October Books I’m Looking Forward To Fireborne by Rosaria Munda (10/15/2019) YA fantasy with dragons and dragonriders. Need I say more? A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie (10/08/2019) Crombie is a terrific writer and an equally good plotter. Her mysteries are perceptive, written with a deft touch and quiet compassion for her… Read more »
Lauren at Bookmark Lit blog is starting the #ReadForGrace challenge to remember and honor Grace from the Rebel Mommy Book Blog. For those of you who didn’t know or follow her, Grace was a shining light in the book blog community: kind and supportive, positive and courageous. She died in… Read more »
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 Friday night, I went to a Romance Reading Salon organized by author Cathy Maxwell…. Read more »
Bookish News In New Filing, Audible Lawyers Insist ‘Captions’ Copyright Case Should Be Tossed (Publishers Weekly) $625,000 [MacArthur] ‘genius grants’ go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers (The Guardian) The others are Emily Wilson, Linda Barry, Jeffrey Miller, Saidiya Hartman, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Valeria Luiselli. Worth Reading/Viewing Why… Read more »
I’m joining the October Blog Ahead challenge, hosted by Anna of Herding Cats & Burning Soup. (The challenge signup is also on her The Herd Presents site.) The challenge runs from Oct. 1 through Oct. 31, 2019.The goal is to end the month with 31 finished, scheduled posts. That doesn’t… Read more »
The Liar by Nora Roberts Published by Berkley on April 14, 2015 Genres: Romantic suspense Pages: 501 Format: Hardcover, Kindle or ebook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Dark Witch, Shadow Spell, The Collector, Night… Read more »
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 Top Ten Books. New Releases & Review Copies Once a Spy by Mary Jo Putney (Sept. 24) A Legacy of Murder by Connie… Read more »
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 This year, we splurged on tickets to the 2019-2020 season of Broadway musicals in… Read more »
Bookish News Amazon Makes ‘Climate Pledge’ As Workers Plan Walkout (NPR; see also Amazon’s press release) 2019 National Book Award Longlists Announced (Publishers Weekly) Tonga to open first public library system with thousands of books donated from NZ (RNZ) Worth Reading/Viewing Margaret Atwood: ‘For a long time we were moving… Read more »
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Narrator: Käthe Mazur Published by Crown, Random House Audio on Jan. 24, 2012 Genres: Nonfiction Format: Audiobook Source: the library Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads At least… September 19, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 5
