http://www.devourerofbooks.com Memoirs of a Ravenous Reader Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:52:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, this is the fewest books I have read in a month since I started blogging, I only read 8 books, down one even from last month, mostly due to the lingering effects of my reading funk earlier this month.  Even worse, I have only reviewed 5 of the 8 ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/12/november-reading-wrap-up/ Blog Widgets. Do you use them? Do you have them on your blog? Do you know what I'm talking about? :-) A blog widget is that list of books "From my LibraryThing" and such, that you'll sometimes see on someone's sidebar. If you use it, do all of your books ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/tuesday-thingers-widgets/ Cassandra and Jane by Jill Pitkeathley Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra were the only two daughters in their family and neither of them married, resulting in a life-long close relationship between the two.  "Cassandra and Jane" is told from Cassandra's point of view, after Jane's death as Cassandra is looking ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/cassandra-and-jane-book-review/ Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade by Nicole Galland "Crossed" is a somewhat eccentric tale of the 4th Crusade, un utterly ludicrous adventure if ever there was one.  The primary narrator is a Briton (and is called 'The Briton' by the other characters) who inadvertantly falls in with the German ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/crossed-a-tale-of-the-fourth-crusade-book-review/ I know I said I might just pick someone for one of the sets of these books if they had a very compelling reason, but I was simply not expecting the huge response to this giveaway!  I had 19 entries in just a few short days, many of which included ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/the-reincarnationist-and-the-memorist-giveaway-winners/ The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth Unless I am mistaken, Elizabeth of York is the only woman in English history ever to have been daughter, sister, niece, wife, and mother to English kings.  If there is any woman whose life was dramatic enough to write about, it is probably Elizabeth. Elizabeth lived ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/the-kings-daughter-book-review/ I’ve asked, in the past, about whether you more often buy your books, or get them from libraries. What I want to know today, is, WHY BUY? Even if you are a die-hard fan of the public library system, I’m betting you have at least ONE permanent resident of your bookshelves ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/btt-why-buy/ On Monday I reviewed The Memorist and let you all know that I had two sets of The Memorists and the previous book in the series, The Reincarnationist, to give away to two lucky winners.  Simply tell me WHY you want these books between now and Sunday night and I'll ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/the-memorist-and-the-reincarnationist-giveaway/ Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage When Nate was young, he lived as a junkie in San Francisco with his partner Cat and their small daughter Willa.  When Cat's AIDS begins to kill her in earnest, she decides they will have to give Willa up for adoption. Fast forward to Willa's high school ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/somebody-elses-daughter-book-review-and-blog-tour/ LT Things- t-shirts, bags,cue cats- are you into the "stuff"? Do you use a cuecat to enter your books, or do you enter them manually? What do you think of the stuff? The only thing I have ever bought from LibraryThing was my lifetime membership about a week after I discovered ... http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/11/tuesday-thingers-bookish-paraphernalia/