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...]
Blog Hop: The bad guy you love to hate
March 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
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...]
Blog Hop: Seriously, this is funny
March 3, 2011 By 8 Comments
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...]
Top Ten Tuesday: Dust collectors
March 1, 2011 By 8 Comments
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...]
Madison Monday: Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise
February 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Street ending in the riverLots of exciting things going on in Madison today. My lovely husband bought me a mandolin for my birthday at Crawdaddy Music here downtown. I also sampled from among several dangling fiddles at Crawdaddy. The beautiful thing … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise
February 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Street ending in the riverLots of exciting things going on in Madison today. My lovely husband bought me a mandolin for my birthday at Crawdaddy Music here downtown. I also sampled from among several dangling fiddles at Crawdaddy. The beautiful thing … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise
February 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Street ending in the riverLots of exciting things going on in Madison today. My lovely husband bought me a mandolin for my birthday at Crawdaddy Music here downtown. I also sampled from among several dangling fiddles at Crawdaddy. The beautiful thing … [Read more...]
Twofer Review: One year, one week and two widows
February 26, 2011 By 5 Comments
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...]
The gender of the book group
February 24, 2011 By 9 Comments
A couple of days ago I was browsing through the book blogosphere and came upon a post by The Reading Ape about the gender gap in reading. This was in response to a comment on The Huffington Post that men don’t read as much as women because the … [Read more...]
Top Ten Tuesday: Books to movies
February 22, 2011 By 5 Comments
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...]
