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Book 71: Seems I forgot to log my fourth book in the Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge:A Christmas Visitor, by Anne Perry Three brothers plan to return to the (relatively new) family estate for the holiday. The brother who lives on the property has died while… Continue Reading “Finishing Up the 60 Book Challenge of 2013”
Book 70 of 60 Book Challenge, Book 5 of Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge This was the fourth book in the Flavia de Luce series – the 11-year-old British girl solving mysteries in a small town in the 1950s. And for once I have read… Continue Reading “I am Half-Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley”
Book 69 – 60 Book Challenge 2013, Book 3 of The Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge The mother and daughter mystery writers took two of their sleuths and wrote them into a story together. It was a Christmas kidnapping. The director of a chain of… Continue Reading “Deck the Halls, by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark”
Book 68 – 60 Book Challenge 2013, Book 2 – The Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge This was chick lit, but decent chick lit. A dozen women gather each year for a Christmas Cookie exchange and the founder of the tradition is our narrator. … Continue Reading “The Christmas Cookie Club, by Ann Pearlman”
Book 67 of 60 Book Challenge, Book 1 of The Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge A Very Special Christmas Novel in the middle of a series about His Majesty’s Spies or something in Regency England. Jane Austen herself makes an appearance (for no good… Continue Reading “The Mischief of the Mistletoe, by Lauren Willig”
Books 61 – 63 – The Glamourist Histories, by Mary Robinette Kowal The idea is “Jane Austen in a world where Magic exists”. So I’m in. The magic is called “Glamour” and is primarily used for art. But there are other uses and I… Continue Reading “Books 61 – 66 2013”
Now where was I? Ah. New York. Book 54 – New York, by Edward Rutherfurd A fictionalized history of the city of New York, following several families from the time of the Dutch settlement through 9/11. It was epic. There were several historical events… Continue Reading “Books 54 – 60 2013”
Books 44 – 46 – Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a book my mother read a couple of years ago. She recommended it highly and a copy is in my house. Then I… Continue Reading “Books 44 – 53”
Book 37 – City Boy, by Herman Wouk Was meant as a sort of Tom Sawyer for urban kids. Herbie Bookbinder is the chubby, smart, teacher’s pet of a kid. Aged..11ish, living in the Bronx in the 1920’s. The story goes from the end… Continue Reading “Books 37 – 43”
Book 36 I have a lot of other books to log, but there was a passage from this one that I don’t want to forget. So: I have been sort of meditating on the concept of happiness for awhile. Personal fulfillment and the meaning… Continue Reading “The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin”
The Next Dark Age 