#50 ~ Fight Club

Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Throughout the year I’ve been talking with people at work about the books I’ve been reading. Two of my co-workers mentioned Fight Club. I’ve never had a desire to read this book or see the movie. They are six and 13 years younger than me respectively and I [...]

#41 ~ The Monsters of Templeton

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff There is something spectacular about a book whose first line lures you into its spell like a siphon and never lets you go. In my 36 years of reading, there has only been two books whose first lines I’ve memorized and cannot forget: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick [...]

Dy-no-mite!

My husband called me this afternoon to tell me a book I’d ordered had arrived.  I haven’t recently ordered a book, so I was a little perplexed – and I don’t like not knowing these types of things, right, Trista?  As I checked my accounts at all possible places, I remembered that I’d signed up [...]

Middle Childhood Reading Memories

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 [...]

The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For…

The Big 3-0 – Free Book for You Contest has been held and the winner is:  Judi Congratulations!!!! As the Lucky Winner, Judi’s has two responsibilities: To reply to this post with the name and author of the book she’s selected. Send me an email with her full name and address so I can ship [...]

Enter the Free Book Contest Before It’s Too Late!

[contest ended] In case you missed the post, I am giving you – yes you! – the opportunity to win a free book to celebrate the 30th book I will have read this year.  Simply leave a comment to the original post.  You pick my 30th book, I’ll purchase it, gently read it, and then send it [...]

The Big 3-0 = A Free Book for You

  I created 52 Books or Bust as a way to document the challenge I gave to myself to read a book a week this year.  Along the way, I’ve made up only two rules for myself: I won’t use quick reads to bump up my numbers (I’ve actually read three of Janet Evanovich’s books [...]