an adventure in reading

Only one day late! There is nothing that is more fun for me than imagining summer reads. As a teacher, I get my summers 'off', and...

A few of the books I read from the Bailey Prize for Fiction, longlist edition. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, 336 pages I lov...

  The Bailey Prize, the prize formerly known as the Orange Prize, which readers here will know I follow, has announced its winner:  A G...

Hellooo. I'm still here. We got moved, and then soccer started and life got busy. For example, tonight, all three kids had a practice ...

Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal 11 h 3 min The Maggie Hope series follows the American as she becomes a British spy...

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 770 pages Pulitzer Winner 2014; Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction shortlist 2014 I'm havin...

I guess this turned into Maisie March , as I've just completed my third Maisie Dobbs book, following An Incomplete Revenge from the end...

 from Carl's Stainless Steel Droppings : Friday, March 21st begins the eighth annual Once Upon a Time Challenge. This is a reading...

Tenth of December by George Saunders, (audiobook) 5 h, 40 min A collection of short stories, read by the author.  Listening to Saunder...

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield, 282 pages I was one of the millions who started following Chris Hadfield l...

An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear, 303 pages book 5 of 11 Continuing Series Review Questions: Give a brief summary of the...

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline audiobook, 15 h 40 min read by Wil Wheaton This book was almost a little too predictable, and a litt...

Dead in Their Vaulted Arches , by Alan Bradley, 294 pages book 6 in the Flavia de Luce series Flavia de Luce, eleven year old chemist,...

The Bear by Claire Cameron, 217 pages review copy from Random House Canada This book will inevitably be compared to Room by Emma Don...

Books Read in January 1. Strange Shores - Arnaldur Indridason, 304 pages  book 9 of 9 sob! Erlunder investigates a cold case whilst ...

I've been cutting back on the blogging, and never really 'signed up' for new challenges for 2014. I'm still reading lo...

Books and Reading: I finished The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. It is amazing how kids can survive and thrive despite their pare...

Let's try this one again! This is mostly so I can easily find the next book in the series that I want to read, and to be reminded of ...

Not really a Sunday Salon, but it's a weekly update of sorts. Reading/Books: I finished listening to Last Night at the Lobster...

Nymeth and Iris are hosting a Long-Awaited Reads Month for January 2014. It's quite perfect, because I often have books in my hea...

Happy New Year, everyone! Apparently the scheduler didn’t like any of the posts I had ready for the month of December, so we’ll just ha...