CarrieK | March 9, 2010
Title: Going Bovine
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: YA speculative fiction
Publisher: Delacourte Books for Young Readers
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.
Cameron Smith is dying of Mad Cow disease. Instead of wasting away in the hospital, [...]
Category: YA fiction, audiobooks, classics, fantasy, historical fiction, mysteries, read-alouds, westerns |
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Tags: audiobooks, classics, fantasy, historical fiction, laurie r. king, magical realism, mary russell, mysteries, read-alouds, sherlock holmes, speculative fiction, westerns, YA fiction
CarrieK | January 22, 2010
Discussion starters:
~ FleurFisher wants to know which Dickens she should read this year.
~ Tasha at Heidenkind’s Hideaway asks Who is the new Dickens?
~ Rebecca at Book Lady’s Blog talks about her addiction to reading all of the introductory and end matter in her books.
~ So many discussions this week about the latest white-washing disaster at [...]
Category: classics, giveaways, poetry, reading challenges |
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Tags: classics, dickens, diversity, giveaways, reading challenges, TBR list
CarrieK | January 19, 2010
Title: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Genre: Dystopian fiction
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library.
First line: A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.
Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. That in itself is amazing because of how modern it seems. In Huxley’s world, science [...]
Category: classics, science fiction |
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Tags: classics, dystopian fiction, science fiction
CarrieK | January 12, 2010
Title: The Quiet American
Author: Graham Greene
Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my personal library.
First line: After dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat: he had said, “I’ll be with you at latest by ten,” and when midnight had struck I couldn’t [...]
Category: classics, historical fiction |
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Tags: classics, historical fiction, vietnam
CarrieK | December 23, 2009
Title: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
Author: Raymond Carver
Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Vintage Books
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library.
First line: Where this floated up from, or why, I don’t know.
Mini-review: Poetry centered on people and their stories – some I loved, some were just okay. Will post a favorite [...]
Category: YA fiction, classics, poetry, science fiction |
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Tags: classics, poetry, YA fiction
CarrieK | November 28, 2009
Author links:
~ Natasha at Maw Books has a guest post by Bonny Becker, author of several children’s picture books.
~ Nick Hornby on literary fiction.
~ Kathy at Bermudaonion has an interview with Ann Pearlman, author of The Christmas Cookie Club.
Discussion starters:
~ My Friend Amy: It Isn’t What You Read – It’s How You Read.
~ Both Eyes [...]
Category: authors, blogging, classics, reading, reading challenges, reviews |
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Tags: blogging, classics, literary fiction, nick hornby, reading, reading challenges, TBR list
CarrieK | November 17, 2009
Title: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Genre: Classic fiction
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Read it online through Daily Lit
First line: Selden paused in surprise.
After finishing Wharton’s The Age of Innocence earlier this year, and finding that it was absolutely stunning, I decided I must read everything she wrote. The House of [...]
Category: classics |
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CarrieK | October 27, 2009
Title: The Watsons
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classic fiction
Publisher: Hesperus Classics
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy that was a gift from a friend
First line: The first winter assembly in the town of D— in Surrey was to be held on Tuesday, 13th October and it was generally expected to be a very good one.
Oh, I [...]
Category: classics |
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Tags: classics, jane austen
