The Book: The Sweet Far Thing, by Libba Bray
The Story: This is the last book of a trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two, but plan to, you may want to skip this part.
This starts pretty soon after the last book left off. Gemma and Co. are returning to Spence Academy after all that [...]
I know that since a lot of the books that have been released online, 1,000 sites with free books listed have popped up. For me these have never been overly appealing because the sites are so cluttered and set up so poorly.
This morning, I stumbled upon ReadPrint. The design is simple and sleek. There are [...]
The Book: Honolulu, by Alan Brennert
The Story: This is the life story of a girl who was named “Regret” when she was born. Her family lived in Korea and raised her very traditionally. Thanks to a spunky aunt and her friend, Regret learns to read and realizes bigger dreams for herself. She becomes a “picture [...]
Built-in bookshelves make me drool.
We’ve been tentatively house shopping for the last couple of months, and nothing gets me excited faster than some built-ins.
I need this in my life.
Here’s the link to the dude’s flickr who gets to sit in this room and read. So jealous!
The Book: The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, by Joel Glenn Brenner
The Story: Well, the story is this: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is not too far from the truth. Corporate spies, crazy inventions, chocolate makers who were not allowed to eat chocolate as children… all true. Totally wild.
This [...]
I found 5ft Shelf by accident the other day while looking for new book blogs. It was love at first sight.
The idea is this: In 1909, the president of Harvard said that everything that makes up a full liberal education could fit on a 5 foot shelf. He went further, saying that by reading 15 [...]
The Book: Rumors, by Anna Godbersen
The Story: This is the sequel to The Luxe . If you haven’t read The Luxe and think that you might, skip this part, because I don’t want to ruin the first book for you.
Rumors picks up just a couple of months after the first book ended. The year is [...]
The town I grew up in is admittedly small. I could go into all the mumbo jumbo about the 2 stop lights, the one restaurant, the cornfields on Main Street, but I’ll spare you all of that. What I really want to talk about is the library. I have had a book in my hand [...]
The Book: The Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, by Lisa Rogak
The Story: This is an unauthorized biography of Stephen King. She said within the book that while Stephen King didn’t do interviews with her, he didn’t object to her writing the biography and told his friends and family members to go [...]
The Book: Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality, by Rob Bell
The Story: This book, as the subtitle says, goes into the connections between God and sex. It starts out very broad, talking about how we’ve distorted sex and our sexuality until it has little to do with what God has in [...]