Today’s Tuesday Thingers question from The Boston Bibliophile: Today’s question: Series. Do you collect any series? Do you read series books? Fantasy? Mystery? Science fiction? Religious? Other genre? Do you use the series feature in LT to help you find new books or figure out what you might be missing from a series? Yes! I have all of the Nero… Read more
Okay, for today’s teaser I’m going to cheat just a little – sometimes, you really need that third sentence to make the teaser make a little sense. So, without further ado, from my current book, Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handelband, page 122: “His hair was long, although he always tied it back with whatever he found handy – string,… Read more
No, really. Bible Illuminated The Book: New Testament is an illustrated (or Illuminated) bible, featuring contemporary photographs and a new text layout. There are no verses – text is laid out in standard paragraph format. Key concepts are emphasized in different ways: boxed, enlarged quotes; red text; yellow highlighting. Nearly every page has a photograph – they come in different… Read more
Lizzy Anne over at Pigtails & Snails is having a Quilt Giveaway! Now, whatever you do, do not go over there and fall in love with this quilt, because I wanna win this one! It looks fabulous and would go great in my living room. The link will take you to her giveaway. Read more
I am working my way through the Elvis Cole novels by Robert Crais. I’m not reading them in any particular order – however they happen to turn up at the library or the bookstore is fine with me. I am glad, though, to have read this one fairly early on. It gives a fascinating look at Elvis’ family history and… Read more
From The Boston Bibliophile: Today’s question: Early Reviewers- do you participate? How many books (approximately) have you received through the program? Have you liked them generally? What’s your favorite ER book? Do you participate in the discussion group on LT? Yes! Early Reviewers is one of my favorite things about LT! The books I’ve received have been a mixed bag… Read more
It’s Tuesday again! You know the rules – open your current book, choose two sentences, don’t give away any spoilers. I’m currently reading two books, Legerdemain, by James Heaphey (pretty dry – I was hard-pressed last week to find a quote to use) and my commute book, The Watchman by Robert Crais. In this book, Joe Pike – sidekick in… Read more
When Georgia Post says short stories, she means it. None of the 25 stories in this volume are more than about 2 pages long. They are all on the same theme: marriage or the lack thereof. There are wives who want to hang on to their husbands, husbands cheating on their wives, widows who want desperately to be remarried and… Read more
In 1666, sixteen years after his death, the bones of Rene Descartes were dug up in the middle of the night and transported from Sweden to France under the watchful eye of the French ambassador. This was only the beginning of the journey for Descartes’ bones, which, over the next 350 years, were fought over, stolen, sold, revered as relics,… Read more
Most people have never heard of the Trouser Wars of 1964, probably because they didn’t actually happen. That is Forgotten Fashion by Kate Hahn in a nutshell – the story of fashions and trends and clothes and marketing gimmicks that never happened. Fashion is such a crazy industry that some of these are almost, really very nearly the sort of… Read more