Notes on Books & Life
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is not like the books I usually choose. It spent so long staring at me from the bestseller shelves, though, that I finally gave in and borrowed the audiobook from the library. The book was certainly informative, and I learned a lot about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in a way …
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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 …
I heard about Susan Beth Pfeffer’s The Last Survivors trilogy — Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, and This World We Live In — from a school librarian who came into the store to buy books for her library. She raved about the audiobooks, which she was listening to in her …
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This year, as you may already know, marks the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I first read To Kill a Mockingbird back in eighth grade, but I tend to forget book plots. With all the talk going on because of the big anniversary, I decided to listen to the book …
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot would not even have crossed my radar if it hadn’t made a solid appearance on the IndieBound best sellers list a while back. For one, the topic — HeLa cells and the woman they came from — was entirely unfamiliar to me. I’m also not likely …
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