Devourer of Books

Storm Over Morocco
Frank Romano
ISBN 9781934209431, $17.99, Publication Date February 3, 2007
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views 05/08
Travel Dysfunction
3 Stars
Frank Romano tells the story of his youth and his attempts to find himself in “Storm Over Morocco.” For quite a while I wondered why exactly he chose to write this book and tell this story, [...]

The Early Reviewers group on LibraryThing decided a week or so ago that we all need to share our book blogs with one another. From that decision, an idea was formed to do a once-per-week blogging circle/prompt along the lines of Booking Through Thursday.
Our goal today is simply to introduce ourselves and our blogs. [...]

The Last Queen: A Novel
C.W. Gortner
Ballantine Books
ISBN 978-0-345-50184-4, $25.00, Tentative Release date July 29, 2008
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views 04/08
Juana La Loca
4.5 Stars
C.W. Gortner’s “The Last Queen: A Novel” has all of the hallmarks of the typical historical fiction novel that is so popular today. Juana is a passionate woman who strongly desires [...]

I have started to get a fair number of books that need to be read (and usually reviewed) at or by a certain time. I’m currently on my 4th consecutive win of Early Reviewer books, I’m beginning reviewing on ReaderViews, I’m taking part in a few theme reads on LibraryThing, I’m getting an ARC [...]

My application has been accepted and I will be reviewing books, about two per month, for Reader Views. When I first sent my application in, they said that they were not currently looking for reviewers, but I got an email this morning asking if I were still interested. Since I answered in the affirmative, I [...]