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 Amazon Pulls Some Nazi-Themed, Offensive Items After Criticism, But Many Remain (NPR) This disturbs me on two counts. On the one hand, by… 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 Popular Books That Lived Up To the Hype. It’s hard to know where to draw the line between run-of-the-mill advance publicity… Read more »
All Night Long on January 3, 2006 Pages: 416 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home-and Irene walked in to… July 30, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 4 ★★★★
August 2018 Books I’m Looking Forward To Pale as Death by Heather Graham (July 31) OK, technically this is a July book, but I’m not going to get my hands on it until at least August, so I’m counting it. Graham’s Krewe of Hunters books are quick, guilty-pleasure reads… 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 Mr. Bookwyrm was on travel most of the week, so I was on my… 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 Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of the Odyssey, dating from the 3rd century CE. (The Guardian) ‘Lost chapters’… Read more »
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley Published by Audible Studios, Sourcebooks Landmark on Nov. 22, 2016 (Audible edition; book first published 1997) Genres: Fiction Pages: 421 Format: Audiobook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Named of the… July 26, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★★
WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. Spinning I finished spinning the Hickory Dickory yarn, and plied it together. I’m not thrilled with how the colors came out, but the yarn… Read more »
Review I had mixed feelings about Kenneth Brannagh’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (2017), which Mr. Bookwyrm and I watched a few weeks ago. On the one hand, the cinematography is beautiful, and the actors’ performances range from good to excellent. On the other hand, the adaptation departs from the… July 24, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Movie reviews 6
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 Another relatively quiet week, punctuated by several trips to town and one to the… Read more »
