It is time to revisit my summer reading list. I read a few of the books that I set out to read last June, and I also read a few that were not on the list – more about that later. One book I read and really enjoyed was A Man Called Ove: A Novel …
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Book Review
I just finished the book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, I can’t claim to have read this book, rather I listened to it via Audible. Audible is a whole new experience for me! I love reading, but since I am currently on a very long road trip …
The Nest: Book Review and Party Menu
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is a tale of four siblings playing the waiting game – waiting for a large inheritance that will be paid out to the four adults once Melody, the youngest sibling, turns forty. Melody’s fortieth birthday is coming up but it seems not soon enough. The four siblings, Leo, Beatrice, Jack, …
A Summer Reading List
Summer is here! It really, really is here! I have finished all of the end of the year school work. You know, report cards, student cumulative folders, cleaning the classroom and putting things away for the next eight weeks. I attended a very worthwhile four-day teaching conference, and then hosted a ladies pool party on …
The Rosie Project: A Book Review
I finished reading The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion months ago, and Don Tilman and Rosie, along with Gene and Claudia are characters that have really stayed with me. Why? Because they are quirky, intelligent, and a genuinely caring bunch of people. Oh, and they are also funny! So what is The Rosie Project all about? …
Book Review: Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff
It has been a awhile since I have shared a book review with you. My last one was last September when I talked about The Fifth Child. At that time we set out to read JK Rowling’s adult mysteries. Arter reading the second in her series, my book club opted to read the first and …
Glasses and Glasses: Our Book Club
I just enjoyed another wonderful evening with my fellow book club members. I love that I get together with this group of ladies once a month to talk life and talk books. While I am a new member of this club, attending meetings for the last year, this book club was started over six years …
The Sacrifice: a Book Review
On the surface, The Sacrifice, by Joyce Carol Oates is the story if a young black girl and her mother. The novel starts with Ednetta Frye wandering the streets of her neighborhood showing everyone a photo of her daughter. She then implores of them, have you seen my “S’b’lla?” Ednetta’s daughter has been missing now …
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Book Review
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson is the true story of the sinking of the Lusitania, the fastest luxury cruise liner of 1915. With four funnels it was able to travel at 25 knots. This large and luxurious boat was filled with passengers traveling from New York to Liverpool, right through an active war zone. Even …
The Girl on the Train: Book Review
This month for my book club we decided to undertake the reading of two novels! I guess that’s what happens when you get a group of voracious readers together and you just simply cannot decide on one. What’s a reader to do? Well, decide to read both! The first one, I just finished and I gotta’ …