an adventure in reading

She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel, 304 pages and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana TBR Lite; Women Unbound If you haven'...

Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray, 204 pages Women Unbound; Canadian authors If you are Canadian, you might remember Nellie McClung from her...

There is voting at Suey's this week. Head on over and tick the box - a book that makes you want to travel to that location? It's re...

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, 197 pages Book Awards IV: Pen/Hemingway 1999 & Pulitzer 2000 Lovely collection of short stori...

Mysteries in Paradise hosts a weekly meme on mystery authors and books, highlighting a different letter each week. Beginning February 8, 20...

Dead Cold by Louise Penny,375 pages (also known as A Fatal Grace ) Book Awards IV: Agatha Award 2007; Global Reading Challenge: North Ameri...

Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer, 329 pages New Author Challenge; twenty-ten challenge: before you were born Great classic mystery, s...

It's Groundhog Day! Six more weeks of winter would be great news around here, so I don't care what the ground hog does. Still taking...

Mysteries in Paradise hosts a weekly meme on mystery authors and books, highlighting a different letter each week. Beginning February 1, 20...

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, 123 pages Bibliophilic Challenge; Booker shortlist 1979 Very short novella about a woman, in 1959 Engl...

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz, 447 pages Book Awards IV: Alex Award 2008; new author challenge If you grew up in a house where both your ...

I am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer,227 pages a tale from Camelot Young Adult Challenge; New Author Challenge I knew very little about th...

I'd like to read Revolutionary Road , but it's been screen-plagued by Leo diCaprio and Kate Winslett, (although Leo can screen plag...

The Incident Report by Martha Baillie, 197 pages Bibliophilic Challenge; Giller Longlist 2009 This quiet book snuck up on me and was a deli...

Snow Angels by James Thompson, 264 pages Early Reviewer book (first one I've won in almost 1.5 years!) North of the Arctic Circle in La...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, 292 pages What's in a Name3?: food in title; Book Awards IV(Dagger Debut) A gre...

Voting is very close in the Bookword Game this week, so head on over and give you opinion. By Wednesday sometime, I'll post results and...

I was looking at the Global Challenge and trying to have resolve, when I thought What about trying the 2010 Global Challenge, and making the...

Tales from Shakespeare by Marcia Williams, 36 pages graphic novels (children's comic); Four Month Challenge: a book about/by Shakespear...

Mysteries in Paradise hosts a weekly meme on mystery authors and books, highlighting a different letter each week. Beginning January 25, 20...

Have you seen Sherlock Holmes? Have you read the book? Will Robert Downey Jr be Sherlock Holmes in your mind next time you read some Arthur ...

Don't forget, suggestions at Suey' s for the book that's been cast even before you read it. I'll have a poll here late on W...

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 307 pages Orange January (shortlist 2004); 20-10 challenge (set in Africa); Colourful Challeng...

There is a challenge blog here . The challenge begins on January 1, 2010 and ends on December 31, 2010. You must sign up for the challen...

There is a poll up at suey's for voting on the latest Bookword Game. Head on over and make a decision. There'll be another word loo...

Bart hosts here Rules: Read 2 books from each category, making a requirement of 20 books total. The categories are intended to be loose ...

Mysteries in Paradise hosts a weekly meme on mystery authors and books, highlighting a different letter each week. Beginning January 11, 20...

First Where are You? of 2010. Everyone still playing? Still another day or so to leave a suggestion on the latest Bookword Game - What do w...

Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan, 341 pages TBR Lite; Orange January (shortlist, new author 2007) I first heard of Poppy Shakespeare in S...

Am I the only one with this problem? Continually mixing up two dissimilar books or authors, to the point I am a little shocked when I realiz...

You can win just by reading, check it out here . There are tons of badges and levels, and you just have to read novels. Starting with: 1. Po...

I've completed all the Book Awards Challenges that Michelle has hosted, I can't stop now. Book Awards 1 Challenge Book Awards 2 Ch...