CarrieK | May 31, 2009
Monday’s Movie is a weekly meme hosted by Sheri at A Novel Menagerie. Click over to check out all the great reviews, and add your own. I took the opportunity of having a house completely to myself to watch a movie that Kevin would never want to watch. Just the title, Bride Wars, would probably [...]
CarrieK | May 31, 2009
Avis at She Reads and Reads recently posted about wanting to read negative reviews. As I read the other comments and left one of my own, I started thinking back to the last time I posted a negative review. It’s been a while. I think I’ve figured out why that’s the case. I used to [...]
CarrieK | May 30, 2009
Author links: ~ Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews has an interview with Gail Graham, author of the amazing Sea Changes. ~ Westport Public Library has a podcast of Laurie R. King discussing her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. Scroll down to May 2nd. ~ Judith R. Hendricks, author of The Laws of Harmony (which I loved) [...]
CarrieK | May 28, 2009
When I was writing my favorite memoirs post last week, it went longer than I had intended, and so became part one. Here’s part two: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls This straight-forward, tell-it-like-it-is memoir is one girl’s story of a nomadic life with an artist mother and an alcoholic father. Jeanette and her siblings [...]
CarrieK | May 27, 2009
Title: Everyone is Beautiful Author: Katherine Center Genre: Modern fiction Publisher: Ballantine Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars First line: The day I decided to change my life, I was wearing sweatpants and an old oxford of Peter’s with a coffee stain down the front. I have seen Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center [...]
CarrieK | May 27, 2009
If you’re like me, and are really wishing you were one of the fortunate book bloggers going to BEA, be sure to sign up for the BEA Twitter Party, hosted by The Book Lady’s Blog. It’s Friday night from 8 to 10 pm EST, and lots of book bloggers will be tweeting away – and [...]
CarrieK | May 27, 2009
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy at Bermudaonion. The idea is for bloggers to post about the unfamiliar words they have encountered in their reading the past week. Click over to read other book bloggers’ Wondrous Words, and leave a link to your post of some Wondrous Words of your own. [...]
CarrieK | May 26, 2009
Title: The Sense of Paper Author: Taylor Holden Genre: Modern fiction Publisher: Bantam Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars First line: Fragments of memory pierce her subconsciousness like shards of broken glass. The subtitle of Taylor Holden’s The Sense of Paper is “A Novel of Obsessions,” and that’s a perfect way to describe this [...]
