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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Summer Reading List: Great Books by Native Writers
This morning I came across an excellent rant by Debbie Reese (@debreese) bemoaning the fact that Sherman Alexie is the only Native writer anyone has ever heard about, when in fact there are lots of great Native writers out there. Here are a few that I can’t wait to read this summer. Continue reading
My Year in Books
I’ve been using Goodreads to track my reading for years now. I look forward to the year end statistics report every December. It’s fun to see how the numbers stack up. I also like to quickly scan the book covers to … Continue reading
Review: Lady Catherine’s Necklace by Joan Aiken
Lady Catherine’s Necklace By Joan Aiken Thorndike Press, 2000 This variation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, is set a few years after the events of Austen’s original. Lady Catherine and her daughter, Anne, are residing quietly at Rosings Park … Continue reading
What I learned about writing from reading The White City by Alec Michod
The White City By Alec Michod St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004 I’ll start off by saying that I didn’t actually like this book. I finished it not because I needed to know how it ended, or because I cared about the … Continue reading
What I learned about writing from reading all 19 Thomas Lynley mysteries in order
Every once in a while, I like to pick an established author who has written a respectable set of books and read their books in the order in which they were written. I first did this back in the mid-aughts … Continue reading
The 3 books rocking our Family Togetherness Reading Separate Books Time
Weirdly, our entire family is happy with the books that we’re reading right now. This never happens. Not the reading part. Reading is constantly breaking out over here. We even have an official name for it: Family Togetherness Reading Different Books … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Chapter Books
Tagged Confederation series, Farseer Trilogy, Origami Yoda, Robin Hobb, Tanya Huff, Tom Angleberger
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Books I can’t wait to read: The Giles Milton Edition
Just two scant days before Christmas, the Washington Post informed me that historian Giles Milton has written an entire book full of surprising facts about famous people. His book, When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain, appeals to … Continue reading
Posted in Nonfiction, Our To-Read List
Tagged books I can't wait to read, Giles Milton, history
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What I learned reading 1-star reviews of Wuthering Heights on Amazon
Apparently, ripping off the iconic Penguin Classic covers and slapping them onto poorly produced versions of the original book using CreateSpace (Amazon’s self-publishing service) is a thing. Caveat Emptor. Related Links: Four things I learned reading 1-star reviews of Pride & Prejudice … Continue reading
4 things I learned reading 1-star reviews of Pride & Prejudice (yes, they exist)
I wish I could claim this as my own idea, but in truth I first heard of this on Twitter, when @elizabethscraig (one of the most useful writing mentors I follow) pointed me to this article by Amber Skye Forbes at The … Continue reading
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