Greetings Bookworms, Let it never be said that I am not susceptible to peer pressure. When I saw that Rory from Fourth Street Review and Wendy from Wensend were putting together a Stephen King event for March, I decided to throw my hat in the ring. Now, if you’ve been here a while, you’ll know… Read more »
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Top Ten Tuesday: A Spring Preview
Happy Tuesday, Bookworms! I seem to have come down with a cold, which is endlessly vexing to me because I so rarely get sick. As a result I’m a giant whiny puddle of goo. In an effort not to dwell on what I’m sure is the most minor of ailments, I’m going to make a… Read more »
Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman
Howdy Bookworms, How y’all doing? You remember how much I loved Saving CeeCee Honeycutt? You don’t? Well. Go HERE. I’ll wait. Back? Good! Fortune smiled on me a few weeks back and I won a $20 gift card to Book Depository from I Solemnly Swear. Amanda was kind enough to allow me to go 14… Read more »
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Privit Bookworms, That’s a Ukrainian greeting right there, translated into familiar characters, because Ukrainian uses a whole different alphabet. It looks pretty cool, but I thought I’d avoid having y’all think I was hacked first thing in my post. Why all the chatter about Ukrainian? A book, obviously. Last month I joined The Book Wheel and… Read more »
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
Greetings Glorious Bookworms, I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but it is STILL winter here. The eternal, never done snowing, frozen, messy, gray, icky winter is still holding on. That hasn’t stopped me from pining away for spring time and my garden, though. That’s part of the reason why I was super… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday: Famous Authors I’ve Never Read
Happy Tuesday, Bookworms! We’re back with another Top Ten list this week (yaaaaaaaay!) Sorry for the lapse, but you know how it is. Some topics are easier for me to work with than others. In any case, this week the ladies of The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list popular authors we’ve… Read more »
Idiosyncratic Lit List: Shifting Perspectives
Happy Friday, Bookworms! It’s been a while since I made a list (like, a week or two? Too long, certainly.) I ran across this fantastic post on Book Riot recently. Then I came across this one on The Huffington Post. They are both about how cool it would be to read a book from another… Read more »
While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell
Dearest Bookworms, Once upon a time, a publisher emailed me with an offer to review a fractured fairy tale. While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell tells a less Disney-fied version of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale. *I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I was threatened with zero… Read more »
The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian
Howdy Bookworms, You know how much I love a good dystopian novels, right? ESPECIALLY when they can stand on their own and not foist a trilogy upon me. (This ended well, PLEASE, don’t trilogy me!) A while back I received an email from Penguin (my favorite publisher, for obvious reasons) offering me a copy of The Office… Read more »
Humboldt: Or, the Power of Positive Thinking by Scott Navicky
Greetings, Bookworms! Have you ever read a book that left you completely bewildered, but kind of happy about it? I just finished Humboldt: Or, the Power of Positive Thinking by Scott Navicky and I am having a heck of a time putting my feelings into words. Before we get to my rambling, let’s take a break for… Read more »