Entries from What I Really Think tagged with 'Books'
Official Book Club Selection
No, I'm not talking about Oprah's latest selection (yet), I am talking about A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. If you're a fan, you have to read Official Book Club Selection. If you're not a fan, why the hell...
The Glass Castle
I read The Glass Castle last week for my monthly book club. This is a memoir that tells the story of Jeanette Walls childhood and early adulthood and the abnormal (aw heck, let's say bizarre) upbringing by her parents....
The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
On the flight out to Hawaii, I read only one book. I had time for two but after finishing the first one, decided to watch some TV and catch a cat nap. So the book I read was an...
Fearless Fourteen
In my bid to get "caught up" with Stephanie Plum before we left for Hawaii, I read Fearless Fourteen last weekend. Now, while 13 had me laughing pretty good throughout, Fearless Fourteen did not. As a matter of fact, as...
Hawaii: Books
My Bookcase - pre-cleaningOkay - so with much distraction for the last few days (yes, that's Sammi with the flu but don't worry we think she's on the mend), it's time to start thinking about which books I'm going...
My Book Club - Brunswick Book Babes
I know I mentioned this before, when describing books I've read, but I'm in a book club. We've been going strong now since the summer of 2001 when we read our first book, James Paterson's Suzanna's Diary for Nicholas (so...
August Heat
This is the latest and greatest in the Inspector Montalbano series, set in Sicily, by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Montalbano is on the case after friends of his girlfriend, Livia, rent a seemingly haunted house along the beach,...
Lean Mean Thirteen
Lean Mean 13 Do you read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series? No? What's wrong with you!!!?? Seriously folks, these are some of the funniest books out there (well, at least in my limited experience). Okay - granted - the...
Twilight
Twilight Okay, so my nephew's friend, upon seeing what I was reading on Sunday commented, "Wow you're way behind. There are like four of them out there." And he's right. Twilight was first published in 2005 and since then,...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I love "beach" vacations (or in this case pool) where I can sit around, reading and doing not much else. So our latest trip to the Atlantis proved just the tonic to recharge my battery and help me get...
People of the Book
I'm back. Did you miss me this week? Guess when I'm going through chemo fog, and I haven't pre-planned entries, nothing is coming out. Well the fog has pretty much passed, a bit of pain lingers but no meds yesterday,...
Queen of the Road
Well, I did it! I finished another book. Only the second I've read, in its entirety, since October and this was another good pick. Not in the way that Wishful Drinking was (i.e., my life doesn't suck as much as...
Schadenfreude
Do you know what Schadenfreude is? I first heard it as a song in the musical Avenue Q. It means, basically, "making me feel glad that I'm not you," or "happiness at the misfortune of others" and for some strange...
The One Book Meme
Stolen from Krista who got it from Annie. The One Book That Changed Your Life I had to think about this one but within a moment it popped into my head: Green Eggs and Ham. Seriously, it's from Sam that...
Book Meme
I found this on Andasamo's Blog, Let Us Go Then You and I who found it on Trisha's Blog, The Life of an Obsessed Reader. And like Andasamo, I think it's pretty cool. Here's how it works: 1) Look at...
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Friday, after finishing I’m Not Scared, I started The Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Like I’m not scared it’s one of the books that had been sitting on my shelf for a good long while now that I never got around...
I’m Not Scared
I started I'm Not Scared a while ago but had to way-lay it when my book club fast approached (the previously mentioned Stone Diaries), so finally while we were in California, I finished it. It’s a good coming of age...
The Stone Diaries
On the plane to the west coast, I finally had time to finish my book club selection, The Stone Diaries. Our meeting was last Sunday and due to the craziness of getting ready for the trip, and not finishing the...
What I'm Reading Now
I love to read but I do so much of it with my job, that by the end of the day, usually the last thing I want to do is read. Not so lately though, as I've read two books...
Dolce Italiano - Fresh Fig Tart
Dolce Italiano I don't remember her name but there was this blogger who wrote about her efforts to do every single recipe in Julia Child's cookbook (not sure which one); I think she even got a book deal out...
2007 - 2008 Books to Read
Before Bookcase I don't know about the rest of you, but I collect books. Oh not rare books, not a certain genre of books, just books. And it's really not intentional either. I just love browsing bookstores and when...
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