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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

It’s still Wednesday, which means I can still answer last week’s BTT prompt before they post this week’s! On Thursday, July 29h, Booking through Thursday asked: Which fictional character (or group of characters) would you like to spend a day at the beach with? Why would he/she/they make good beach buddies? Despite the fact that [...]

It’s not Sunday, but since I’ve got a full weekend, I’m posting my Sunday Salon piece early. As of this evening, I have only one more Elin Hilderbrand novel left to read. It’s her most recent The Island, and I’m both eager and afraid to begin. Eager because I’m really enjoying my virtual summer on [...]

On Thursday, July 8th, Booking through Thursday asked: Do you have friends and family to share books with? Discuss them with? Does it matter to you? When I was little, my mother and I had an unofficial race to see who be the first to read each month’s issue of Ms. Magazine. I usually won, [...]

On Thursday, June 17th, Booking through Thursday asked: Do you prefer reading current books? Or older ones? Or outright old ones? (As in, yes, there’s a difference between a book from 10 years ago and, say, Charles Dickens or Plato.) I read a bit of everything, and go through cycles where I only want period [...]

On Thursday, June 10th, Booking through Thursday asked: Do signed copies excite you? Tempt you? Delight you? Or does it not matter to you? While there are a few authors of whom I am truly a fan, and not just a mere reader, I’m not the type to wait in line all night, so I [...]

Yet again, I am dreadfully late at responding to BTT. On Thursday, May 27th, Booking through Thursday asked: Which do you prefer? Short stories? Or full-length novels? In my world, having nothing to read is just as bad as not taking vitamins. I need to have a book or two near the tub, the toilet, [...]