The Book: Honeymoon with My Brother, by Franz Wisner
The Story: Franz is kind of on top of his world: his girlfriend of 10 years is about to marry him, he has this high profile, great job and just a pretty nice set up. Within a week, his fiance calls off the wedding with people already [...]
Are these not amazing?
They are frames. They are shelves. They are beautiful.
I organize my books by color, so I can just picture a green frame, a red frame, a blue frame and so on. Amazing.
They are kind of pricey, but I’m pretty crafty. These can’t be that hard to make.
Now my little creative juices are [...]
The Book: Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King
The Story: This is the story of the marriage of Scott Landon, a world famous author, and his wife of 25 years Lisey. When the story begins, Scott has been dead for two years and Lisey is just starting to clean out his study and get stuff in some [...]
The Book: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
The Story: Despite all the hype that this book got, I went into it knowing very little. I knew it was about dogs and that it was based on the play Hamlet. Now, I know we did Hamlet in school, but I don’t remember that much. [...]
The Book: Freakonomics; A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Story: Yeah, not much of a “story.” They even say in the introduction that the information presented doesn’t really have particularly clear ties to any of the other information. Each chapter kind of takes on [...]
The Book: World Without End, by Ken Follett
The Story: Not entirely sure where to start with this one. This is the companion to Pillars of the Earth, which was another giant of a book. Really the similarities end at the fact that they take place in the same town, Kingsbridge. There were a few references [...]
I’ve been watching this site for a couple of months and I’m totally obsessed with it.
As I admitted in my last post, I am a list keeper. I love lists in general. This site, Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations, is chock full of lists.
Some of them are your standard bookish lists, “Best Book Club Selections of 2009″ [...]
I think that this is the way that you can tell if you are a compulsive reader: Do you keep stats?
I have been a serious reader my whole life, but only in the last couple of years have I started keeping track of number of books read, number of pages read, and doing crazy stuff [...]