In honor of International Children’s Book Day (which is today), here are some of the recent favorite kids books in our house. The Creature Department by Robert Paul Weston is so awesome. Two kids discover that the success of the Google… Read more ›
These are the books I read last week. Most of them were library books, which doesn’t help me toward my goal of reading more of the hundreds of books I have on the Haunted Kindle, but it does help me… Read more ›
I’ve been reading a lot and not writing a lot, so I’m a bit behind. This month’s worth of books are kind of all over the place, but they were all really good reads. The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton is… Read more ›
I started a number of books this week that I ended up abandoning, but here’s what I finished this week. Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou is breathtaking. I read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in high… Read more ›
Lots of good books over the last two weeks, and I’ve succeeded in not buying any new books for another two weeks. Go me! Go the library! Go the Haunted Kindle! The Just City by Jo Walton has an intriguing premise-… Read more ›
words The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale is fascinating. In 1860 a 3 year old boy was murdered on the grounds of  his family’s estate. As he was… Read more ›
Aaaaah! I get behind a week and all of the sudden there’s a million books to post about. Ok, so just 8. But still. I’ve been reading really good stuff. Come Hell or Highball: A Mystery (Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries)… Read more ›
One of my goals this year is to buy less books (isn’t it every year?) and I’m going to achieve this goal by reading what’s already on the Haunted Kindle and utilizing the library. I’ve missed the library so much.… Read more ›
This is the first year that I’ve taken a look at what year the books I read were published, so I’m actually able to put together a list of my favorite books that came out this year. Â Interestingly, the majority… Read more ›
Here’s what I read over the last week or so of the year. Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist was a bit of a hard book to get my head around to begin with. It’s a series… Read more ›