Category: Reading
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Reading Notes
Over the past two weeks I fell into an obsession with suspense novels. I finished Under My Skin by Sabine Durrant and Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I started novels by Sophie Hannah, S.J. Bolton, Laura Lippman and Koethi Zan and checked out others by Megan Abbott and Chevy Stevens, Though I’ve always liked suspense…
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Reading Green & Giveaway Winner
I’m having a holiday at home this week and have had time to ponder my fall reading. Yesterday I picked out three classics that I’d like to read in the next few months. They all have beautiful varying shades of green in their covers and look very nice together – I think it is meant…
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Reading Notes
Last week I finished reading four books in five days. I seem to go through these phases of reading very intensely for a week or so and then barely reading at all for the next week. At the moment I am reading The Submission by Amy Waldman for my book club and I like it,…
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Reading Notes
I mentioned in my post about The Woman Upstairs that I was having trouble reading anything after finishing that marvelous book. For the past week I’ve flitted from one pretty package to another, from novel to novel, classic to new book, thriller to domestic. I finally settled on a book mentioned on flowersandstripes – The…
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On My Holds List
My library system recently bumped up the holds limit from five items per patron to ten items per patron. Of course, the day it went into effect I went crazy and reached the new limit pretty quickly. Most of the items I added to my list have a status of ‘on order’ – books that…
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4 Outstanding…Spooky Books
1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King – I read Pet Sematary one fall when I was living in a small town in Arkansas. My apartment was at the bottom of a hill next to a dense and dark forest. I lived alone and stayed up late into the night reading about the Creed family…
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eReading vs. Traditional Reading
I’ve owned a Kindle for close to two years now and a few weeks ago I realized that I have read less than 10 books on it. I have tons of books downloaded on the device – lots of out-of-print titles and other copyright free titles – but I don’t read them. And I have…
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4 Outstanding American Classics
In honor of Independence Day (which I spent in a small mountain town in Arizona yesterday) I am presenting to you four of my favorite American novels. This is a diverse collection because, as I have written about in the past, I really don’t read a lot of books written by Americans so the ones…
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4 Outstanding…Memoirs
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones – I am really fond of reading books about food, chefs and cooking. Judith Jones is a self-taught cook and a long-time editor at Knopf who discovered Julia Child and helped make her a household name in America. In this memoir she talks about her…
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I’ve Been Wondering….
about American women writers. Why don’t I read them? Why has their legacy not remained strong? I’ve been thinking about this on and off ever since reading the brilliant book A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter. I’ve mentioned this book before, I think. I recently checked it out from the library for the…
A Certain Fondness 