Someone To Love by Mary Balogh Series: Westcotts #1 Published by Signet on November 8, 2016 Genres: Historical Romance Pages: 400 Format: eARC, Kindle or ebook Source: purchased, the publisher Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Someone to Hold, Someone To Honor Also by this author: The… December 9, 2016 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 8 ★★★★½
Top Ten New-to-Me Authors of 2016
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I was surprised when I looked back through this year’s reads to realize how few new-to-me authors I had tried. There were… Read more »
OMG! Lin-Manuel Miranda & Patrick Rothfuss team up on Kingkiller Chronicle adaptation
So this is a thing — Lin-Manuel Miranda has signed on as creative producer for Lionsgate’s film & TV adaptations of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. Which means he will also be writing some of the music, and probably most of the songs. The main character, Kvothe, is a freakin’ incredible musician… Read more »
My Goals for The Backlist Reader Challenge 2017
The Backlist Reader Challenge (#BacklistReader) is a year-long challenge hosted by The Bookwyrm’s Hoard. It’s for all those older books that have been piling up on your TBR pile and list — not just the ones you own, but the ones you’ve been wanting to read for a while. My Goals I’m setting my goal at 24… Read more »
Sunday Post – 12/04/16
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 heck of a week. I spent most of it working… Read more »
Treasures From the Hoard: The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time Series: Inspector Alan Grant #5 on first published 1951 Add to Goodreads Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey’s novel The Daughter of Time is an… December 2, 2016 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews, Treasures from the Hoard 4 ★★★★★
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2017: Rules and Sign-up
Got a Goodreads “to-read” list a mile long? Have you been reading so many new books that you don’t have time to get to the older titles on your want-to-read list? That’s what happened to me, so I came up with The Backlist Reader Challenge. The Backlist Reader Challenge (#BacklistReader)… Read more »
Happy birthday, Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott Nov. 29, 1832 – Mar. 6, 1888 I first discovered Louisa May Alcott in elementary school, and I fell in love with her books. I owned two battered copies of Little Women and Eight Cousins, which I read over and over. I added copies of Little Men and Jo’s Boys when I found… Read more »
Sunday Post – 11/27/16
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 Last Sunday’s concert went well! I’m always very proud of “my kids” and… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/26/16
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Today’s post is short because it’s been a really rough week, work-wise, and I haven’t had much time for prowling the internet looking for links…. Read more »