Listmania Revisited
I make lists. Constantly. I think it must be the process more than the result that gets to me. Although unproven by Snopes.com, it is said there was a post by the BBC stating that most people have read only … Continue reading
Sunday Salon: The Gender of Reading
This last week I read an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “How to Raise Boys Who Read” by Thomas Spence. I’ve also seen this topic discussed around the blogosphere and have come across reports by ABC News, the Washington Post, … Continue reading
Review: 20th Century Ghosts
This collection of sixteen stories surprised me. Not the quality so much as the diversity. If anyone has ever wondered, or perhaps doubted the power of the short story form, Joe Hill at times masters it, and then makes it jump through flaming hoops. Continue reading
Bad-Good Decisions
Or maybe that should be good-bad decisions? I decided this year to cut back on challenges. Most of the ones I’m participating in are perpetual, long term, or don’t require a huge comittment. I’m trying very hard not to spread myself … Continue reading
Review: Purple Jesus
For some like Purvis, Martha, and Andrew, they search not only to escape this sense of being lost, but to find a place where they truly belong. However as Ron Cooper shows us, ultimately it is not about belonging and finding peace, it is the journey that helps us discover many things, the most frightening of which is that this journey can be dark and ugly and may not end in a way you expect. Continue reading
Review: My Name Is Memory
Oh a whim, I downloaded this from the library for my eReader. I’d heard great things about the book, and I wasn’t disappointed. I only wish I’d know it’s the first book in a planned trilogy. It would have made the ending a bit easier to take. And I would’ve waited to read it. Continue reading
Frankenstein in Modern Times
Koontz has taken Mary Shelley’s major characters and come up with the premise that they both survived the ice, each thinking the other perished. Traveling through the centuries, the man and his monster seek to find, and fulfill a destiny they feel has kept them going. Continue reading
Review: The Dirt by Mötley Crüe
Usually, I pay no attention to what’s written on a book jacket. But the reader, my husband, says this is nearly dead on. Especially the “unbelievable” part. In fact, many times while reading this story I heard him mutter, “How can these guys still by alive?” Continue reading
More Than A Color
I wasn’t sure this would ever happen. I had agonized over whether or not to get one. Then after deciding, I found it difficult to justify the the cost to the bank (otherwise known as the man I married). But a miracle arrived in the form … Continue reading
Review: The Left Hand of Darkness
How the evolution of a genderless society occurs along with the corresponding results are what make this a challenging read. It makes you constantly compare and evaluate our reality. On Winter, respect as well as prejudice is based on how you are and behave as a “human”, not a “sex”. Is the fact that there are no judgments made, no roles forced to play, no power plays other than political, a strong argument for a world or society being considered a utopia? Continue reading
Review: Numb by Sean Ferrell
This story is a lot stuffed into a small package. Don’t let the page count fool you, this book will make you think – and feel, like you’ve read a substantial tome. Continue reading
Claiming Independence
In reading Twitter streams and blog posts it’s become apparent that Independent Booksellers are getting the attention they deserve. Recently, while visiting one of my favorites, Zephyr Books, I was given a brochure that blew me away. In it are … Continue reading