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Booking Through Thursday – Returns

athena — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:36 +0000

What book(s) do you find yourself going back to? Beloved children’s classics? Favorites from college? Something that touched you and just makes you long to visit? (Because, doesn’t everybody have at least one book they would like to curl up … Continue reading →

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

athena — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:30 +0000

This was my third Muriel Spark book, and I continue to like her style and prose. There is something distinct and a bit strange about her writing. The characters seem both real and unreal at the same time. This does … Continue reading →

Only The Good Spy Young By Ally Carter

athena — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:49:27 +0000

I only read this because I thought this was the last book in the series and. It isn’t and I’m done with this series. It’s not actually that bad, but I grew out of young adult contemporary fiction a long … Continue reading →

The Classics Spin 2

athena — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:50 +0000

The Second Classics Spin from the Classics Club. As with before, I must pick twenty books, then a random number will be selected and each of us must read the number listed at X number by July 1st 2013. These … Continue reading →

Sunday Salon: Challenges

athena — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:31:53 +0000

Hello everyone! I did not post very much this week, but I read two books yesterday including Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means and the reviews will be up for them this week. As usual, work and fitness have … Continue reading →

The Best American Travel Writing 2008 edited by Anthony Bourdain

athena — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:49:23 +0000

Usually, I read this the year they are published, but I had a busy 2008 and must have missed it then. I usually wouldn’t go back so many years, but Anthony Bourdain edited this edition. Bourdain is one of my … Continue reading →

Sunday Salon: Sunny May

athena — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:48:26 +0000

Hello, everyone! It’s been a couple of weeks since my last Sunday Salon and I’ve read a number of books including: The Brief Encounter screenplay, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino, Where’d you go, Bernadette by … Continue reading →

Booking Through Thursday – What Else?

athena — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:05:15 +0000

What’s your favorite hobby OTHER THAN reading? – BTT Probably knitting, but I have a lot of other hobbies now that I’ve cut down on so I can balance them out. So the more “active” hobbies include reading; knitting; blogging/writing … Continue reading →

The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde

athena — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:44:55 +0000

This is the seventh Thursday Next book. It’s been a over a year since I read the last one. So much has happened in this series since I started it years ago. It remains one of the most unique and … Continue reading →

Where’d you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

athena — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:59:06 +0000

This was fun and escapist. It feels like a few weeks since I escaped and became engrossed in a book that felt faraway with characters unlike that in my life. I consumed this book quickly forgetting about my life. The … Continue reading →