I'm a little late, but this is a blog hop sponsored by Meg at 1st Books.  You can also check it out by joining SheWrites, a great resource for bloggers and writers of all varieties.  Add your link at 1st Books and then introduce yourself.I've been on … [Read more...]

This book came in a great big box of random advanced review copies sent to me by an amazingly generous friend. I can’t describe to you how fun it is to just dip in with my eyes closed and pull out a book. It’s like Christmas, only it’s all books, and … [Read more...]

This week's blog hop from Crazy-for-Books asks for your all-time favorite book villain.  You can hop along by going to Crazy-for-Books or clicking on the button above.For me, in a good book the villain isn't really evil or bad so much as misguided.  … [Read more...]

Today's literary blog hop from The Blue Bookcase, can literature be funny?  What is your favorite humorous literary book?  If you want to participate in this blog hop, grab the button above or go to The Blue Bookcase and play along at home.Yes, … [Read more...]

This Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and the Bookish are the top ten books you had to have, but that are now collecting dust on your shelf, unread and neglected.  I can answer this one because it's fairly short.I don't know if this will strike horror … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago I reviewed two books together, and liked how it worked. It felt kind of like being back in college and having fun trying to think of something really weird and yet interesting to say in essays about books like Clarissa (for which I … [Read more...]

So like Emily at As the Crowe Flies (And Reads) I find assembling a list to be a bit of work. As soon as I’ve put a list together, I immediately think of 5 other things that should have been on it. But I’m giving this hop hosted by The Broke and the … [Read more...]

I didn’t read Julie and Julia, I just saw the movie, so I can’t really say how As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto compares. When I saw the movie, I kind of wished it had been just Julia, without the Julie, but now I wish it … [Read more...]

You gotta love a book with an exclamation point! You have to! Really! One of my good friends lent me this book when she discovered that I’ve never read any Willa Cather, despite being a placist, which appears to truly be a word that my friend … [Read more...]