Disclosures: I bought this book for my personal library, and I intend to keep it indefinitely. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Associates account. Still Alice Lisa Genova (blog) Pocket Books, 2009 (paperback) (ISBN 1439102813 / 9781439102817) Fiction, 320 pages First sentence: “Alice sat at her desk in their bedroom, distracted by the sounds of John racing through each of the rooms on the first floor.” Random clip: […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Goldengrove, by Francine Prose Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (RYOB Challenge, Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge) – still reading this weekend to coincide with the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk that my family and I did yesterday, but I plan to finish and review it before the end of this week New […]
Disclosures: I was provided with a paperback copy of this novel for review by the publisher, via TLC Book Tours. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. Goldengrove: A Novel Francine Prose Harper Perennial, 2009 (Paperback) (ISBN 0060560029 / 9780060560027) Fiction, 288 pages First sentence: “We lived on the shore of Mirror Lake, and for many years our lives were as calm and transparent as its waters. […]
If you’re visiting The 3 R’s for the first time via the Sunday Salon feed, welcome, and please take a look around! While you’re here, why not take a few minutes to enter one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways? They’re still open for a few more days – the last day to enter is Wednesday, October 14! Here’s what you could win (you may enter only one giveaway): #1: ARC Fiction Package These Advance […]
Disclosures: I received the paperback edition of this novel for review from the publisher, via LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program. It’s been in bookstores since the Spring of 2009, so this review is far from early. *The purchasing link at the end of the review is through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway Riverhead, 2009 (trade paperback) (ISBN 1594483655 / 9781594483653) Fiction (historical), 256 pages First sentence: “It screamed downward, splitting air […]
I’m excited to be participating in my very first Sunday Salon, after enjoying reading so many other people’s Salon posts for such a long time! If you’re visiting The 3 R’s for the first time via the Salon feed, welcome, and please take a look around! While you’re here, why not take a few minutes to enter one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways? Tuesday Thingers, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner: “Have Your Books Been […]
Lots of things catch my eye as they make their way around the blogiverse, but sometimes it takes me awhile to get around to doing something with them myself. Part of the “assignment” for the final day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week was to consider blogging goals: “Tell us in 50 words or less where you want your blog to be by the next BBAW!” Since it’s no longer BBAW, to heck with the 50-word […]
I received an Advance Reader’s Copy (ARC) of this book for review through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program. The book was published in July 2009 and is currently available in bookstores. The Last Bridge: A Novel Teri Coyne Ballantine Books, 2009 (hardcover) (ISBN 0345507312 / 9780345507310) Fiction, 240 pages First sentence: Two days after my father had a massive stroke my mother shot herself in the head. Book description: After a ten-year absence, Alex ‘Cat’ Rucker […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, by Lizzie Skurnick Next reviews scheduled: Catching up on some outstanding LibraryThing Early Reviewer commitments (which are now not at all early): The Last Bridge, by Teri Coyne The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway Currently reading: Goldengrove: A Novel, by Francine Prose (for an upcoming TLC Book Tour) New to my LibraryThing “To Read” collection: […]
One thing that surprised me when I began reading more and more book blogs is how many bloggers were regularly talking about books classified as “young adult” – and I wasn’t reading book blogs written by teens (although there are plenty of those around). Most of the readers and bloggers were women – some younger than me, some roughly my contemporaries – and many of them didn’t have tween or teen children of their own. […]
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading – A Reading Memoir Lizzie Skurnick (blog) Avon A (HarperCollins), 2009 (paperback original) (ISBN 0061756350 / 9780061756351) Nonfiction/books and reading; 448 pages Opening Lines: “I can’t remember the book that made me into a reader. (God knows this would be a better story if I could!) All I can remember is that first I wasn’t a reader and then, suddenly, I was.” Book description: Remember that […]
This week on Weekly Geeks, Terri asks about reading plans for the rest of the year: It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the last quarter of 2009. Soon those of us in the northern hemisphere will be curled up in front of the fire (or solar heater) with our favorite wintry reads, and those in the southern will be off to the beaches with their summer books. Do you have a plan of what you’re […]
