Devourer of Books

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 [...]

Special thanks to author Jerramy Fine for today’s guest post. I read her book, “Someday My Prince Will Come” earlier this year and loved it. If you love this excerpt, you can buy the book on Amazon.
Hello !
My name is Jerramy Fine. (Even though I’m probably the girliest girl you’ll ever meet, my [...]

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
“Ex Libris” is Anne Fadiman’s love song to books. A collection of essays on books and bibliophilia, Fadiman covers a variety of topics that will be familiar to anyone who loves books and words. She covers everything from sesquipedalians (big words) to ‘you-are-there reading’ to the [...]

My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar
On sale September 16, 2008
“My Father’s Paradise” was my May LibraryThing Early Reviewers book and it ranks with “The 19th Wife” as one of the most outstanding books I’ve gotten from the program. This is a refreshingly honest and candid book that focuses in on a story many people [...]

I read 14 books in May. I likely would have read more, had it not been for the reading ennui I experienced near the beginning of the month and the resulting theme read of some long books. If I hadn’t had two four-hour plane rides and a fair amount of time in airports and on [...]

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, [...]