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All Things Books
“I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.” – John Adams
All Things Books. Fiction and Nonfiction. Short Stories and Long Stories. Words on the page. Words on the screen. I read them all. I’ve been reading since, well, probably since I could talk! Happy memories of childhood hiding under the blanket at bedtime reading with a flashlight have turned into happy memories as an adult hiding under the blanket with my Kindle (don’t want to disturb the sleeping Husband.) There’s always another ten books to add to the never-ending to-read pile and always need to do better with finding more time to read.
Front Yard Gardens Why not? The sun seems to LOVE the front of our house, so we took advantage and started front yard gardens. I was not so…
“It’s always necessary…I love you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer I didn’t choose this book, it chose me. I’ve had it on my to-read…
I can’t believe one year I read 88 books. And this past year? I only made 36. 2015 I will read AT LEAST one book a week. I…
A Evening at Crown Hill
Surefire Way To Make Sure You Aren’t Pregnant 2.5 weeks late with your period? Want to be pregnant but keep getting negative tests? Wanna know the surefire way…
When Hunger Games hit the theater I was surprised that HWMMS wanted to go see it, opening weekend. I of course still planned on reading the series so…
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat “Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you’re not careful it will…
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout “Angie, leaning her head now against the hallway wall, fingering her black skirt, felt she had figured something out too late, and that…
Moose: A Memoir Oh no. This is why I hate promising myself I will do a quick blurb on every book I read…because sometimes, the books I read…
The first book I finished reading in 2011 is Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen. I bought this one from B&N in hardcover because I just had to…
Top Ten Most Inspirational Characters 1. Mary Matalin and James Carville, All’s Fair in Love and War and Running for President In fairness, they aren’t fictional characters…however they…
One of my most favourite authors in the whole wide world is Jeanette Winterson. I have read and reread The Passion and Written on the Body countless times….
“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” Ah, I haven’t picked up a Very Good Book in a Very Long Time. Until Monday night. I read The Sun Also…
Last night, I couldn’t quiet my mind. (I admit this is me, most nights.) Past my bedtime, lights off and getting later by the minute. So instead of…
You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life I read this book a few weeks ago and remember marking LOTS of passages to blog. You’re…
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose Um… How do I say this without sounding UNenlightened? Meh, this book wasn’t anything great. Mostly I read along saying…
Clan of the Cave Bear. One of my new to this year, devastatingly handsome and bow-tie wearing book loving friends recommended this book to me. He said the…
The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century First of all, very clever book cover. With that said I should dive…
Foucault’s Pendulum “The thinking person’s Da Vinci Code” Good golly. I picked this book off the shelf last weekend, browsed it quickly and put it by my bed…
Give It Up!: My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less I almost gave up this book at Page 3 “Would it be possible to live without…
Reckless: The Outrageous Lives of Nine Kick-Ass Women Twas a quick read. A book I had on the wish list over at PaperbackSwap.com that came in the…
The Road. Ugh. People like this book? Best Book of the Year? MOVIE? REALLY? Am I missing something? Because I thought it was AWFUL I almost gave up,…
The Art of War: To Win Without Fighting is Best The Art Of War “Deep knowledge is to be aware of the disturbance before disturbance, to be aware…
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit “As it is, I can’t settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know…
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson The other night I cuddled up with a little light reading. Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson I…
Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from a friend. She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and…
I recently breezed through Jeffrey Toobin’s new book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. Hmmm. The Secret World? Perhaps I am too much of…