September 2011
16 posts
Revenge of the Lobster Lover by Hilary MacLeod:... →
The Shores has been cut off from the rest of Prince Edward Island after a chunk of ice removed the only land link. The village is even more isolated than it ever was. It’s the perfect…
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Review... →
Gulp! I hear the shocked gasps as I write this because The Night Circus did not rock my world as it has so many of my book friends.
First up, the synopsis: Celia and Marco…
Kerfol/The House of the Dead Hand by Edith... →
Edith Wharton takes us to foreign lands in Kerfol and The House of the Dead Hand.
In Kerfol (1916), a man is interested in buying a house (how many of her stories start out…
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Friday Bookish Book: Sleepy Edition →
It’s Word On the Street in Canada this weekend, sadly I will not be attending. Things just didn’t work out this year but I did have fun last year so I hope you attend if you can….
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: Review →
Hemingway. Your manly, mannish, macho prose always disturbed my feminine sensibilities. All that fishin’, and bull fightin’, and crocodile wrastlin’ (ok, I made that last one up). Then…
Spam Haiku →
Spam. Most of the time it’s incomprehensible goobly-gook, but sometimes I read it and think, “hey, that’s almost pretty.” I’ve taken some prize phrases from recent blog spam comments and mashed…
Lazy Sunday Thoughts: Playing Catch Up →
Today I feel like I’m playing catch up. Over the last couple of weeks I read more than I reviewed and now I’m in a race to write my reviews before I forget everything. I tend to start forgetting…
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BBAW: Community, the Sequel →
From the BBAW website:
The world of book blogging has grown enormously and sometimes it can be hard to find a place. Share your tips for finding and keeping community in book…
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Friday Bookish Buzz: Back to School →
The first week of school. Oh my nerves! Children are a constant worry. Constant. Someday she’ll be grown and I can stop worrying, right???! Yeah, I know, lies we tell ourselves. Anyway,…
Lazy Sunday Thoughts: Frogs & Nostalgia →
Happy Sunday, Peoples!
I had every intention of catching up on my reading this weekend. I haven’t been very successful at it. So far I learned to play Texas Hold Em (badly),…
Friday Bookish Buzz: Welcoming September →
There’s a spooky little kitty to set off The RIP VI Challenge.
The Friday Bookish Buzz made it to the BBAW long list for Best Blog Feature. If you feel the urge to vote for it,…
The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson: Review →
Eve, usually level-headed, drops everything and moves to Provence with a man she just met. Dom is intelligent, confident and has the means to buy a run down farmhouse named Les…