Watson on the Orient Express by Anna Elliott, Charles Veley Published by Wilton Press on April 6, 2020 Genres: Historical Mystery Pages: 203 Format: eARC, Kindle or ebook Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads Also by this author: The Last Moriarty A… April 23, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 5 ★★★½
Book Titles That Would Make Great Band Names
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Book Titles That Would Make Good Band Names. I chose these from among the books I’ve read in the last few years…. Read more »
Sunday Post, 4/19/2020
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, 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! Last Week I’ve actually left the house twice this week — my first ventures out in… Read more »
News & Notes – Coronavirus Edition, Week 6 (4/18/2020)
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Print Unit Sales Up 2.9% in Early April (Publishers Weekly) As the Pandemic Rages, Reedpop Looks Toward 2021 after canceling BookExpo, BookCon, and Unbound…. Read more »
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Illustrator: Helene Carter Series: Swallows & Amazons #1 Published by J. B. Lippincott on 1958 (first published 1930) Genres: MG Books Pages: 343 Format: Hardcover, Kindle or ebook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to… April 16, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 1 ★★★★
Happy Easter! (Sunday Post, 4/12/2020)
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, 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! Happy Easter! It has been the strangest Holy Week I can remember. Instead of attending Mass… Read more »
News & Notes – Coronavirus Edition, Week 5 (4/11/2020)
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses NAME, biographyObituaries and tributes: CNN; The Guardian; NPR; Publisher’s Weekly . Bibliography and Biography: Goodreads; Wikipedia; author’s website Bookish News The 55th annual Nebula Conference has… Read more »
Ten Fantasy Books I Bought On Impulse (Just Because They Looked Interesting)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Books I Bought Because… I decided to list ten fantasy and fairy tale books I have bought on impulse from the… Read more »
What The Martian can teach us about surviving a pandemic
I reviewed The Martian — both book and movie — back in 2014. It’s a good review, if I say so myself, and I hope you’ll read it. Just this week, my husband and I watched the movie again. I chose it in large part because it seems so apt… April 6, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Musings 4
Sunday Post – 4/05/2020
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, 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! Last Week Week 3 of staying home is now behind us. The realities are sinking in…. Read more »