Another week, another top ten list! I’ve not done a lot of these in the past, but I’m at the point in my 2017 reading that I’d rather come up with fun book options for my readers than write a review of another book that left me uninspired. I don’t know about other bloggers, but there are two kinds of reviews that come naturally to me: those for books I’m evangelical ... Read More...
Top 10 Books That Made Me Say Yum!
As fall settles in, my need for all things sugar-y, creamy, warm, salty, and comforting goes through the roof, keeping me focused on food—even in my reading. So, it’s perfect timing to join The Broke and the Bookish for their Top Ten this week: Books with yummy food in them. Even better is that while each of these books has many occurrences of yummy food throughout, it is only ... Read More...
September Reading Wrap-Up
Goodbye summer! What an odd one it was—mostly chilly, but dry with only three days got that anywhere near hot. The worst of it was in with the fires in the Columbia Gorge when, even though we live up in Seattle, we had ash settling on our deck, trapping the heat and smoke for almost a week of hot, sticky, smelly weather. My reading was odd as well—four DNFs in June and mostly ... Read More...
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
In the eyes of the church, the Bible was the most dangerous of all banned books...Priests said that ordinary people were unable to rightly interpret God's word, and needed guidance. Protestants said the Bible opened men's eyes to the errors of the priesthood. A Column of Fire is the third book in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series and he goes big in this final ... Read More...
Top Ten Books I Loved Before I Started Blogging
There is a great meme out there called Top Ten Tuesday. It’s hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and each week provides a bookish topic for book bloggers to write about. Two weeks ago it was Ten Books You Loved Before You Started Blogging. Two of my favorite bloggers, Sarah’s Book Shelves and Novel Visits posted their lists and the trip down memory lane was fantastic. ... Read More...
The Good People: A Novel
She felt as though her soul was grinding itself into powder under the weight of her own unhappiness. Nóra and her husband, Martin, are raising their dead daughter’s son because his father can’t. Four-year-old Micheál has some kind of sickness that has taken away his ability to walk or talk, even though he used to do both as a toddler. Now, he squawks and shrieks, ... Read More...
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