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Review: The Shakespeare Manuscript
The Shakespeare Manuscript Stewart Buettner Product Description (from Amazon.com): Not one of Shakespeare’s plays exists in manuscript form until a failing bookseller discovers a long-lost, early version of HAMLET. In an attempt to trace the puzzling manuscript’s origins, its new owner finds he can’t trust the identity of play’s author and soon has doubts about … Continue reading
Mini-Review: Lassiter
Lassiter Paul Levine This is a mini-review, because the real one will be over at All Things Girl later this month, but I just finished reading Lassiter, which is one of my entries for RIP. It’s a little more violent than I usually like in a mystery, but really a compelling read, an old-school detective … Continue reading
The Sunday Salon: Monster Mash?
When we think of monsters – not monstrous people or monstrous acts – but Hollywood-style monsters, two of the first that come to mine have to be Frankenstein and Dracula. Two years ago, as part of an English/Literature tutorial for a friend’s son, we studied Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and noted the differences in the way … Continue reading
30-Day Book Meme #6: Tuesdays with Morrie
There aren’t a lot of books that really make me sad, though there are many books with individual moments that cause me to get a little weepy. One book that does make me sad, however, is Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie. I actually only read it for the first time last month, but it made … Continue reading
Sunday Salon: Bookless?
September is nearly over, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t finished reading a single book. As is my custom, I have several started, but nothing is capturing my attention. I could blame work, or the weather, or any number of other things, but the reality is that I just haven’t been able to fall into … Continue reading
The Sunday Salon: Shifting Seasons
Labor Day weekend doesn’t really have a lot of significance when you work from home as a writer. My “office” is the Internet, which never closes, and there are weeks when I choose to work Saturday and Sunday and skip Monday and Tuesday, and other weeks when I work a more conventional schedule. It depends … Continue reading
30-Day Book Meme #5: Bread Alone
The 30-Day Book Meme asks me to write about a book “that makes me happy,” and the first title that popped into my head is Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks. I love this book so much – about a woman who is dumped and left mostly penniless by her cheating husband, moves to Seattle, … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: History
On Thursday, August 25th, Booking through Thursday asked: Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those … Continue reading
30-Day Book Meme #4: A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The book meme asks us to write about our favorite book from our favorite series. As I said, I don’t really have real favorites, but since I listed the Holmes & Russell series, I’m going to honor that choice and pick A Monstrous Regiment of Women as my favorite book within it. It’s a book … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: National Book Week
On Thursday, August 11th, Booking through Thursday asked: It’s National Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence as your status My sentence is from Kiss My Tiara by Susan Jane Gilman: I’d been reading a lot of Rimbaud and I guess something about the … Continue reading
