'Reading' Category
Impossible
What’s on my nightstand? Impossible, by Nancy Werlin.
Impossible was inspired by the folk ballad, “Scarborough Fair,” which, if you listen to even the Simon and Garfunkel version is rather disturbing. Some guy insists a woman will be his “true love” if she does a number of impossible tasks: makes him a seamless shirt without the […]Nothing in Particular
I recently watched the movie, Catch and Release. The main female character is “Gray,” played by Jennifer Garner. That same day, I cracked open a new novel (which you’ll hear about on Sunday) with a male secondary character named “Gray.”
I don’t know anyone named Gray.
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My mp3 player is less than a year old, but […]A Crooked Kind of Perfect and Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
What’s on my nightstand? A Crooked Kind of Perfect, by Linda Urban.
It was love at first sight when I discovered this title and added it to my Recommended Reading list. I love that title. I love the thoughts and images it conjures. It’s an accurate reflection of my life, and I suspect that’s true for […]Weekend Site-Seeing (Big Time Fun!)
Okay, you’ve been very supportive of my (completely justified) Orphan Works rants (not sure where that stands at the moment, but I’ll send letters again tomorrow if I don’t hear something). In return, I’ve got a smack-dibbety good time for you today.
The Children’s Book Council will host its fifth annual Extreme Trivia Challenge on Thursday, […]Culture in Emoticons
I hate to cover up Saturday’s post, but I hate to let the blog sit idle, too. I hope you will go read it if you haven’t already.
This is something I discovered earlier this month after I’d fallen off the blogging horse and before I’d climbed back on again. It’s such a cool thing, it […]Another Bookmark in the World
I hate to cover up Saturday’s post, but I hate to let the blog sit idle, too. I hope you will go read it if you haven’t already.
I recently had my first overdue library book. I don’t mean the first in the past year, or the first in the past ten years; I mean the […]Diary of a Wimpy Kid and A Girl Named Zippy
I hate to cover up yesterday’s post, but I hate to let the blog sit idle, too. I hope you will go read it if you haven’t already.
What’s on my nightstand? Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.
I’ve been looking for this book at the library for a year-and-a-half, but it was always checked […]Clueless in Alaska
I use Google Alerts to learn where my products are being shown or discussed. My first Alert was for the phrase “Clueless in Alaska.” I wanted to see where my book popped up.
Oh, look–there it is! (Now I’ll get an e-mail about this.)
I’m going to cancel that Alert because most of what I’m getting now […]Guest Blogger: My Friend, Shelly
You know the cartoon Tasmanian Devil, which for some reason looks nothing like a real Tasmanian Devil? Well, that’s what I look like right now.
My friend, Shelly, who was a reader long before I ever was, shared some book passages with me, and I’m going to make a Guest Blogger of her, and have her […]Larger-Than-Life Lara
What’s on my nightstand? Larger-Than-Life Lara, by Dandi Daley Mackall.
I read a YA novel earlier this week, but I’m not going to mention it because I didn’t especially like it. Actually, I’m still not sure what I think of it. It was weird.
Larger-Than-Life Lara, however, is proving a fun read. When Lara Phelps enters Laney’s […]
