I’m joining Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer‘s March Take Control of Your TBR Pile challenge. This one goes really well with my own The Backlist Reader challenge. Basically, for the month of March you concentrate on reading from your TBR pile. Kimba doesn’t specify, but she implies that the TBR… 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 I Recently Added to My TBR. All of these are books I either bought, was given, or received as ARCs. In other words, I have them in my possession; they… Read more »
Thread and Gone by Lea Wait Series: Mainely Needlepoint #3 Published by Kensington on Dec. 29, 2015 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 304 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Twisted Threads, Threads of Evidence Also by this author: Twisted Threads, Threads of Evidence When a… 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 It’s been a very sad week. In addition to the public mourning… 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 The Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Printz, Alex, and other children’s and YA book award winners for 2016 were announced Monday. The Newbery went… Read more »
Everything She Wanted by Jennifer Ryan Series: The Hunted #5 Published by Avon on Jan. 5, 2016 Genres: Romantic suspense Pages: 352 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Her Lucky Cowboy, His Cowboy Heart, Protected By Love, Escape to You Ben Knight has spent… Read more »
By now many of you have heard of the death of the incomparable Alan Rickman (Feb. 21, 1946 – Jan. 14, 2016.) Mr. Rickman was well-known and beloved for playing roles as diverse as Col. Brandon, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and of course, Professor Severus Snape. In tribute, I thought… Read more »
As I have for the last three or four years, I’m signing up for the Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2016 hosted by Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews. I know I said I’m cutting back on challenges this year, but I’ve done this one for several years now, and I… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn’t. I still plan to read these: Unbound (Jim C. Hines) Tower of Thorns (Juliet Marillier) Manners & Mutiny (Gail Carriger) Shadow Scale (Rachel Hartman)… Read more »
The Masquerading Magician Series: Accidental Alchemist #2 on Jan. 8, 2016 Pages: 336 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Accidental Alchemist Deciphering an ancient alchemy book is more difficult than Zoe Faust bargained for. She’d much rather be gardening and exploring her new home of Portland, Oregon—but time… Read more »
