Do you ever get in a reading slump? Find yourself picking up books and about halfway through deciding that you really can’t finish them? Or being really excited about a book, only to find it dismally disappointing? That’s where I’ve been the last … [Read more...]

This week’s literary blog hop from The Blue Bookcase asks folks to discuss their views on sentimentality in literature. It’s kind of like an essay prompt for a graduate English seminar, which is cool. But potentially time consuming, so I was going to … [Read more...]

I’ve been mulling around in my head exactly what to say about this book for the last couple of days. I find that sometimes when a book leaves me mulling it’s a good thing, and sometimes, not so much. It all depends on the mulling, really, doesn’t it? … [Read more...]

Laurie, over at What She Read, has a hop that closes today (you just have time to join in) celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday. What She Read is a great book blog that also asks its readers to think about doing more than just reading, and that's a … [Read more...]

Oh, the blog hop at Crazy-for-Books.com.  Everyone else is doing it...shouldn't you?This week's question, "If you find a book you love, do you hunt down other books by the same author?"I have to say, in the past, yes, this was where most of my … [Read more...]

I read Emily’s review of this novel by Meg Wolitzer at As the Crowe Flies (and Reads) about a month ago, and wasn’t sure whether or not to read it. Then I realized it was in a box of ARC books that Emily was so generous as to send me. And I saw it on … [Read more...]

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is a rewind. You can go to this post at The Broke and the Bookish and pick any Top Ten topic you may have missed, or not had time to do. I wasn’t quite into super blogger mode in November of last year, so I missed this Top … [Read more...]

This is not exactly a book review. Before I left for the beach back in March I alluded to a running disagreement in one of my book groups about Olive Kitteridge and that we would be meeting to discuss the book when I got back in April. So, here’s my … [Read more...]

Here's a brand, spanking new blog hop from Lucybird's Book Blog.  It's to encourage us book bloggers to explore blogs we might not look at normally.  Getting a new blog hop started is hard work, so here's to Lucybird for her efforts and encouraging … [Read more...]

The Twofer book review usually pairs two completely random books to see what kind of interesting things emerge when they’re reviewed together. I have to confess that today’s pairing is not completely random. I sat down to review Ines of My Soul and … [Read more...]