Here’s what’s coming up on the site this week: Monday: My weekly preview, plus some new books! I love it when I get new books, and I’ve got some interesting ones to share with you. Tuesday: This week, my Teaser is from An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie la Cava. It made me laugh… Read more
As promised, I have some new books that I want to share with you this week. I’ve got 2 titles that I requested, one that came unsolicited, but they all look pretty good. First, the wild card, The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana: Two detectives, brothers Borja and Eduard, are contracted by best-selling author Teresa Solana to research… Read more
I sometimes think that English teachers consider it their sacred duty to drive the love of reading right out of kids. The books they choose are not the books I would pick if I wanted kids to feel like there were books out there that would speak to them, that would interest them, and that would open up the world… Read more
Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate, post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes… Read more
If you think of punch as something in bowl with ginger ale, melting rainbow sherbet and fruit juice, this book will change your mind. The Punch Bowl: 75 Recipes Spanning Four Centuries of Wanton Revelry aims to take you back to the glory days of punch, when it was brewed from spirits, spices and not-too-clean water. Our sanitation has improved and… Read more
I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately, which is always a good time to catch up on my audiobooks. I’ve got a stack of great audiobooks that the good folks at Macmillan Audio sent me, and I’ve been putting them to good use. I finished this novel sitting at home, warm and cozy with a cup of coffee —… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! Okay, I am finishing up some… Read more
Here’s what’s coming up on the site this week: Monday: My weekly preview. Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday will include something from my current read. I am trying to finish up a few things that I started and set aside, so I think we’ll have something from The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food by Josh Schonwald. Wednesday: I plan… Read more
Today, a little something about ebooks. Like a lot of people, I have a Kindle, I read ebooks, but I still buy (and prefer) physical books. I have no doubt at all that our books will survive the onslaught of digital readers, just as movies survived the introduction of television, and television survived the VCR. “E-books, in other words, may… Read more
Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate, post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes… Read more