Review: Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan

It’s time to head back to school, even my alma mater is starting classes today, so I thought this would be a good time to finally post my thoughts on J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel Commencement. Commencement is the story of four friends, April, Sally, Celia and Bree, who navigate their way through finding themselves [...]

What Are You Reading Monday, 31 August

Thanks to J Kaye’s Book Blog for hosting this weekly meme. I usually give you a rundown of my week along with listing out what I will be reading in the coming week, but since tomorrow is September 1 (OMG, how did that happen?!) I will save my rundowns for then. So last week, again, [...]

Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge: Dead Until Dark & Living Dead in Dallas

In my “summer of the reading challenge,” I had seen a lot of the bloggers I follow signing up for the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge hosted by Beth Fish Reads. I went back and forth about joining for quite awhile. I watch the HBO series, but didn’t know if I would actually want to read [...]

Super Comments Award

Last night I had a lovely surprise on my blog, a link from Deb at Bookmagic directing me to her blog to pick-up the Super Comments Award. This is the second award for this little blog, and I couldn’t be more thankful. If you haven’t been over to Bookmagic you should definitely check it out. [...]

Just in Time for the Fall Chill – the R.I.P. IV Challenge

Here it is, almost September, I have been book blogging for a few months now – making friends, getting followers, it’s all going along so nicely …. so nicely in fact that I have been thinking of hosting my own challenge, when I see My Friend Amy’s post this morning about entering the R.I.P. IV [...]

Teaser Tuesday, 25 August: The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

It’s that time of week again for Should Be Reading’s fun meme Teaser Tuesdays. So how does this work: Grab your current book Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! [...]

What Are You Reading Monday, 24 August; and The Week That Was

Thanks to J Kaye’s Book Blog for hosting this weekly meme. Happy Monday! How is it that we now find ourselves in the last week of August. Seriously, it seems like summer was just beginning only days ago. I had so many posts planned, so many books in a pile to read. I think I [...]

Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

So, OK – I know I am late to the Harry Potter party, but thanks to Galleysmith, who is hosting the Harry Potter Reading Challenge, I am now not totally clueless when someone talks about a Muggle, Quiddith, or even Dumbledore. As I wrote in my original post on this challenge, I had friends encourage [...]

Review: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

It all begins with an anniversary cake, not just any anniversary cake – but a Wazungu (“white people”) style cake. Tanzanian baker Angel Tungaraza, now living in Rwanda, does not want to turn down this new commission, but is deeply disappointed to not show off her style and skill making shapes or using colors. Unfortunately [...]

To Break or Not to Break, That is the Question

When I loan out books, more than one person has said to me – well, it probably won’t look like this when you get it back. I understand. When most people finish reading a book, it looks like it’s been read. Me … not so much. If I can help it there is no broken [...]