I think there may have been a time, long before my blogging days, when my reading did follow seasonal patterns; winter books tended to be more substantive, while summer reads were lighter–kind of like seasonal eating, I suppose, or tracking along with the school calendar. I don’t really see that happening any more, and while I suppose it’s possible that things shifted because I no longer live in a place that has well-defined seasons, I don’t think that’s […]
Today in “A Month of Favorites” A Year in Books Timeline {Which month did you … read the most, the least, read the book you liked LEAST for the year, read your longest book, tried a new genre, fell hard for a book boyfriend, re-read a favorite, finished an epic series, read something you’ve been wanting to read for a long time etc. } – link-up hosted at Traveling with T When did I read […]
All December-long, Estella’s Revenge, Girlxoxo, and Traveling with T are sharing their fave bookish (and sometimes non-bookish) experiences from the past year, and everyone’s invited to join the party! There are daily posting/link-up topics, but since I won’t be posting every day, I’ll be picking and choosing and combining them. In a nod to Andi’s motto, let’s call it free-range blogging. Topics for Week 1: 1 – Faves Month Introduction – link-up hosted at Girlxoxo 2 – 5 Faves by […]
Earlier today, I declared my serious intentions to get a bunch of books out of my house by creating an event on Facebook. I’m repeating myself here, but you can find more details there. I’m clearing my shelves of books I’ll only read once–and books I’ll probably never read at all. FREE for the taking–paperbacks, hardcovers, and galleys in a variety of genres and styles (mostly for adult readers, but there may be a few kids’ […]
…and yet, I keep adding to the stacks. For those of you who are interested in that sort of thing, the current count of inmates in TBR Purgatory stands at 517. I think that number is overstated, to be honest, because I’m reasonably certain I’ve purged some books without taking them out of my LibraryThing catalog…but I can’t say exactly how overstated it might be. One of these days (it may require two, or even […]
Image via Wikipedia Too late for summertime reading, you say? The calendar says that mid-August is weeks away from being the end of summer, and in Southern California, it can be “beach season” all year long. Besides, be honest – you’re probably not going to have much time for leisurely beach reading until the kids are back in school anyway. These beach-reading recommendations have plenty of local color; all of the authors mentioned have made […]
There are other things I could write about today, but I don’t have a lot of time for writing this weekend, and you’re probably more interested in a book report anyway. (Yes, I know I said last week that books aren’t everything..and I stand by that, but seriously, how could there not be a post-BEA book report?) I actually didn’t ship a lot of books back from BEA (relatively speaking) and I brought back part […]
As befits a book-blogging accountant, I’ll begin this look back at the year in reading with a little number-crunching: Total books read: 56 Fiction: 45 Adult: 33 YA: 12 Nonfiction: 11 Memoir: 8 History: 2 Other: 1 (music) Number of pages read: No idea, although I suppose I could do the math…but I’m really not all that interested in crunching this particular number at this point, so never mind! (Do you keep track of […]
Carney’s House Party/Winona’s Pony Cart (Two Deep Valley Books) Maud Hart Lovelace Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback (ISBN 0062003291 / 9780062003294) Fiction (YA/children’s), 448 pages Source: Publisher, via Book Club Girl (Jennifer Hart) Reason for Reading: Review/Fall 2010 Readathon Opening Lines (Carney’s House Party): “Carney was climbing Sunset Hill. “Far below she could hear a group of her classmates, like herself just released from examinations, singing as they strolled beside the brook.” […]
BBAW 2010: A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs Thursday—Forgotten Treasure Sure we’ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it’s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction. This is your chance to tell the community why they should consider reading this book! I did my part for this cause earlier this year when I co-hosted a […]
The last four weeks have been pretty productive reading time for me, between vacation and convalescing with my dislocated shoulder! I started and finished three books during the two weeks we were away, and in the two weeks since we came home, I’ve completed four more. I honestly can’t remember the last time I read seven books in a month – and I’d also forgotten how much I like tearing through one book after another! […]
Disclosure: I purchased both of these books for my own personal reading. *Purchasing links in this review are connected to my Amazon Affiliates account and will generate a small referral fee for me if they’re used. Undercover Beth Kephart HarperCollins, 2009, paperback (ISBN 9780061238956 / 0061238953) Fiction (young adult), 304 pages Opening lines: “One day I saw a vixen and a dog fox dancing. It was on the other side of the cul-de-sac, past the […]
