Notes on Books & Life
I checked an audio version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby out of the library for Banned Books Week. I read the novel in high school but, like most of the books I read for school, it has since faded from my memory. I remembered only a few names and something to do with …
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Sometimes I think the audio version of a book ruins the book for me; other times, it’s the book itself that doesn’t work. In the case of Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife, I think it was both. I am clearly in the minority here — just type “A Reliable Wife” into the Google Book Blog …
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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme, hosted by The Story Siren, in which bloggers share books they’ve acquired in the mail / at the library / from a bookstore. I’m in the middle of moving and, therefore, trying not to acquire more books at the moment. So naturally, several new books came into my …
Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week topic is Forgotten Treasures: Sure we’ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it’s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction. This is your chance to tell the community why they should consider reading this …
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak came to me through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers program. When it arrived in the mail — thankfully, before I left! — I read a few pages and immediately put it into my suitcase. From the first page to the last, this novel had me hooked. I was …
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