Book Reviews and a Little More…
I have been slacking in my Mailbox Monday duties! Luckily, I have something to report this week. Four books, to be exact! The first book is a review copy sent to me by AME, Inc. I can’t resist a Civil War story. The other three came to be via PaperbackSwap, and they are all hardcovers in excellent condition. Lucky me! Hope your mailbox has a
Read moreThis has been a nice relaxing weekend around the ol’ homestead, and I have gotten some reading done. I guess it’s been several Sundays since I’ve written a Salon post! I finished four books this week, a good total for me. I finished A Few Demons More by Kim Harrison, The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer, An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, and The
Read moreIn the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.
Read moreWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large.
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