Posted in Reading on Jun 18th, 2013
I’m late to the party with Audiobook Week at Devourer of Books. Here’s yesterday’s question: Are you new to audiobooks in the last year? Have you been listening to them forever but discovered something new this year? Favorite titles? New times/places to listen? This is your chance to introduce yourself and your general listening experience. [...]
Posted in Reading on Jun 16th, 2013
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sid and Chip are African American jazz musicians in 1930s Berlin. After the war begins they flee to France with a Black German trumpet prodigy named Hiero. Because Hiero is a minority from the Rhineland he is considered stateless by the Nazis. Hours [...]
Posted in Reading on Jun 9th, 2013
Paris: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd My rating: 4 of 5 stars From the first settlement on the banks of the Seine to the occupation of World War II, Paris has seen it all over the centuries. This novel tells the story of several families – some aristocratic, some working class – who have called [...]
Posted in Reading on May 30th, 2013
I like nonfiction and I think I read a lot of it. I read about 15% nonfiction. I read to entertain my brain so I like my nonfiction to read like a good story. I like all different kinds of nonfiction. I like memoirs and books where the writer tells the story by writing about [...]
Posted in Just for Fun, Reading on May 30th, 2013
It is giveaway day on Armchair BEA. Let’s make this easy. I’m giving away a $10 gift certificate to Amazon (or Barnes and Noble or any place else you want that does online gift certificates if Amazon doesn’t work for you.) a Rafflecopter giveaway If you want to visit everyone else giving out great [...]
Posted in Reading on May 29th, 2013
The topic of the day is genre fiction. What do you read and what draws you to that genre? I read just about anything. I don’t really consider the genre when I select a book. It makes me a bit crazy to read blogs that only focus on one type of book. I think everyone [...]
Posted in Reading on May 26th, 2013
The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne My rating: 3 of 5 stars Josh Hanagarne has Tourette’s Syndrome. It causes him to have uncontrollable tics. He may yell or blink or hit himself. This is a memoir of his attempts to control his disease [...]
Posted in Reading on May 19th, 2013
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Michael Pollan examines four styles of cooking – barbeque, braising, baking bread, and fermenting. He goes into the history of each as he learns about them from experts in the field. I like reading Michael Pollan’s books even if the [...]
Posted in Reading on May 5th, 2013
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare My rating: 4 of 5 stars Tessa Grey is preparing for her wedding but her world is about to come crashing down around her. Her groom is sick and is dying more quickly than anyone realizes. Her enemy is trying yet again to capture her and may take out The [...]
Posted in Reading on Apr 28th, 2013
Doughnut by Tom Holt My rating: 3 of 5 stars Theo recently lost his job. Since he blew up a very, very large supercollider and the part of Switzerland it sat under, he isn’t likely to get another job in his field anytime soon. His wife left him and his inherited fortune is gone. To [...]
Posted in Reading on Apr 21st, 2013
Pukka’s Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs by Ted Kerasote My rating: 4 of 5 stars After the author’s beloved dog Merle died, he set out to find his new dog. In the process he researched shelters and breeders and tried to determine what would make his new dog live for as long as possible. [...]
Posted in Reading on Apr 14th, 2013
Six Years by Harlan Coben My rating: 3 of 5 stars It has been 6 years since Jake watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man. When he sees the obituary of Natalie’s husband he decides to go to the funeral. He’s shocked to find out that this man was married to another [...]
Posted in Reading on Apr 7th, 2013
Accident of Birth: A Novel by Heather Neff My rating: 4 of 5 stars Twenty years ago Reba Freeman’s husband Joseph left her behind when he returned to his native Liberia. Since then she’s made a new successful life for herself, her second husband, and their daughter. But when she finds out that Joseph has [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 31st, 2013
Sealed with a Kiss by Rachael Lucas My rating: 3 of 5 stars Kate recently broke up with her boyfriend of six years. Lacking a place to live, she answers an ad for a live-in Girl Friday position on a Scottish island. The island is home to an eccentric cast of characters who welcome Kate [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 24th, 2013
True Sisters by Sandra Dallas My rating: 4 of 5 stars In 1856 Mormon converts from Europe were encouraged to emigrate to Utah. Because most of the new settlers could not afford to pay $300 to outfit a wagon for the journey from the last rail stop in Iowa, they built handcarts and prepared to [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 17th, 2013
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann Emil Larsson is a man about town in Stockholm in the 1790s, however, his rising government career is threatened though by his failure to marry. A fortune-telling friend offers to lay a special spread of cards called an Octavo after she sees a vision of him on a golden [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 10th, 2013
Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS by Elton John In the 1980s when AIDS started to kill his friends, Elton John was deep into a cocaine and alcohol addiction. Eventually the loss of a friend caused him to sober up and regret that he didn’t do more to help. [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 3rd, 2013
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy Chicky scandalized her family by running away from her small town in Ireland with an American. They told her no good would come of it so she never told them when he left her a few months later. She stayed in America for 20 years, only returning when [...]
Posted in Reading on Feb 24th, 2013
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter Kate’s mother is dying. She wants to go back to her hometown. Kate is prepared to spend as long as it takes for her mother to die and then she is out of there. She isn’t interested in making friends. When she ends up on the end of a [...]
Posted in Reading on Feb 10th, 2013
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams Kate is trying to get on a plane to Norway but gets delayed at the ticket counter by a confused Norwegian man. Shortly after she leaves the counter, it is destroyed in what authorities eventually describe as “an act of God.” They don’t know how [...]
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