Seraphina is working at the royal court when a prince is murdered. Even though her country has been at peace with the dragons for decades, many people believe a dragon killed the prince. Tensions start rising in the city just as the dragon ruler is due for a state visit to celebrate the signing of […]
Ruby McMillan’s husband announces out of the blue that he’s leaving one morning. She has her initial meltdown, of course, but then she starts getting on with her life. Walter has left their finances in a shambles and Ruby has to scramble to hold everything together as he sails off into the sunset with his […]
I’m signing up for the Off the Shelf Reading Challenge hosted at Bookish Ardour again this year. From Bookish Ardour: About: The Off the Shelf Reading Challenge is probably the most popular challenge there is on BA. The goal? To read books on your shelves that have gone unread for far too long. Selecting books […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It was another slow week around here. I only posted about challenges again. Posted: Books in Translation Challenge sign-up post–It’s hosted here! I hope you’ll join me! My sign-up post for the Immigrant Stories Challenge hosted at Books in the City I […]
Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Please link your reviews for the Books in Translation Reading Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. I’m aiming low this year, for the Beginner level. This one’s always a struggle for me! […]
Colleen at Books in the City is hosting the Immigrant Stories Challenge again and I’m signing up. I’ve really enjoyed the books I’ve read for this challenge over the years. Colleen says, “The only requirement of the challenge is that the books read for it include an immigrant story. The immigrants can be coming to […]
Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Please go to this page to link your reviews. After a brief delay, I’m finally posting the Books in Translation Reading Challenge for 2014. The goal is obviously to read translations of books, from any language into the language(s) you’re comfortable reading in; they don’t […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s somehow been a very busy week, with too much to do and not enough time to do it all. I didn’t get much reading done and all my posts were about challenges. Posted: Nonfiction Reading Challenge sign-up page, hosted here! I […]
Please link your reviews for the Nonfiction Reading Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was […]
Please link your reviews on the review link-up page. The Challenge: Read any non-fiction book(s), adult or young adult. That’s it. You can choose anything. Memoirs? Yes. History? Yes. Travel? Yes. You get the idea? Absolutely anything that is classified as non-fiction counts for this challenge. I always like levels in my challenges, so here […]
Please link your reviews for the Southern Literature Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. Please link to the review and not your blog home page. My suggested format is the title of your blog and then the […]