dear @internrachel and @julia1 and bookstraddlers,
This week I’ve read two fairly short, quick reads. The first was The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, 256 pages, which is about a young woman named Taylor who gets the hell out of her small Kentucky town as soon as she can and finds herself unexpectedly looking after an abandoned toddler who she…[Read more]

Okay, so I have a double-whammy for you, @internrachel, @julia1. I read a book, as well as listened to it.
I downloaded the audiobook of The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho a long time ago, when I was on a taking advantage of everything free on iTunes spree. I had never heard the title before and I didn’t really care to look at it. I remember…[Read more]

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I just finished reading Blind Faith by Sagarika Ghose (273 pages). I’m not quite sure what to think of it yet. I definitely wanted to like it more than I actually did, though. Which is not to say I DISliked it, I just…don’t know what to think yet.

The story is about an Indian British woman named Mia who is devastated by…[Read more]

I have a new favorite author: Vendela Vida. She’s fantastic! I love love love her books. I just finished “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” (240 pages) and it was so great. I can’t really talk about it at all because I don’t want to give away the plot, but you (everyone) should go read it. I also read Caroll Spinney’s book “The Wisdom of…[Read more]

Okay @internrachel, @julia1 I have about 6 books to put on here but I’ll do them one at a time. First on the stack is Dragonsoul, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. This baby is 451 pages long and the third in a series, the first being Havemercy and the second being Shadow Magic. If you like sci-fi, lots of swearwords, fighting, magic, and…[Read more]

I just finished reading Fascinating Rhythm: The collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin, by Deena Rosenberg. It was, obviously, a biography about the Gershwin brothers! I loved this book, because while most of the books about Gershwin music focus predominately on Mr. George, this one meshed their two different stories together and how they…[Read more]

This morning I finished Glen Duncan’s ‘The Last Werewolf’ which was recommended to me by someone who is into sometimes terrible novels about vampires and werewolves (i.e – Twilight) so I was apprehensive. Then I realised this was the Glen Duncan who wrote ‘I, Lucifer’ which was brilliant so I got stuck in. Duncan goes far beyond telling a simple…[Read more]

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Today I read Ill Wind by Rachel Caine (337 pages).
I also finished the graphic novel Potential by Ariel Schrag (224 pages, 112 pages in Book Club Pages), which I have been reading off and on for a few weeks now.

“Ill Wind” is the first book in the ‘Weather Warden’ urban fantasy series. It’s about a woman named Joanne…[Read more]

I read The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler (368 pages). It was incredibly interesting and also SO sad, I’m pretty sure I cried at least 3 times. I knew a little about homes for unwed mothers and such but I didn’t really know what massive…[Read more]