Well, here we are five months into 2009. Back in January I posted about my book-related goal for the year. Even though I haven’t been posting here, I have been slowly chipping away at my stash! I’ll be moving again in a few months, and I do NOT want to bring all my unread literary …
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Keeping Track
I never kept track of what I read until I signed up for LibraryThing in late summer of 2007. (LibraryThing, for those of you who haven’t discovered it yet, is an organized book person’s dream: something of an online catalog of your own personal library that you can organize and edit as you please!) I …
Thoughts on “The Prophecy of Sisters” by Michelle Zink
Last week, a coworker asked me if I wanted to read any of the galleys she’d recently been given to review before her upcoming meeting with the company’s sales rep. I pawed through them and took two. I started with Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink. It’s YA; a historical novel (late 1800s) with …
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Thoughts on “Made from Scratch” by Jenna Woginrich
If there’s anyone out there who’s ever considered learning some homesteading skills but didn’t know where to start, I have a book for you. Have you ever wondered about keeping bees? How about dreamed of eggs fresh from the chicken every morning? Maybe imagined making your own clothes? Jenna Woginrich did. Not sure where to start? …
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Thoughts on “Blonde Roots” by Bernardine Evaristo
Well, I just finished Blonde Roots, a novel by Bernardine Evaristo. I can’t say much about the plot without giving important twists away. The novel follows the life of a slave in an alternate retelling of history, where “whytes” are enslaved by “blaks” and history as we have been taught it is turned upside down. …
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