Booking Through Thursday – Conversions

by Athena // 30 August, 2012 // 12 Comments

This week on Booking Through Thursday: Do you find yourself thinking that the books you read would be good on film? Do you wish the things you watched on TV or in the movies were available as book? Some really... Continue reading →

WIP Wednesday: Twist Festival

by Athena // 29 August, 2012 // 4 Comments

A quick update: I haven’t worked on my Girasole blanket very much. I am on the last repeat of Chart G now. It won’t be finished before September. Oh goodness, I’ll be so glad to finish it. Hopefully cooler weather... Continue reading →

Austen Adaptations

by Athena // 28 August, 2012 // 2 Comments

I love books, but I also really like film and TV. I have watched a lot of book to movie/TV adaptations over the years, some good, some bad, some not at all like the book but still enjoyable. I thought... Continue reading →

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

by Athena // 27 August, 2012 // No Comments

From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to Fifty Shades of Grey. Well, people can’t accuse me of not having eclectic taste in books. I got these books on Kindle some time ago right when it was getting a bit of buzz.... Continue reading →

Sunday Salon: Busy August

by Athena // 26 August, 2012 // 6 Comments

This week I read and finished The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It has been a busy weekend. I am making jelly for the first time (or trying to), went on a road trip to Twist, and will... Continue reading →

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

by Athena // 25 August, 2012 // 6 Comments

My first Murakami novel! YAY! I have wanted to read him for years, and finally, I have done it. This book was very strange, but I really liked it. On GoodReads, I gave this a 4, but really this is... Continue reading →

Booking Through Thursday – Discuss

by Athena // 23 August, 2012 // 6 Comments

On this week’s Booking Through Thursday: Do you like to talk about what you read? Do you have somebody to talk WITH? The short answer is, I have a blog where 85% is about books! I do like to talk... Continue reading →

WIP Wednesday: Never Ending Blanket

by Athena // 22 August, 2012 // 12 Comments

Good grief this thing has taken forever. Progress on the blanket that never ends: I am on the first repeat of the penultimate chart G. After finishing this chart twice, it’ll be the edging. This blanket has taken the whole... Continue reading →

Sunday Salon: Haruki Murakami

by Athena // 19 August, 2012 // 8 Comments

Hello! This week, I read Pride and Prejudice & Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, Love & Freindship and The History of England, and Death Combes to Pemberley. I haven’t started anything in the last couple of days as I have been... Continue reading →

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

by Athena // 17 August, 2012 // 2 Comments

This was my first P. D. James novel, but far from my first Austen adaptation. I do not read a lot of modern mysteries, but I got this book for the Kindle when it was published last year. I even... Continue reading →

Booking Through Thursday – Sniffle

by Athena // 16 August, 2012 // 14 Comments

On this week’s Booking Through Thursday: What was the most emotional read you have ever had? The older I get, the more prone to tears when reading or watching movies. I am a sensitive person, but when I was younger,... Continue reading →

Love & Freindship and The History of England by Jane Austen

by Athena // 14 August, 2012 // 3 Comments

Another reread from the collected minor works of Austen. I won’t do a proper post on Sanditon and The Watsons since they are unfinished, but I rather liked their beginning especially Sanditon’s when I read them three years ago. These... Continue reading →

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