Welcome to my weekly update for June 2, 2014! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I got behind in a busy May! I haven’t posted one of these since May 4. That’s a month ago! Where does […]
Scott Landon, award-winning novelist, died two years ago. His wife, Lisey, is finally cleaning out his study. As she goes through his old papers, awards, and photos, buried memories come boiling to the surface. Then she gets a call from a man who tells her to hand over her late husband’s unpublished work or face […]
Doc Holliday. To most of us, it’s a name out of legend. The Wild West. The Shootout at the O.K. Corral. Wyatt Earp. But there’s a real man behind the myth and in this work of fiction, author Mary Doria Russell tries to find him. I must admit upfront that the O.K. Corral, etc. is […]
Hannah Gray is now an old woman, reliving the summer when she was seventeen and in love. She’s revisiting her grandparents’ house on the coast of Maine and re-reading her journal from that summer. She was fighting with her stepmother, her father was back home in Boston, and the house they had rented was haunted […]
Rahima lives in a family of girls. Her father was a fighter for the local war lord in their Afghan village and he’s now addicted to opium. With custom demanding that the girls never leave the house without a male family member to escort them, they’re struggling. When Rahima’s aunt comes to visit, bearing stories […]
Welcome to my weekly update for May 5, 2014. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Over the past *ahem* three weeks (hanging my head in shame), I’ve posted […]
Percy Jackson finds himself entering a camp of Roman demigods near San Francisco with only the vaguest memory of who he is. The Romans accept him and he finds himself on a quest with Hazel and Frank, a couple of other demigods. They must make their way to Alaska, “The Land Beyond the Gods,” defeat […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Review: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb–4 Stars Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier–4 Stars Winner of Sweet Nothings by Janis […]
So, since I pretty much slammed Noah last week, I thought I’d tell you about a movie I did like. We went out to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have fairly solid geek cred, but that’s based mostly on my love of fantasy novels and the occasional […]
Malala Yousafzai was only fifteen when she was shot in the head by a member of the Taliban for speaking out for education for everyone around the world, but especially for girls, and especially in Muslim countries. She miraculously survived and now has an even larger audience for her message. I think I’d heard a […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Giveaway: Sweet Nothings by Janis Thomas. Enter by midnight Monday night! Posted: The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin, read by Mark Bramhall–3 Stars Movie Review: Noah–2 Stars Review: Sovereign by C. J. Sansom–3 Stars Winner of my giveaway of my ARC of The […]