On My Bookshelf...

While perusing Girl Detective during my morning coffee today, I came across a link to an article from New York Magazine. Sixty-one critic...

Anyone who knits or enjoyed the book Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, this is the book for you! Kate Jacobs has created a well-written book...

Because I am apparently very boring, all I have to post about is finishing two more of Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen mysteries, Jane an...

I really enjoyed Donohue's The Stolen Child from beginning to end. The concept of the book made it a fun read. Sort of a fairy tale for ...

I've been a fan of Jodi Picoult's for several years now after first reading The Pact. I found this latest book of hers to be particu...

This was our book club pick for April. A very short read, I finished it in about two hours I think. The book is a memoir of a woman's ex...

The Road also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. See article here.... Maybe with all the hype I need to see what this book is all about. D...

I upgraded the template to the book blog today. I added labels to the posts classifying the books. That way if you remember reading a review...

Go read this book! Okay, I suppose I should say more than that. This is such a fun read, a prequel to Peter Pan full of swashbuckling adven...

Well, I've read How To Be Good and High Fidelity, and I'm now on About A Boy, so I thought I'd post about the two I've read....

Wow, I'm behind on my book postings! I finished this book a month ago and haven't gotten around to posting about it. It was a surpr...

Cormac McCarthy's book The Road won! Here's a link to an article on the final judging. Has anyone read this? It seems to be everywh...

The book club pick this month was Tortilla Curtain. I've had this one on my shelf for probably at least three years. My stepmom gave it ...

The Road by CORMAC McCARTHY v. Absurdistan by GARY SH...

I have been having the hardest time deciding on a new book to read the last few days. Then I was perusing book blogs (my alternative when I ...

I guess I feel like making lists today. I spent the girls' naptime looking through my last three issues of Bookmarks Magazine and made a...

We read this book for my book club this month. I would categorize it as fluff. It was mildly entertaining. The book is about an Amazing Race...

Since it's almost March Madness, I thought I would check and see if this year's books were listed for the Tournament of Books yet. A...

I could go on and on about how amazing Kate Atkinson is, but I'll spare you :) She may be my favorite living writer. Her first novel, ...

I read about half of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. I couldn't finish it, at least not right now. Not because...