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 Harper Lee sets up nonprofit company to keep play about To Kill a Mockingbird running. (Huffington Post) Pres. Obama wants to bring ebooks to… Read more »
Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Series: Eliots of Damerosehay #2 Published by Hendrickson on May 1, 2013 (re-issued) Genres: Fiction Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also by this author: The Little White Horse, A City of Bells, The Blue Hills Few understood David Eliot’s anguish at losing Nadine…. Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Top Ten Books Which Feature Characters Who _____ (are musically inclined, have lost someone, have depression, who grow up poor, etc.). . I chose Books with Characters Who Are Musically… Read more »
A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge Published by Coward McCann on 1936 Genres: Fiction Format: Hardcover Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also by this author: The Little White Horse, Pilgrim’s Inn, The Blue Hills Review When injured veteran Jocelyn Irvin arrives in the sleepy cathedral town of… 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 I spent this week working, and sometimes avoiding working by writing up… Read more »
I’m signing up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. I never seem to to very well with one-month challenges, so I’m going to go relatively easy on myself for this one, and challenge myself to read 5 ARCs during the month of… 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 2015 Puliter Prize list is out. All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) won the fiction prize. The 2015 PEN Literary Awards… Read more »
Today is Elizabeth Goudge’s birthday, and the start of Elizabeth Goudge Week over at The Emerald City Book Review. I’m so glad that Lori decided to celebrate by dedicating a whole week to Goudge, because she’s one of my favorite authors of all time. The daughter of a clergyman, Elizabeth… Read more »
In celebration of William Shakespeare’s birthday, here are a few performances of his sonnets, plus Hamlet’s soliloquy. Enjoy! Michael York reads Sonnet 18 Alan Rickman reads Sonnet 130 David Tennant reads Sonnets 2, 7, 9, 17, 18, 11, 14, and 154 David Tennant – Hamlet’s Soliloquy… Read more »
The Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey Series: Bardic Voices #1 Published by Baen Books on 1993 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 488 Format: Hardcover Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also by this author: The Serpent’s Shadow, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, Blood Red,… Read more »
