It’s Monday is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s Monday, and it’s March, and winter just keeps coming! Seriously, I can’t complain too much given the trouble New England has had this winter. Here in lovely DC we just get a little bit of snow, ice, and drizzle. Enough to make it difficult to … Continue reading
Last year I said that every woman should read The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. I’m adding How to Be a Woman to that list. I’m coming late to the Caitlin Moran party, since I’ve read about her from many bloggers. She’s the author of Moranthology and most recently, How to Build … Continue reading
I love a good historical novel, but I don’t read a lot of historical romances because I really want history first, romance second. I want a good story and well-developed characters, not just a bodice-ripper. And that’s what I got with Thorland’s novel, which is one of a loosely connected series about the Revolutionary War. … Continue reading
Olive Kitteridge won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, and the basis for a recent miniseries starring Frances McDormand. It’s a book that falls somewhere between a novel and short stories, a trend I’m seeing a lot of lately. The stories take place in the small town of Crosby, Maine, and Olive is the … Continue reading
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Book-Related Problems.” Since books just about my favorite thing in the world, I don’t exactly have a lot of problems with them. But I’ve identified a few problems that relate to reading and blogging, and then I thought about things that cause me to dislike a book. Some … Continue reading
This summer will mark my fifth anniversary of blogging. And one of the things I’ve really wanted to do is attend the Book Expo America Bloggers Conference. Have you been? What did you think? I read some good critical reviews of last year’s conference, and it sounds like the blogging sessions aren’t always terribly informative. … Continue reading
Patricia Briggs is my favorite “series” writer. I try to read everything she writes, and that’s unusual for me. I mostly read a few books from a series and then move on to another one, and I ignore all the extra short stories and novellas that seem more for marketing purposes than to further the … Continue reading
I read this book right after reading Americanah, and both provide a fascinating, though different, perspective on the immigrant experience in the United States. Sometimes a book makes you take a second look at the people you encounter every day. Makes you think beyond whether the person behind the counter can understand your sandwich order, … Continue reading
So many people have read and reviewed this book, I don’t feel I need to. But I’ll give you my perspective on it. When my husband read this last year, I asked if he thought I’d like it. He said it was probably too technical, too much on the “hard” science fiction side (meaning it … Continue reading
It’s Monday is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s Monday, and I’m back from a nice long trip to California with sunny weather and lots of wine drinking! Along the way I read and reviewed a lot of books – which is good because two night classes a week will keep me pretty busy … Continue reading
I can’t say enough good things about this book. It really made me think about what it means to be an immigrant in this country, and what it means to be an African immigrant in this country as opposed to an African-American. Obinze and Imefelu are two young people growing up in Nigeria. When they … Continue reading
I’m afraid this was a book I wanted to love but didn’t. Like A.J. Fikry, it comes highly recommended from bloggers I respect. It fell flat for me. My first big problem with this book: major story flaw. This is a book about a highly advanced alien race that comes to Earth to stop humans … Continue reading
