Plinky asked, “When was the last time you visited a library?” About a month ago, when I renewed my Gwinnett County library card so I could check out digital items from that library. Dekalb County’s library doesn’t have e‑books yet, and they make up 99% of my book reading habits these days. I adore libraries. I […]
Review: So Mote It Be by Isobel Bird
Note: This is an ancient review, originally published 10 March 2001, that I’m just now converting to WordPress. Last night I took advantage of the quiet due to having two kids gone on a camping trip to read So Mote It Be, the first book of Isobel Bird’s Circle of Three series. I’d heard about […]
Ooo! Bad Author! No Author Biscuit!
I just finished reading the all three books that are currently available in the Morris & Chastain Supernatural Investigations series by Justin Gustainis. I have no complaints about Black Magic Woman or Evil Ways, which hang together pretty closely. Sympathy for the Devil, though, ended with a cliffhanger! How dare he! The reader is left […]
Book Review: Good Girls Don’t Get Fat
Good Girls Don’t Get Fat by Robyn Silverman My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is absolutely amazing, and I strongly recommend it to everyone. Yes, I said everyone. If you are a human being who is reading this post/review, you live in a first-world society and you interact with females. You will benefit from […]
Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain is the single most striking book I’ve read this year. I really want to talk about it with someone else who has read it, but I don’t know anyone else who has. GoodReads says that none of my friends there […]
Recent Reading
I’ve fallen out of the practice of writing book reviews, for some reason. There are two little widgets there to the side of the blog that always show the covers of the books I’m currently reading and some of those that I’ve recently read, though. Yes, I do keep that many books going at once […]
Biographies or Memoirs?
Plinky asked, “What’s the most interesting biography or memoir you’ve read?” Anaïs Nin’s books come to mind right away, honestly. They’re so intense and sensual that they’ve stuck in my mind, although I only read them once and my copies disappeared 20 years ago. Camryn Manheim’s autobiography was quite good, too. I don’t read many of […]
Books Per Year
Plinky asked, “About how many books do you read each year?” Last year is the first time I ever tried to track them, and I think it was 150+ according to GoodReads. I don’t know how to see the number again, right off. That was probably about average. I’ll probably read less this year because I’ve […]
TV Commercials?
Plinky asked, “Commercials these days: Mostly entertaining, or mostly annoying?” How would I know? Seriously, who watches commercials? Most of what I watch is online, and I don’t pay attention to the ads or they’ve been edited out. If I’m with my daughter she has some service that lets her even pause live television for […]
Review: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars Of course I (along with all Jim Butcher’s other fans) have been absolutely dying to read this book ever since finishing Changes. Sam and I have been talking about how there could possibly be another book that occurs after […]