I read a total of 17 books this month, 9 of which were given to me for review. I must apologize, as I am fairly behind on reviews, mostly those of the books I read for pleasure. I still need to write reviews for some of the stuff I read during the honeymoon, [...]
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
“The Glimmer Palace” is the story of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, a young girl born illegitimately to a cabaret performer and a Bavarian count in Berlin in the first minutes of the year 1900. Orphaned before her second birthday, Lilly would have to figure out how to survive Berlin during [...]
Cataloging sources. What cataloging sources do you use most? Any particular reason? Any idiosyncratic choices, or foreign sources, or sources you like better than others? Are you able to find most things through LT’s almost 700 sources?
I almost hate to admit it, but when entering my books into LibraryThing, I generally search first in Amazon [...]
Two books that I really, really enjoyed are being released today.
First off, “The Lace Reader.” “The Lace Reader” is the story of Towner Whitney, born Sophya Whitney. When her step-grandmother, Eva, goes missing, Towner is forced to return home to Salem, Massachusetts and face her past.
Read my review - Buy “The Lace Reader” book on [...]
The Dracula Dossier by James Reese
Reviewed for Harper Collins First Look
Release date October 7, 2008
In 1888, Bram Stoker was not yet the famous author of “Dracula.” Instead, he was the business manager of Henry Irving and the Lyceum Theatre. How did this man derive his inspiration for that epic monster novel? “The [...]
Hello Saloners, after a long absence due to my wedding and honeymoon, I’m finally back! There are some pictures of me reading on my wedding day, unfortunately I don’t have them on my computer at the moment. The ones of me reading actually IN my wedding dress are in the posession of the actual photographer, [...]
The White Mary by Kira Salak
Release date August 5, 2008
“The White Mary” is the story of journalist Marika Vecera and her quest to find war correspondent Robert Lewis in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Now, a story simply about a grueling trek through the jungle has the potential to get a bit monotonous: [...]
Natasha over at Maw Books just posted what is probably the only actually important contest I’ve ever seen in the book blogging world. Four winners will win two books each, but it isn’t the prize that is important, but the process.
Recently Natasha has become very passionate about getting the word out about genocide in general, [...]
What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line?
I’m not really one for memorizing lines to books or movies, other than “It was the best of [...]
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion
Giveaway information at the end of the post.
Here is a brief summary of my internal dialog regarding “Queen of the Road”
- Hey, this [...]
