Devourer of Books

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 [...]

It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S., so let’s keep today’s question simple–What are you reading? Anything special? Any particularly juicy summer reading?
Well, I’m not generally a huge fan of beach reads, which is probably normal summer fare. A few years ago I went with my family to Cabo and I took with [...]

I managed to read 21 books this month! This was primarily due to the read-athon as well as my commitment to read a few very short books in order to have more reviews for some of the time I was gone.
Here’s why I read these books: one was for ReaderViews, three were sent to me [...]

Guest Post by Mary Lewis of Blog Stop Blog Tours
When I was a kid, my favorite place in the world was the library. I loved how it looked – a big brick building, with an open porch and tall columns. I loved how it smelled – old paper and leather. I loved how it felt [...]

Since I’m out of town all week, I went ahead and put together a pile of books for the Read-athon so that I wouldn’t have to figure it all out when I came home. Here’s my list of books to pick from day of and why I chose them:

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn [...]

Before I get to my reading this week, I wanted to point out the new format on my blog.  This week we transferred my blog from wordpress to hosting it ourself (with wordpress still providing the themes).  It was occasionally a frustrating week with the new domain.  We paid to have wordpress forward my traffic [...]