Jana Reiss’s Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor was a Christmas gift from my parents. As soon as I saw the title, I knew I was going to like this book – and I do. With wry insight and down-to-earth… Read more »
ABE Books has published a lovely and poignant letter written by Harper Lee to Oprah in 2006, in which she talks about the role of books in her childhood. Publishers Weekly reports on the Kobo-indie bookstores program (it’s not having much effect on sales yet.)The Wall Street Journal thinks… Read more »
Hounded Series: Iron Druid #1 on May 3, 2011 Pages: 292 Add to Goodreads Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish… January 10, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★★½
Top Ten Reading Goals for 2013 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. NOTE: some of these were included in the goals I posted last week; others are new.1. Read at least 140 books. I’ve signed up for the Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2013. … Read more »
Goodreads, the largest social network for readers, has created an infographic of its statistics for 2012 (below). Gone Girl was apparently the most-reviewed book, while Divergent, Cinder, and The Casual Vacancy were among the top ten books selected by Goodreads book clubs. If you love to read but haven’t tried… Read more »
The Bookwyrm’s Hoard is now on Pinterest! I’ll be pinning some of my reviews there, but also pictures, covers, and quotes that relate to books, authors, and various genres, plus photos of terrific libraries and bookshelves. I recently pinned this photo of “Shields of Middle-earth” to my Fantasy board. There… Read more »
I only entered one book challenge last year: the Goodreads 2012 Reading Challenge. I set — and met — a goal of reading 140 books during the year, though I met it in part by re-reading some old favorites. My personal, unstated goals were to read more “new” books (not… Read more »
I’ve had a really busy week (with non-blog stuff), so I didn’t have a lot of time to read articles this week. But here are a few that caught my eye: Stefanie Cohen explains “Why Women Writers Still Take Men’s Names” (and occasionally vice versa.) (The New York Times)If you’re… Read more »
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens at midnight tonight in theaters across the U.S. … and we’ve got tickets! I can hardly wait! Our daughter has knit herself “hobbit feet” — slippers that look like hobbit feet, complete with “hair” — for the opening, and is putting together a costume. … Read more »
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