The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend on Apr. 7, 2011 (reprint) Pages: 32 Add to Goodreads Set in the city of Novgorod long ago, the story tells of the poor musician Sadko, whose fortunes change when he is called to play at the Sea King’s palace. Adventure, romance –… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Fall TBR List. Recent & Forthcoming Books on My Fall TBR Here are some of the books I’m looking forward to reading this fall. Bear in mind that… Read more »
Snowfall on Haven Point Series: Haven Point #5 on 9/27/16 Pages: 384 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Snow Angel Cove, Redemption Bay, Evergreen Springs, Riverbend Road, Serenity Harbor, Sugar Pine Trail, The Cottages on Silver Beach There’s no place like Haven Point for the holidays, where… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week The National Book Festival in DC and the Baltimore Book Festival are both this weekend…and… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Banned Books Week starts tomorrow! Khizanat al-Qarawiyyin, the oldest library in the world, set to re-open after multimillion-pound restoration. The library is in Fez, in… Read more »
The Life She Wants on September 27, 2016 Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients’ life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved… September 22, 2016 Lark_Bookwyrm Blog Tours, Book Reviews 6 ★★★★
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. I just watched The Imitation Game… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week Well, I’m back into the thick of indexing, plus trying to get things ready for… Read more »
Deborah Harkness’s annual A Discovery of Witches Real-Time Read-Along kicks off Sunday, Sept. 18! The events in A Discovery of Witches take place between September 18 and October 31. The idea is to read each chapter or section of the book on the day on which it occurs. Some days, that will… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Carla Hayden sworn in as Librarian of Congress. (The Guardian, with interview. Also of interest: The Baltimore Sun) Napoleon’s failed novel ms. goes up for auction on Sept…. Read more »
