I know I'm on vacation and I'm not really supposed to be posting. ;O)  However, I am participating in Wallace's ( Unputdownables...

Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau  Compiled by Kenny Luck Illustrated by Jay Luke and Ren Adams My t...

My thoughts on the book : A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin was published in 1996.  I can't believe it took me fifteen years to...

Queen of the Damned--Anne Rice (audio--abridged) Book description from Fantastic Fiction: After 6000 years of stillness, Akasha, mothe...

Book description from goodreads: Amelia Geist, Holly Schenck, and Tris Holloway are all broken--in one way or another. In a lifelong act...

Have you been wanting to read the Man Booker Prize winner of 2009, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel ?  Has it been languishing in your TBR stack-...

Blog Tour Description from Goodreads: “Will I never see you again either?” I asked, feeling as though I was about to jump off a h...

As many of you know, I was quite ill with strep throat a couple of weeks ago and there was a fear that I might have mono.  Well, I had a rel...

Partners in Crime--Agatha Christie About the book: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to t...

The Poetry of Cats (edited by Samuel Carr ) is a slim volume choc full of poems about cats, many written by some very famous writers.  I en...

Once again, Princess Bookie is having her Recreate a Book Cover Contest .  I thought I would give it a shot this time.  So here is my entry...

These are going to be short reviews because to talk too much about either would give away surprise plot twists.  Without further ado... Sh...

About the book : Sara DeVere is special – but until her thirteenth birthday she had no earthly idea why. As she enters the eighth grade, S...

Zodicat Speaks: Discover Your Cat's Astrological Signature , an adorable book that basically allows you to determine your cat's sign...

This is a dystopian YA book. It is a tale of a suppressed society where the children of a resistance movement have been kept in boarding sch...

The Lovely Bones is more than just a story of the tragedy of a murdered girl.  It is the story of a family and how the aftershocks of suc...

Rules: * Grab the book nearest you. Right now. * Turn to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post that sentence (plus one or two ot...