Books

Books I Read: 2011

January 9, 2012

I read 44 books in 2011 – not bad! Rather than keep track on my site, I’ve decided to track my reading in my long-neglected Goodreads account. If you’re a member of Goodreads, here is a link to my profile, where you can see the books and how I rated them. If you’re not a member [...]

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BlogHer Book Club: The Lake of Dreams

December 1, 2011

This month’s BlogHer Book Club installment is The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards. I really wanted to like this book, you guys. I really did. But it just didn’t capture me. I’m not sure what it was but I just couldn’t get into this book. It might have been the blatant symbolism. The protagonist, [...]

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Books I’ve Read: 2011

November 4, 2011

 The blogger with a pile of books, January 2010 I’ve always been a fairly consistent reader. But this year, thanks to my Kindle and the BlogHer Book Club, I’ve read more than I have in a long time. I went back and figured out exactly what books I’ve read this year, and created a separate [...]

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BlogHer Book Club – Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore

November 3, 2011

A few months ago, Mr. M and I were watching The History Channel’s The Dark Ages on Netflix. It was a pretty decent documentary of a time period I don’t know much about. We didn’t really cover the dark ages in high school world history, except for the Plague. Go figure. One portion of the [...]

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BlogHer Book Club: Love at First Bark

October 20, 2011

Julie Klam loves dogs. LOVES them. In Love at First Bark, she describes three different dog-rescue scenarios, and how helping save these dogs affected her life, and the lives of her friends and family. From the streets of New York City, to post-Katrina New Orleans, Ms. Klam works to make these homeless dogs safe. As [...]

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Case Histories on PBS

October 4, 2011

I have been absolutely devouring Kate Atkinson’s series featuring Jackson Brodie (he used to be a policeman). (That last bit was funny for folks that have read the series.) (Moving on.) There are four books in the series, and even though I’m reading them out of order, they are still fabulous: Case Histories, One Good [...]

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