Yesterday was the “official” BBAW Reading Meme Day, so I’m late, but I didn’t want to miss out completely. The BBAW Blog has a list of short-answer questions for participants to answer if they choose, but I’m going be different as well as late; I’m responding to another meme entirely, but it does concern reading and blogging, so I’m counting it anyway. Many book bloggers have already addressed the questions raised by author Shannon Hale […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report (hey, check out the new badge!*) Book reviews posted this week: “Gone to the Dogs” with – The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan Next review scheduled (after BBAW): Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, by Lizzie Skurnick (blog) Currently reading: The Last Bridge, by Teri Coyne (for LibraryThing Early […]
Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog John Grogan (blog) Harper, 2008 (paperback) (ISBN 0060817089 / 9780060817084) Memoir, 320 pages First sentence: In the summer of 1967, when I was ten years old, my father gave in to my persistent pleas and took me to get my own dog. (from the Preface) Book description: John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a […]
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Garth Stein Harper, 2009 (paperback) (ISBN 0061537969 / 9780061537967) Fiction, 336 pages First sentence: Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. Book description: Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report My Question of the Week, as asked on Twitter this past Tuesday: Will I get blackballed from the book-blogging community because I haven’t read The Hunger Games and sat out the release-day hoopla for Catching Fire this week? Seriously, someone tell me it’s OK. I need to know. ** Actually, I don’t need to know any more…I ordered them both on Wednesday. I still have no idea how soon I’ll […]
This review is based on an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) provided by the publisher via Trish at TLC Book Tours. I received no other compensation. The book is currently available in stores. The Weight of Silence: A Novel Heather Gudenkauf Mira Books, 2009 (paperback original) (ISBN 077832740X / 9780778327400) Fiction, 384 pages (Visit the book’s website and click “preview the book” to see the first 19 pages.) First sentence: “Louis and I see you nearly […]
UPDATED 3/1/10: I am not an especially fast reader, and I have a family, a full-time job, and other responsibilities unrelated to book blogging. In order to fulfill the review obligations I already have pending, I will only accept a limited number of new review offers – please read on to find out more about the sort of books I’ll consider accepting. Thank you for your understanding. My goal is to post book reviews here […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report By the Numbers: Book reviews posted in 2009 so far: 28 Books read for the RYOB 2009 Challenge: 12 (goal is 20) Books received for review in 2009, to date: 30 Books acquired in 2009, to date, from all sources: 97 (!) (Evidently, receiving review copies of books is not having the slightest detrimental effect on my book-purchasing habits!) Books in the LibraryThing “To Read” collection: 229 (That number is […]
This Weekly Geeks assignment definitely hit close to home. Ruth asked: I think just about every reader has a least one book that they’ve been meaning to read for awhile (months or even years) but, for one reason or another, they just haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe it’s a book a friend recommended last year, or a title you’ve flirted with in a bookstore on more than one occasion, or maybe it’s a book […]
Following up the “15 Books That Will Always Stick With You” meme (I posted mine in a TBIF/Booking Through Thursday response in June), it’s time to go to the movies! The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you’ve seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Both my husband and my sister tagged me for this on Facebook, but they […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted: Admission, by Jean Hanff Korelitz Currently reading/Upcoming reviews: The Weight of Silence: A Novel, by Heather Gudenkauf (for TLC Book Tours, scheduled for September 1) Teaser: “Petra was explaining to Fielda and me how their first grade classroom conducted experiments on how far those little plastic sports cars, Hot Wheels, I think they are called, could travel, when we came across the Clark family huddled in a […]
This is the first book I read on my Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and counts for the Read Your Own Books (RYOB) 2009 Challenge.AdmissionJean Hanff Korelitz book data via LibraryThing:Grand Central Publishing (2009), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 464 pagesISBN: 0446540706 / 9780446540704 Kindle edition data via Amazon.com:File Size: 750 KBASIN: B0026772YM First sentence: “The flight from Newark to Hartford took no more than fifty-eight minutes, but she still managed to get her heart broken three […]
