Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl I’m about 75 pages in to this book and it is wonderful and engaging. It’s quite different from anything I’ve read recently and I’m loving it.
#30 ~ The Kite Runner
6 Jul By 5 Comments
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini This book was selected for me and I couldn’t be more thankful. It was a book I’ve seen and picked up many times before. Afghanistan . Do I really want to spend my reading time on a topic that is somewhat hard to avoid IRL? That was what I [...]
Postponed – Fiction Friday Installment
22 Jun By Leave a Comment
I am feeling particularly unmotivated today. I didn’t even think about it last night. I know that it is Fiction Friday, but I have nothing at this point. What I have learned is not to leave the writing until Thursday night. I will post my Fiction Friday for this week at some point this weekend. [...]
#29 ~ The Way The Crow Flies
19 Jun By 1 Comment
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald When you sit down to read a book over 800 pages, you know that you’ve committed to a very detailed story. When you’ve challenged yourself to finish every book come hell or high water, that commitment can be very daunting. Thankfully, The Way the Crow Flies by [...]
God Bless the Tigers
12 Jun By Leave a Comment
I got a call from my brother tonight. He wanted to tell me about Justin Verlander and his no-hitter against the Brewers – the first no-hitter for the Tigers in almost 24 years. It was the first ever at Comerica Park. Congratulations, Justin! Go Tigers! Just hearing about Justin Verlander’s game tonight brought me back [...]
Middle Childhood Reading Memories
11 Jun By 2 Comments
Our local library was a little over a mile away from our house and the back roads route made it pretty easy to ride our bikes there during the summer. I looked forward to the summer book contest every year. I was a bookworm as a child. I could, and often did, spend days continuously [...]
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