Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan – This is book two of the Percy Jackson series. Percy ventures out to find the Golden Fleece to heal the magical tree on the borders of Camp Half-Blood. I love these books. I can’t wait to read the whole [...]
Hosted at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – This is the first of his YA books that I’ve read. It is the story of Nobody Owens who wanders into a graveyard as a toddler. A man murdered his family and was planning on murdering him but he left the front [...]
Hosted at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer – I found this book in a roundabout way. Someone on last week’s list recommended a book I [...]
Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde – This is the fifth book in the Tuesday Next series. I found it at the dollar store and grabbed it because I love the series. I figured this would be a reread but I don’t think I read it before. [...]
Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I only finished two books this week because I started and abandoned three. I also had one stolen by the SO that I would have finished. Now I have to wait until he’s done. It turns out that this week is an all e-book week. Amazon.com Widgets Backseat Saints [...]
Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. This was a hard reading week. I started several books before I found one that held my interest. Ape House by Sara Gruen had my attention before it even began. The quote page at the beginning says, “Give orange give me eat orange me eat orange give me eat [...]
Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets Second Glance by Jodi Picoult – I think of Jodi Picoult novels as super-realistic portrayals of life so I was surprised to find this early supernatural story of hers. An elderly man sells his land to a developer but a local Indian tribe protests, saying it is [...]
Hosted by Sheila at BookJourney. Amazon.com Widgets The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews – This book was recommended by someone who participated in the meme a few weeks ago. I can’t remember where I saw it. I was in the mood for something lighter than what I had been reading and this was perfect. [...]
Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin – This book scared me because it is often compared to Eat Pray Love which I hated. [...]
It is time for the Monday roundup of what I read this week hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee – Hoarding is something that I just don’t understand. I have the opposite problem. I hate to have too [...]
I’m reading a book called THE HAPPINESS PROJECT by Gretchen Rubin. I’m only partway through but one thing that struck me was her idea that she should work on being herself. That meant not trying to force herself to be interested in things that she thought she should be interested in and to embrace the [...]
This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets Till You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage – I liked the setting of this book. It takes place immediately following the inauguration of Barack Obama. A midlevel campaign staffer is waiting to hear if she is going to get a White House job. [...]
This is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.. Amazon.com Widgets Half The Sky – Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. I loved this book. It is a harsh but hopeful look at violence against women and what can be done to help. Topics covered are sex trafficking, [...]
This is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Amazon.com Widgets Books I Read This Week: Not Less Than Gods by Kage Baker This is part of a series. I didn’t know that when I checked it out or I wouldn’t have read it. I don’t like starting in the middle. In this case I didn’t [...]
I found this great list of reading bloggers who list what they read the past week every Monday. It is hosted here if you want to see the list of all the participating bloggers. I’ve been spending time reading through the blogs and found out about new books from authors I like and new books [...]
I watched NEW MOON today. I had to put the subtitles on and watch it on fast forward because I can’t handle it. Teen angst makes me want to slap people. Really, what is so god-awful horrible about your life? She was sitting there moping because a horribly ugly undead thing that is barely holding [...]
The e-book and audiobook version of the anthology of short stories I’m in is now available to order. It is the book of the day at www.ravenousromance.com. It is called Experimental. If it does well in these formats it will be published in printed form later. It is only $4.99. Great deal! Go buy it [...]
I just noticed that I’ve been missing in action. I have three excuses – quilting, crocheting, and polygamy. I have a quilt that is scheduled to go to its new home in 5 days. The top is not yet completed. Is this freaking me out? Nope, for reasons that I can’t quite name I seem [...]
I just read Steig Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I heard about this on a NPR feature. It has been big in Sweden but was just translated to English. I don’t usually go for literary novels. I want a good story instead of fancy writing. So, I listened to the rave reviews and [...]
I just found out about a site called Every Day Fiction. You can sign up to get a super short story emailed to you everyday. The stories are really good. I am totally in love with the one for today – STEAKS by Guy Anthony De Marco. I am sure that that means that something [...]