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Review: The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Tags: YA, magical realism, selkies, familiesSummaryReviewWhen you read a Margo Lanagan book, you expect it to both confuse and enthrall you. And THE BRIDES OF ROLLROCK ISLAND delivers that...
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Review: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Tags: YA, 1980s, romanceSummary"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says."So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers."I’m not kidding," he says."You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen.""What about...
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Top Ten Series I'd Like to Start But Haven't Yet
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish, and it's fun fun fun! (The few times I'm prepared enough to participate.)Gahhh, how do I even begin to find all the series I keep...
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Why Indie Bookstores Will Survive the Apocalypse
By "apocalypse" here, I mean, of course, the advent of online shopping and the effect it's been having on brick-and-mortar stores. It is an apocalypse of sorts: great establishments full of personality...
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Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth
Tags: YA, LGBTSummaryCameron Post’s parents died in a car accident the day she kissed a girl. That, and Cameron’s conservative Montana town, sets the tone for her romantic and sexual encounters. When...
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Review: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Tags: YA, historical fiction, New Orleans, 1950s, prostitutionSummaryAt the turn of the second half of the twentieth century, Josie Moraine hides a farfetched dream that she shouldn’t have as the...
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Hearting Things (3)
Don't you just love it when you acquire a bunch of interesting articles / random passions / new hobbies, and you want to share your obsessions them with your blogger friends, and you wonder how you...
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Review: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Tags: college, baseball, sports, love SummaryHenry Skrimshander is a good shortstop but a rural Midwestern nobody until Mike Schwartz discovers him and gets him onto the Westish College baseball team,...
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Top Ten Books at the Top of My Spring 2013 TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.Rather than pretend that I'm in the know about soon-to-be-released books and all that, the majority of books on this list will be...
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Review: Diverse Energies edited by Tobias Bucknell and Joe Monti
Tags: science fiction, fantasy, dystopian, POC, short story anthologySummary“No one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation...
View ArticleCalling Old and New Veronica Mars Fans
We interrupt your regularly scheduled day with the best news since Veronica Mars was a TV show. Which is that THERE WILL SOON BE A VERONICA MARS MOVIE! Sorry for the caps. I just--I'm having trouble...
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Tips on Touring Egypt
I don't know how helpful this post will be, since travel guides and situations change so rapidly, but I figure that since I've gone through the process of traveling in Egypt, I may as well share some...
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Review: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Book 2Tags: YA, fantasy, angels, demons, love, warReview…And here, my interest in this series comes to an end. Daughter of Smoke and Bone was a heart-pounding whirlwind of...
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New Zealand: Part 1 of 3
Well, I tried putting off writing these posts for several weeks because once I write these I'll feel like there's nothing left of my New Zealand trip... and it was heavenly. I'd take nature over people...
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Top Ten Books I HAVE to Have
Top Ten Tuesday is an award-winning meme hosted at The Broke & The Bookish!I decided to... personalize today's topic a bit. The actual topic is, "Top Ten Books I Had to Buy... But Are Still Sitting...
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Waiting on Wednesday (124)
Long time no WoW. Since I've returned to blogging I've been smacked by gobs of great-sounding books. I've managed to narrow my picks down to only the most appealing ones and restrained from dumping...
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Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Diviners, Book 1Tags: young adult, historical, paranormal, 1920sSummaryEvie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is...
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New Zealand: Part 2 of 3
Catch up on my New Zealand adventures in Part 1!Days 10-12: Lake Taupo, Waitomo Caves, National ParkA couple of whirlwind days up ahead. First stop: Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, larger than...
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Review: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove, Book 1Tags: American lit, Western, Wild West, cowboys, Pulitzer PrizeSummaryIn the relatively calm years after the Civil War, two former Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Captain...
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Review: A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Colors of Madeleine, Book 1Tags: young adult, Aussie YA, England, alternate worlds, epistolary, he-said/she-saidSummary14-year-old Madeleine Tully and her mother are living in Cambridge, England...
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