Entries from What I Really Think tagged with 'Books'
Mad Women
I can't remember who chose our November book club selection, Mad Women, though I think it was Pam who spent some time in the advertising industry. I too feel as I spent time in the advertising industry having been weened...
Unbroken
Unbroken , by Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of Olympian Louis Zamperini and those he served with in the Pacific front during WWII. It's not a story of military battles lost and won but of battles for the souls of...
Empire Falls
I was supposed to read Empire Falls several years ago for my book club, but only got about a third of the way through it before our meeting and never managed to pick it up again. However, when I saw...
Buttercream Bump Off
I'm not even sure that the books in the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries merit being written about here, but nonetheless I read the second, Buttercream Bump Off so I'll let you know what I thought. Predictable! Yep, just like the first...
The Surgeon
A friend of mine, Roz, recommended the Rizzoli and Isles series to me. I'm not sure if she did it after I mentioned that I love mysteries or if she did it after I mentioned that I watch the TV...
Sprinkle with Murder
I found Sprinkle with Murder on my public library's website for Kindle books. Unfortunately, with my library, it seems they have many books that come later in a series but few with the entire series. Since this was "book one"...
Wicked
I've owned the book Wicked for many years, started it once a while ago, and then got the Kindle and put it aside (for some reason, once I started to use the Kindle, I stopped reading real books). Anyway, now...
Butcher's Hill
Butchers Hill: A Tess Monaghan Novel is the third book in the series, after Baltimore Blues and Charm City (soon I will need to make a page to keep these books in order). Now a full-fledged Private Investigator, Tess has...
Explosive Eighteen
Have I mentioned that I love taking out books from my library for my Kindle? Well, I do! And after being 185 out of 185 on the waiting list for Explosive Eighteen, I finally got to read it. And what...
Room
This month's book club selection, Room tells the story of Jack and Ma who live in an 11x11 room. Not to give too much away, Jack, now five, and the narrator of the story has lived his entire life in...
Mistborn
I'm pretty sure you all know I'm a big ol' geek, so it should come as no surprise to any of you that I occasionally dabble in fantasy and science fiction books. If those don't appeal to you, well, come...
The Silence of Trees
My cousin lent me The Silence of Trees to read while I was on vacation and before I get into the book itself, a quickl comment on Kindle lending - couldn't have been easier. She sent me an email...
Catching Fire & Mockingjay
It will be hard for me to separate my reviews of Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) and Mockingjay (Last book) into two cohesive sections because I read them in the same 24-hour time span. As you...
Jumping on the Bandwagon - The Hunger Games
I have to admit, sitting in the theatre a few months ago to see another movie, the trailer for The Hunger Games piqued my interest. So I decided to get a bit more info after a friend mentioned it was...
Charm City
Charm City: A Tess Monaghan Novel, is the second book in the series. Not yet a full-fledged PI (e.g., no office, no license), she's hired by the local newspaper to investigate a potential hacking of their computer systems in order...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is our next book club selection and after not finishing the second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire in time for our last meeting, I cranked on this one (and finishing the...
Smokin' 17
I love the ability to take library books out on Kindle! The only issue is when one becomes available (usually there are waits), you have to jump on it because you have 3 days to check it out and only...
The Full Cupboard of Life
I read The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 5) over the weekend. Like all the others in the series, I enjoy the narrator's voice/style and I think it finally occurred to me why... These aren't...
Sizzling Sixteen
I've been reading a lot lately but I keep forgetting to come here and jot down my thoughts. Anyway, this is the latest book I read (finished it last night). I took a break from Stephanie Plum but returned with...
Little Bee
Our latest book club book was Little Bee, the story of a young Nigerian refugee and how her life affects and intertwines with a British couple. This one is hard. Do I recommend it? Absolutely. Did I enjoy it ......
The Swan Thieves
I found out two weeks ago that you can take out books from your libraries now (if they have the capabilities) for your Kindles. So immediately went online and searched through the available books (there aren't as many as I...
The School of Essential Ingredients
Okay, maybe it's me. Maybe I've just grown to cynical. Why does everything seem so cliche? Okay, forget that. I didn't hate the book but I didn't like it either. I'm really ambivalent. A friend warned me last year (when...
Drawing Conclusions
I'm not going to hold back on this one, I love Guido Brunetti and Donna Leon but this book just didn't do it for me. I felt it sputtered along, without much suspense, a lot of repeating or rehammering of...
State of Wonder
Maybe the fact that I read this book right after Deja Dead colored my opinion on this book's main character or maybe she really is just another one-dimensional weak woman? Sorry folks I think it's the latter. I'm really tired...
Deja Dead
I'm a big fan of the Bones TV series and for years have been meaning to read the books, by Kathy Reich on which the series is based, the first of which is Deja Dead). The story told from the...
Some Random Things
A few things for your "maybe" reading enjoyment. The Unplugged Experiment First off, I'm heading to Hawaii shortly with a one day layover in San Francisco on the way there. I won't be blogging though (sorry - as if you...
Andrea Camilleri - Inspector Montalbano Series
Another detective series - this one set in Sicily 1. The Shape of Water (2002) 2. The Terra-Cotta Dog (2002) 3. The Snack Thief (2003) 4. Voice of the Violin (2003) 5. The Excursion To Tindari (2005) 6. The Smell...
Donna Leon - Brunetti Series in Order
These are the beloved mystery books about Guido Brunetti, Commissario in Venice. 1. Death at La Fenice 2. Death in a Strange Country 3. Dressed for Death (aka Anonymous Venetian) 4. Death and Judgment (aka Venetian Reckoning) 5. Death and...
David Hewson - Nic Costa Books in Order
I've got a bunch of different series I'm reading and it's hard to keep track of which books I've read and which I haven't and in what order these books were published. So I'm going to use the blog to...
Live from Lancaster? Well, My Heart is in Venice
As I sit here in the lobby of the Hampton Inn, as Becky sleeps, waiting to go to her college open house in a couple of hours, I realize that I haven’t finished writing about my trip and I want...
Back to Sookie - Definitely Dead
Yes, I know I just sang the virtues of the Sookie Stackhouse series last week but this week, I finished the sixth book in the series, Definitely Dead and I have to say, I didn't enjoy it as much as...
Let's Talk About Something Fun - Sookie Stackhouse
I don't recall who first recommended the Sookie Stackhouse books to me. It could have been Colleen, who also recommended the Undead and Unwed series, which I enjoyed (well, the first three anyway - I don't think I read more...
Kindle - Collections
Last month some time, I received an email from Amazon telling me about a new release of the Kindle software that would add more fonts and allow me to organize my books into collections. I remember because one of the...
Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman
No, not me. This is a book we're reading for our September book club. I'm not sure where the suggestion came from, ah yes, it came from this list from another book club, supplied by Pam. Okay, I'm glad I...
Elementary Dear Watson
I don't think Sherlock Holmes actually ever says that. I can't say that unequivocally because I haven't read all the Sherlock Homes stories but I have read two so far. Why? Because as I mentioned in A Love/Hate Relationship -...
A Follow-Up - Kindle
I just wanted to give you all a bit of a follow-up to my A Love/Hate Relationship - My Kindle. First off - I thought of another love - I love the dictionary feature. Now if I don't know a...
A Love/Hate Relationship - My Kindle
Back in April, I was considering getting a Nook. Okay, let me back up and preface that statement with the fact that a little New Year's resolution I made to myself was to not buy any new books (except for...
Double Bind
I love to read. I know I've said this before but I do. Back in the day, I would read a book or two a week (especially when I commuted into NYC and had 60+ minutes to kill on the...
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...
Things I Have Done
Stealing from Andasamo, who stole from Softdrink of Fizzy Thoughts, The things I have done are in BOLD. (the list is too long for the front page, so you'll have to click on to continue in the extended entry!) 1....
We're Home
Strange as it seems and feels, we're back. You know, it was weird, while we were in Italy, the world on this side of the ocean seemed like a dream (all be it, a bad one right now). And the...
What I'm Reading Now: Team of Rivals
For our summer book club selection, we're reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Now that's my thing, I think during the summer, when we go two or three months without meeting, we should read a large book but...
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...
Week 13 Results
Well, there aren't any results because I haven't lost any weight since Week 7. On the flip side, I haven't gained anything either. I'm only posting this because I figure you deserve an update. I'm also figuring I need to...
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