CarrieK | April 30, 2009
I saw this meme at Care’s Online Book Club and decided to play along.
8 Things I’m Looking Forward To:
1. Movie night with Michelle tonight – Enchanted April on DVD.
2. My sister Debra and her kids are coming to visit in July. She lives about 8 hours away, and we haven’t seen each other in over [...]
CarrieK | April 29, 2009
Here’s a quick update on my Spring Reading Thing list.
For The Audiobook Challenge and The Outlander Challenge:
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon – done
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich – done
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
For The Art History Reading Challenge:
Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex – done
For The Essay Reading Challenge:
Finish Essays of the Masters – [...]
CarrieK | April 29, 2009
I’ve completed stories 50 through 58 this week. The first two were in The New Yorker magazine. (Click on the titles below to read them online.) The next seven come from the book Speaking with the Angel, which was put together by Nick Hornby. Hornby’s son is autistic and able to go to a [...]
CarrieK | April 29, 2009
I am really sorry for all the spam comments today! Either my new blog has been found by the ‘bots, or people think I’m bald, depressed, and have ringworm, and really need their medication. Oh, and any money I don’t spend on meds I should gamble with.
Because of the spam swarm, I have [...]
CarrieK | April 29, 2009
Title: 100 Cupboards
Author: N.D. Wilson
Genre: Children’s fantasy
Publisher: Random House
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
First line: Henry, Kansas, is a hot town.
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson is an enthralling children’s fantasy, with a great mixture of humor, adventure, and scary moments. I read this aloud to my four kids (Natalie, 12; Noah, 10; Jonathan, 9; [...]
CarrieK | April 28, 2009
Title: The Last Bridge
Author: Teri Coyne
Genre: Modern lit
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
First line: Two days after my father had a massive stroke my mother shot herself in the head.
The Last Bridge is Teri Coyne’s first novel. I was thrilled to read a novel that grabbed me from the first sentence and [...]
CarrieK | April 28, 2009
Title: Three to Get Deadly
Author: Janet Evanovich
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
First line: It was January in Trenton.
Three to Get Deadly is the third book in Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series. Stephanie isn’t thrilled with her latest FTA – “failure to appear.” Her cousin Vinny has given her the assignment [...]
CarrieK | April 28, 2009
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The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne
If there was a body I lived in, I guess it was Diana’s, as hers seemed more resilient, more lovely than mine could ever be, and so in an odd way it was [...]