Posted in Books on Jun 4th, 2007
I’m still in a bad reading slump, at least as far as modern fiction is concerned. The AQ book I bought the other night was an entirely serviceable piece of fiction, but it didn’t grab me like her older books did. Again, it could be a matter of my reading tastes changing, but I suspect [...]
Posted in Books on Jun 2nd, 2007
For years, my sister and I bought every Amanda Quick book the instant it came out, even in hardcover. My sister was also a huge fan of the author’s contemporary romances published under her real name, Jayne Ann Krentz, while I bought up all the paranormals she wrote as Jayne Castle. But somewhere along the [...]
Posted in Books on Apr 21st, 2007
A friend of mine told me about Questia, an amazing subscription service that has zillions of research books online, and I just tried it out. Wow. I’ve been devouring history books lately, and this site will help feed my addiction. It’s definitely worth checking out!
Today, I realized how long it has been since I read a book I admired so much that I could unreservedly recommend it to anyone. The last such book was Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Right after Gilead came out, we bought two copies for ourselves (one paper, another electronic) and one each for my mother and [...]
Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
