This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Favourite Authors. It’s difficult to narrow this down. It’s easy to confuse a favourite book with a favourite author – but loving an author means loving more than just one of their books. Usually. Except occasionally when you read a READ MORE
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BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | IN DEFENSE OF BOOK REVIEWS
The world of books is never boring. Every week (well, most weeks) I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh READ MORE
MY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY | #8
My Week On Wednesday is a weekly link-up post in which I share with you what I’ve been reading, what I’m reading next, and any other bookish stuff I enjoyed in the past week! (Click on book images to view Goodreads page.) Just shelved: I’m finally caught up on #GreenGablesReadalong! Though I’m READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | INSPIRING QUOTES
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books. Umm… this one’s tough. I don’t underline my books. I don’t read a ton of uplifting books even if I did. And I usually write down quotes that are beautifully worded, interesting, or that I deeply READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #67
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | CHARACTERS I’D LIKE TO CHECK IN WITH
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Characters I’d Like to Check In With. There are so many, and many more I don’t even remember because I read the books so long ago. There are a couple of embarrassing or just kind of strange choices in here, READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BLACK DOVE WHITE RAVEN – ELIZABETH WEIN
A new historical thriller masterpiece from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth Wein Emilia and Teo’s lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo’s mother died immediately, but Em’s survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late READ MORE
MY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY | #6
My Week On Wednesday is a weekly post in which I share with you what I’ve been reading, what I’m reading next, and any other bookish news that has happened in the past week. Just shelved: I only finished one book this week, though I’ve made progress on a few others – including one really READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SWAMPLANDIA! – KAREN RUSSELL
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline — think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades — and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year old, must manage seventy gators and READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #65
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
MY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY | #5
My Week On Wednesday is a weekly post in which I share with you what I’ve been reading, what I’m reading next, and any other bookish news that has happened in the past week. Just Shelved: Almost Famous Women was… well, it was intense. It wasn’t at all what I expected, but READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS FROM MY CHILDHOOD AND TEEN YEARS I’D LIKE TO RE-VISIT
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books From My Childhood or Teen Years That I’d Like To Revisit. Seriously. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Only TEN??? Man, the girls over at Broke and Bookish like to torture us, don’t they? Fine, fine, I’ll do my absolute very best READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #64
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
RELEASE DAY REVIEW | HAUSFRAU – JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM
Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband Bruno and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY SPRING TBR
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books On My Spring TBR. Here are a few of mine: Upcoming Releases: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story – David Levithan (March 17, 2015) Boring Girls – Sara Taylor (April 14, 2015) In the Unlikely Event – READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #63
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | OKAY, I ADMIT IT. I’M A TOTAL WUSS.
The world of books is never boring. Every week (well, most weeks) I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh in READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE HALF BROTHER – HOLLY LECRAW
A passionate, provocative story of complex family bonds and the search for identity set within the ivy-covered walls of a New England boarding school When Charlie Garrett arrives as a young teacher at the shabby-yet-genteel Abbott School, he finds a world steeped in privilege and tradition. Fresh out of college and barely older than READ MORE