The Marriage Plot on Audio

For the past few months, I’ve been following up a read with its audio counterpart. I can’t do this for every book but when I do, I am always amazed at how it comes across on audio. Most times, I find the audio version to be good, if not better than the reading experience but [...]

Work It

After being out of the reading world for what seems like forever, but in reality has only been ten days, I feel the need to push myself to get back into the rhythm of reading. It’s like that little known muscle you have in the back of your leg that you suddenly notice after falling [...]

2012 Book Club Reading List (and some for 2013)

You might recall this post, where I asked your opinion on which books to pitch at my book club’s yearly selection meeting. The book that I most wanted to read, was also the book that I feared would get overlooked because of its content, its overly depressing nature… the fact that it’s about yet another [...]

2012: DNF #1 (The Stranger’s Child)

As much as I wanted to keep going with this one, I couldn’t force myself to finish it. It was long listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and it started off great and included everything that a girl could ask for in a book, but around page 100 it began to lose me, and [...]

Weird and Quirky Bookish Habits

I am in the middle of a reading frenzy and when I find myself in that position, I tend to not want to write about it. That leaves me open to discuss other topics. That said, I have gotten a few comments lately (mostly from non-bookish folks) that have called my reading or bookish habits…weird. [...]

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