Book Reviews and a Little More…
June in general wasn’t a bad reading month for me, but the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a drag. I finally finished R.J. Ellory’s The Anniversary Man, which was good (full review coming soon), but in a different way than A Quiet Belief in Angels. I thought Angels was lyrical and beautiful, but Anniversary Man had more of a police procedural
Read moreIt’s been a loooooooong time since I posted anything conversational on this here blog. In fact, the last time I posted anything that wasn’t a review or Read-a-Thon related was the end of March. Oy. I’ve been in a little bit of a funk. Winter and spring are surprisingly hard for me, the past few years. I get stuck in routines (ruts, even), and the
Read moreI don’t know about you, but I thought it was a pretty successful read-a-thon! Here are my final stats: Number of books completed: 3 1/2 Pages read: 668 + 2:28 on audio Time spent reading: 10:10 Mini-challenges completed: Hour One meme I don’t think that’s too bad! I had more total reading time than I had last read-a-thon, but I quit at about the same
Read moreI seem to have had a string of bad luck with books lately! I’ve had to abandon three books in the past month or so. So disappointing. I’m not doing full reviews of books I don’t finish, but I thought I’d write a little about them here. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat This collection of short stories just didn’t grab me. The first two
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