I don’t even know how to intro this except to say that I have found myself, over the last few days, just sitting and staring at my shelves. I think I’m obsessed.
I thought that 3 five-shelve bookshelves, would be enough, but as you can tell, I had to start an “overflow” shelf on the top. [...]
The Book: Mothers and Other Liars, by Amy Bourret
The Story: I was lucky enough to end up on an ARC tour started by Jennie, over at Life is Short. Read Fast. She read it and mailed it on to me. To check out her review, head over here and read up! I’ll let you know [...]
Sorry about the couple day hiatus. Did ya miss me? We’ve been working our butts off, but that’s never stopped me from blogging before. We have also been without internet and that has really been the problem. We’re back online now, so let the blogging begin!
I’m scared to even look at my Google Reader and [...]
I read an article in the New York Times last week sometime and it’s been kind of bouncing around in my mind ever since. The article was about how the social aspect of e-readers and so on are really changing how we read and what we read. It talks about how one of the features [...]
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz
I have always been a little bit morbid. I know I’ve told you that before, but it just comes up so often. This week I was struggling between Summer of My German Soldier and Scary Stories. Huh? I guess even as a kid I was quite [...]
The Book: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
The Story: While he was still living and working in Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to build a house for Edwin and Mamah Cheney. It didn’t take long at all for Frank and Mamah to realize that they had a lot in common and start to fall [...]
So I’m a big nerd and I’m pretty comfortable with that. I have a little collection of bookish tee-shirts and buttons, but just recently I’ve started to see bookish jewelry on different websites and I have to admit, I’m in want need of some of these little beauts.
Look at the little eyeglasses! So charming. (Hardy har, [...]
The Book: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Story: A shepherd boy living in Spain (I think…) has a dream one night about treasure that is hidden in Egypt. He makes the decision to follow his dreams, so he sells his sheep and sets off.
Along the way, he meets many people who guide him along this [...]
I am totally exhausted today. We had a long, wonderful weekend with our friends and families in the town that we grew up in, but I came back just totally destroyed. Our drive back was extended by about an hour because we got stuck in a great little traffic jam. Behind a semi. Filled with [...]
The Book: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Story: This book covers the full year after the author’s husband dies during dinner of a heart condition. During the same time, their daughter is being scooted around from ICU to hospital to ICU because she is having serious, serious issues after what seemed to [...]