June Wrap Up & GIVEAWAY!

The Books 28. A Dawn Most Wicked by Susan Dennard 29. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 30. The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe C 31. Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O'Brien DN 32. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett C 33. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon D 34.…

Book Review: The Girl in the Road

Author: Monica Byrne Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Distopian Page Count: Around 323, but I listed to the audio book (highly recommended!) To start off with, the Goodreads summary can be found here, so take a minute to look at that. Done? Okay. This book is about two women who for various reasons, find themselves running from…

Monthly Goal Update

Yep, it's that time again. 1. Find something active to do indoors. The weather is finally starting to warm up, making this one slightly irrelevant (for the season, anyway). I've been taking a lot more walks. Our new place also has a 24 hour fitness center, so I've been going there a couple times a…

Books Read in 2013

It's that time again! The annual review of books read in the past 365 days: March 1. Sew Retro--Judi Ketteler 2. Etiquette and Espionage--Gail Carriger April 3. The Diviners--Libba Bray May 4. Mountain Echoes--C.E. Murphy 5. A Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens June 6. Their Skeletons Speak--Sally M. Walker & Douglas W. Owsley July 7.…

52 Books Challenge Update & Msc.

Currently Reading: Midnight's Daughter In the DVD Player: Grease Today marks the end of the 5th month of the 52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge. This week I entered #25 and #26 into my log--The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan and Spirit Dances by C.E. Murphy, both perennial favorites on my reading lists. I…

Review: The Cassie Palmer series by Karen Chance

So far, this has been my favorite new series this year. It ranks u there with the Kitty Norville books and the Sookie Stackhouse series, favorites from past years. Alice gave the book one last year for my birthday. I read the back and wasn't impressed. In fact, I questioned her sanity for buying it…

Coming up Short

Hopefully, I'll do a little bit better with the 2011 reading challenge than I did with the 2010 one. I read 49 books this year, which means I was 3 short of the regular goal and 18 short of my personal goal (mostly because the only reading I had time to do during fall quarter…

Soulless

So, as I might have mentioned, I read Soulless by Gail Carriger on my little journey across the pond. I enjoyed it immensely, and the only reason I wasn't finished with it by the time I got to the apartment was the last eight hours of the journey I was so cross eyed from lack…

Short Attention Span

I know that just about everyone has been talking about the earthquake in Haiti, but I thought I should mention it since I just sent in my little donation. If you would like to help out, and especially if you were following the Peace Project last year, then I hope you pop on over the…

52 Books in 52 Weeks 2009 Final List

* 01. Hex Marks the Spot--Madelyn Alt * 02. Almost Perfect--Torchwood * 03. Tales of Beedle the Bard--JK Rowling * 04. The Star--David Skibbins * 05. The Hanged Man--David Skibbins * 06. Backup--Jim Butcher * 07. Pack Animals--Torchwood * 08. A History of Hand Kniting--Richard Rutt * 09. The Eyre Affair--Jasper Fforde * 10. The…