Hello All! I hope your summer is going well. I figure we’re somewhere around the mid-point of #20BooksofSummer (but am too lazy to do any actual counting), so I thought I’d check in and share how things have been going so far. I’m happy to say that I’ve read five books on the list: Oral … Continue reading #10BooksofSummer Check-in
Category: Mystery
Reader’s Journal: UNSUB
I could say that I picked up Meg Gardiner’s UNSUB on a whim, but that wouldn’t be exactly true. For one thing, I read her first book, China Lake, back in 2011. That was the first in her Evan Delaney series, and the only one I read—not because I didn’t enjoy it (I did!), but … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: UNSUB
Reader’s Journal: Norwegian by Night
At the age of 82, Sheldon Horowitz has been transplanted from Manhattan to Oslo, Norway. Sheldon's granddaughter Rhea brings Sheldon to Oslo to live with her and her husband Lars after the death of her grandmother, Mabel. Rhea believes, as did the late Mabel, that Sheldon is suffering from dementia that started when his son … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: Norwegian by Night
January Reading Wrap-Up
Over the last few years, January has been one of my better months for blogging. This year, even though I’ve been reading steadily, the idea of sitting down and writing about books has seemed kind of pointless. Many other book bloggers have expressed this same anxiety and heart-heaviness and wonder about the use of it … Continue reading January Reading Wrap-Up
Ten Books I Picked up on a Whim (Or Every Book I Ever Picked Up, Ever)
The thing about being a reader who has a (mostly neglected) book blog and a Twitter account where I follow all sorts of bookish accounts (book bloggers, critics, authors, publishers) is that it’s very, very difficult to avoid being influenced in some way when it comes to what I read. Everything on my TBR is … Continue reading Ten Books I Picked up on a Whim (Or Every Book I Ever Picked Up, Ever)
If Books Were Wishes: 10 Recent Adds to the TBR
For today's Top Ten (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish), we've all been asked to list the top ten recent additions to our TBR queue. Now I don't know about you, but I have two TBR queues, really: one for books I want to read, and one for books I own, but because I … Continue reading If Books Were Wishes: 10 Recent Adds to the TBR
Reader’s Journal: The Girl on the Train
My first book of the year for 2015 was going to be The Girl on the Train. I had pre-ordered it in the fall of 2014 in great anticipation because it was getting such terrific early notices. This was before all the (highly inaccurate) Gone Girl comparisons. Taken alone, the book’s description sounded interesting. Taken alone, … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: The Girl on the Train
Strange Things Are Afoot in Area X
I have never read anything quite like Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation, the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy. A psychologist, a linguist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a biologist all walk into a bar. Okay, not a bar, but a place called Area X, beyond the border of civilization, where thirty years before, something bad … Continue reading Strange Things Are Afoot in Area X
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books of Summer
I'm late to the party, and really only joining for half. Today's Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) asks us about the top books on our summer TBR list, and that coincides quite nicely with Cathy's #20BooksofSummer challenge (although I am only doing 10 because I have become the world's slowest … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books of Summer
Reader’s Journal: Lake of Sorrows
For my second book for Reading Ireland Month (well, also my final book I guess, although I started Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand That First Held Mine on Saturday, so that sort of counts, doesn't it?), I chose Erin Hart's Lake of Sorrows, the second book in her Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire series. I read the first … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: Lake of Sorrows
The Evening Reader 