]
