This is hop from Bookish Ruth, Quotable. Grab a book you're reading or an old favorite and share a quote from it. I'm reading As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto. There are so many quotable lines in here, and eventually … [Read more...]
What book would you take into the trenches?
February 17, 2011 By 11 Comments
This week's literary blog hop from The Blue Bookcase is from Mel U at the Reading Life whose question is inspired by The Harp of Burma (on my to-read list). Mel U asks, "If you were going off to war (or some other similarly horrific situation) and … [Read more...]
Dueling books: This is your brain on bluegrass
February 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
As I’ve mentioned before on here, I’ve recently taken up the fiddle. Fiddling is great because it takes a whole set of skills that are completely different from what I do for a living as a professor, but because I am also an academic, I find I need … [Read more...]
Mailbox Monday: My bookstore bounty
February 14, 2011 By 8 Comments
I've seen Mailbox Monday as I've been tooling about the book blogosphere, but don't usually have a bounty of books to list. This week, however, my husband mistakenly asked me if I'd like to visit our local bookstore, Village Lights, with him. I … [Read more...]
Sunday Salon: So Cold the River
February 12, 2011 By 4 Comments
The dome at West Baden ResortSo Cold the River is a mystery/thriller set in French Lick and West Baden, Indiana. There are tornadoes and stinky sulphurous Pluto mineral water and vaguely supernatural goings-on. The main character is a failed … [Read more...]
Blog Hop: Winter’s Bone and Novel About My Wife Redux
February 11, 2011 By 9 Comments
This week's hop from Crazy-for-Books is to share a post from this week, book review or not. Well, that's relatively easy. This week I gave a relatively short review of Winter's Bone and Novel About My Wife. It was interesting to write about the … [Read more...]
Book Reviews: Drugs in the Ozarks and crazy in London
February 9, 2011 By 6 Comments
My stepdaughter is home from school today with a yucky cough and on again, off again fever, so here are two brief reviews which make for an interesting compare and contrast.Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell, is the story of Ree, a sixteen year old … [Read more...]
The Sunday Salon: My pilgrimage at Tinker Creek
February 6, 2011 By 6 Comments
Last night I finished my about my about two month long read of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, so I feel like I have truly been camped out at Tinker Creek right along with her and thought I would share my experiences for my first Sunday … [Read more...]
Book Review: Room and cases of extreme isolation
February 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
For those of you who may not yet know what Room is about, Emma Donoghue's novel is the story of a woman who is kidnapped and forcibly held in a room for 6 years in a shed in her kidnappers back yard, essentially serving as his sex slave. She gives … [Read more...]
Anywhere but here: what book or story would you like to inhabit?
February 2, 2011 By 13 Comments
Wow! So excited that this week’s blog hop from The Blue Bookcase is my question! Which kind of makes me think I should have had an answer prepared, but, alas, no. And truthfully, as soon as I thought of this question and sent if off, I thought to … [Read more...]
