Monthly Archives: August 2010
Booking Through Thursday: Giving Up
On Thursday, August 26th, Booking through Thursday asked: If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop? I try very hard always to finish books. There are some that have slow beginnings, but then surprise me pleasantly once I’m partway … Continue reading
Review: A Summer Affair, by Elin Hilderbrand
A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand This novel is both the seventh novel the author wrote, and the seventh of her novels that I read, but that happened purely by coincidence. I hadn’t read any of the others in order of publication date. Unlike many of the other protagonists in Hilderbrand’s work, Claire Danner Crispin, … Continue reading
Carolina Dreams: It’s All Anne Rivers Siddons’ Fault
Anne Rivers Siddons is responsible for one of my ultimate fantasies: a Carolina beach vacation. I’ve been a fan of the author Anne Rivers Siddons ever since my mother and I started scouring the new fiction shelf at the San Jose Public Library for her work. Sure, she writes male characters that are only slightly … Continue reading
Books on Film: Eat, Pray, Love
A few years ago, when I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love I remember thinking that EAT and PRAY were pretty interesting, once I got past the author’s self entitlement, but LOVE didn’t do much for me. Last night, my husband and I went to see the movie, despite the fact that critical reception … Continue reading
Coming Soon! (What’s on my TBR stack?)
If you’ve read my main blog, you know that I’m turning 40 on Tuesday, and I had a lovely party last night. It didn’t include any atv riding, but there was yummy food, good cake, excellent company, and copious amounts of Mike’s Peach Margarita. As is usual for me, books were in evidence…specifically four new … Continue reading
Retro-reading: Warped Factors by Walter Koenig
Warped Factors by Walter Koenig There are some celebrity autobiographies that make you kind of want to bitch-slap the authors. There are some celebrity autobiographies that make you think you should be curled up in a library with a crackling fire, smoking endless tatuaje cigars. Then there are the celebrity autobiographies that perfectly balance the … Continue reading
The Sunday Salon: Rhymes with Purple
Maybe it’s that I’m nine days away from turning forty, or maybe it’s just that the news has too many stories about damage from the oil spill, incredibly hot weather (and no rain), Outer Banks foreclosures, and the like, but lately I’ve been rediscovering poetry, and specifically poetry meant for children. Not Dr. Seuss, because … Continue reading
Five for Friday: iLibrary
I haven’t done a “five for friday” post in a while, but I’m between books at the moment and was in the mood, especially as I’m still kind of thinking I want a Kindle for my birthday. As you know, if you read this blog regularly, I’m not entirely opposed to ebooks, and even own … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: First Time
On Thursday, August 5th, Booking through Thursday asked: What is the first book you remember reading? What about the first that made you really love reading? As usual I’m a day late in answering the BTT prompt. Ah, well, I don’t do it to share my link, I do it because I like the questions. … Continue reading
Retro-reading: Star Trek: Traitor Winds, by L. A. Graf
Star Trek: Traitor Winds by L. A. Graf A few weeks ago, I was desperate for some escapist comfort reading. You might think that reading half of everything Elin Hilderbrand had ever written would count as comfort reading, but it doesn’t. Hilderbrand’s Nantucket novels are beach reading. I wanted something light, familiar, and completely unrelated … Continue reading
