Yesterday, despite the muggy, slightly drizzly day, I had the most wonderful time at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. The night before I thanked Target that my latest purse was huge. It hard cover versions of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Neverwhere, to hard cover copies of The Other Queen, and paperback versions [...]
#100 ~ House and Home & My 100th Review Contest
8 Sep By 50 Comments
Today I have the great pleasure of hosting Kathleen McCleary on her House and Home book tour sponsored by TLC Book Tours. I very much appreciate the invitation to participate in this tour as well as the opportunity to read Kathleen’s novel. Please click on Kathleen’s name below to visit her website. Click on the [...]
Meet Me in D.C.
28 Aug By 6 Comments
As my regular readers are well aware, I’m a Philippa Gregory fanatic. To this day, two of my three most viewed posts by far are about reading her Tudor series in chronological order and my thoughts about Anne Boleyn’s rape scene in the film adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl. When I received her newsletter [...]
July Book Blowout Month in Review
3 Aug By 3 Comments
When I first signed up for Blue Archipelago’s July Book Blowout, I challenged myself to read 8 books in July. After reviewing what I read during the month of June, I didn’t feel that 8 would be significantly challenging to me. I up-ed my goal to 10. When July hit, I was excited to get [...]
A Little Dose of Inspiration A Guest Post & A Contest
30 Jul By 25 Comments
While I’m not much more inspired today than I was yesterday, at least my post from last night and the picture I found using Google Images inspired Lisa Roe from Online Publicist. At the end of the post you will find details about the contest this post inspired me to hold… A Little Dose of [...]
Tuesday Thingers Recommendations
22 Jul By 11 Comments
Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? LibraryThing Recommendations are a wonderful thing and that was one of the first features I played [...]
July Book Blowout Update Day 12
12 Jul By 2 Comments
Well, I finally finished The i Tetralogy on the 10th. I decided to soldier through it (no pun intended) because it was quite honestly making me very anxious. The book very much accomplished what it set out to do, but you really need to be prepared before you read it. I even had a hard [...]
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