And Then There Were More!
The library is a perilous place. For compulsive book-hoarders like me. It’s even more dangerous because my library also sells books at a really really low price. So, I have… Read more »
Category: Books
Bout of Books – My first read-a-thon!
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday,… Read more »
My Reading Shelfie – Dec 2015
And then there’s one more – a pdf book. Two history books, one engaging story about a great personal victory and one with invaluable life lessons intertwined with mythology. It’s… Read more »
3 year olds are A**holes by Sarah Fader
Just when I had decided that terrible twos were a real thing, turns out three is just as bad! Last week, M, my almost 2.5- year old rubbed a whole… Read more »
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
“Death steals everything but our stories”. The Sandalwood Tree begins with this quote from one of its main characters, Adela Winfield, a ‘memsahib’ living in India in 1857. It’s her… Read more »
On My Reading Shelf..
I’m back from the library with my latest haul. I can’t wait for M to nap so I can step into these alternate universes, although just for a short while…. Read more »
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman is a real-life war story. This is the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo in the 1930s. When Germany… Read more »
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Remember my Library Haul post? It’s almost a month later and I’ve managed (finally) to finish ‘Leaving Time’ by Jodi Picoult. I wonder if that is the author’s real name or her… Read more »
Library Haul
I had to do it, just had to. How else would I fill the void left by The Girl on the Train? So I just had to go to the library,… Read more »
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
I was drowning…under historical fiction. I surfaced to breathe, went to Costco for groceries and I found a book which was on some list (don’t remember which one) of must-read… Read more »