I recently caved and started double-stacking my books because there was literally nowhere left in the house to put them. After filling up my bookshelves, the DVD shelves, my bedside table, the shelves that were supposed to be for shoes, one of the kitchen shelves and the tops of bookcases, I’d started stacking them READ MORE
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BOOK REVIEW | SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – MATTHEW QUICK
Pat Peoples knows that life doesn’t always go according to plan, but he’s determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining. Most READ MORE
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: MY YEAR IN A WOMEN’S PRISON – Piper Kerman
“With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College READ MORE
LET’S TALK | MOST ANTICIPATED FALL/WINTER BOOKS
This week’s topic on I Swim for Oceans’ weekly “Let’s Talk” link up is: Most Anticipated Fall/Winter Books. Since I stopped reviewing books for an established website, I haven’t been keeping up with upcoming catalogues, so I only have a limited knowledge of what’s coming up in the next 4 months. But that’s not READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: BEGINNINGS/ENDINGS OF BOOKS
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is another thought-provoking topic: Top Ten Beginnings/Endings of Books. This one is going to be tough for me, I’ll say that right up front. As I discussed in the last “Let’s Talk” post, my reading has been slow and sporadic for the last READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS THAT MAKE ME *NOT* READ A BOOK
This was actually yesterday’s link, so I’m a day behind – but better late than never! And this week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is a great topic: What ten things make me NOT read a book? This is going to require some thought, because a lot of the time READ MORE
BOOK NEWS | PENGUIN GOES GRAFF
You may not know this about me, but in addition to being a book worm, I also LOVE street art. Love love. I’ve spent an incalculable amount of time wandering back streets and with my nose pressed against bus windows peering down alleyways most people do their best to ignore in the hopes of READ MORE
LET’S TALK | BOOKS THAT WOULD MAKE GREAT MOVIES OR SHOWS
Linking up for the first time with one of my newly-discovered fave book blogs for a weekly series called “Let’s Talk.” This week’s topic is one that I’ve been meaning to write about anyway – so it seemed like a great opportunity: books that would make great movies or TV shows. I have a READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | BOY NOBODY – ALLEN ZADOFF
Boy Nobody is the story of a teenaged assassin. Yeah, you read right. Think Jason Bourne, but the early, early years. Like Bourne, Boy Nobody is trained to kill high-profile targets in such a manner that no one suspects that they didn’t die of natural causes. His typical modus operandi is to start at a READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AGENT 21 – CHRIS RYAN
When Zak Darke’s parents die of supposed food poisoning while on a business trip, Zak is left an orphan. Reluctantly taken in by his aunt and uncle, the only person left in the world who cares about Zak is his cousin, Ellie. He doesn’t even have very many friends at school, where he spends READ MORE
I’D RATHER BE READING…
It’s Monday morning, I didn’t sleep well and I really wish I could just go home and curl up in my nice, cosy chair because I have a whole stack of good books to read! Here are a few that are on my to-read-next list: The Hundred-Year-Old Man (Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared) READ MORE
READING: THE CLOSEST TO MAGIC YOU’LL FIND OUTSIDE OF HOGWARTS
Though technically that’s in a book, too, so…. I remember as a child when I first learned how to really read. Not just laboriously figure out what each word was and then have to go back and figure out the meaning of the sentence, but how to read well enough that I could see the READ MORE
REVIEW | THE MADNESS UNDERNEATH – MAUREEN JOHNSON
WARNING: Do not read this is you haven’t read The Name of the Star!!! Trust me. You’ll regret it. Part two in Maureen Johnson’s Shades of London series (find my review of the first book in the series, The Name of the Star, here), the book picks up where the last one left off. READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE ROSIE PROJECT – GRAEME SIMSION
Don is a professor of genetics whose life follows a very structured routine – he gets up at the same time every day, shops at the same markets, eats the same meals and goes to bed at the same time. Everything in his life makes sense. Everything is rational. Until he meets Rosie. Rosie READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | PAPER TOWNS – JOHN GREEN
After finishing The Fault In Our Stars (aka The Blue Book) enveloped in a blizzard of Kleenex, I wanted more of John Green’s writing. So I moved on to Paper Towns looking for more of the poignant and humorous narrative. The first thing I’ll say is this definitely is not The Blue Book. Don’t READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE NAME OF THE STAR – MAUREEN JOHNSON
This book grabbed my by the throat and just wouldn’t let go. It’s the story of Rory Devraux, a Louisiana teen whose parents relocate to Bristol (in England), giving Rory a choice of schools for her senior year of high school. She picks Wexford, a boarding school located in London – right in the READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE FAULT IN OUR STARS – JOHN GREEN
Better known amongst my group of friends as “The Blue Book” (for obvious reasons), this book took me completely by surprise. A friend of mine recommended it, saying that he loved it, that it made him all emotional and that I should definitely read it. So one Sunday when I was recovering from a READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | COMPACTS AND COSMETICS: BEAUTY FROM VICTORIAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY – MADELEINE MARSH
Back in the day (i.e. about 5 years ago) I took some Women’s Studies courses in college. One of the main things I learned that stuck with me was that the worse things are for society in general, the better they are for the relative status of women in that society. For example, during READ MORE