Booking Through Thursday – Ideal
I want you to think about your ideal reading experience. Think about the location. (Your bed? Favorite chair? The beach? Indoors or outdoors?). Think about…
FO Fridays: Welsh Country Stockings
This was first time completing fair isle on socks after failing to do so three years ago with the same white yarn. Nancy Bush is…
Booking Through Thursday – Childhood vs. Adult
Have your reading habits changed since you were a child? (I mean, I’m assuming you have less time to read now, but …) Did you…
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Another humorous book of essays by Mr Sedaris. I first read Sedaris's books in 2008 with his When You are Engulfed with Flames. He appears…
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
My second YA espionage novel in a little over a week! I thought this would be a good follow-up and foil to Ally Carter's series.…
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
I was apprehensive of this children's book mostly because I get very sad with animal stories. I remember watching Black Beauty (1994) as a kid,…
Sunday Salon: Victoria Day Weekend
Hello, everyone! It's the first long weekend of the summer, and I haven't done much. Poo. I went to a tulip photo spree on Tuesday.…
Booking Through Thursday – Returns
What book(s) do you find yourself going back to? Beloved children’s classics? Favorites from college? Something that touched you and just makes you long to…
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
This was my third Muriel Spark book, and I continue to like her style and prose. There is something distinct and a bit strange about…
Only The Good Spy Young By Ally Carter
I only read this because I thought this was the last book in the series and. It isn't and I'm done with this series. It's…
The Classics Spin 2
The Second Classics Spin from the Classics Club. As with before, I must pick twenty books, then a random number will be selected and each…
Sunday Salon: Challenges
Hello everyone! I did not post very much this week, but I read two books yesterday including Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means and…