Bree Tanner
Posted on June 27, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult | 1 Comment
Damn Stephenie Meyer. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner was good. Really good. I hate it when I don’t want to like something and then I do. I sure wish Eclipse had ended differently. I liked Bree. And Diego. And Fred.
If you’ve read the other Twilight books, you should read this one. You [...]
Read More..>>Cybils Children’s Poetry
Posted on June 27, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Cybil Challenge, Favorites, Poetry | 2 Comments
I knocked out all of the shortlisted poetry books from the Cybils list last night:
African Acrostics The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry The Monsterologist Red Sings from Treetops The Tree that Time Built
I enjoyed The Monsterologist quite a bit. Quick, amusing, great illustrations. African Acrostics was excellent, a nice way to expose kids [...]
Read More..>>Cybil’s Children’s Non-Fiction (The Last Two)
Posted on June 27, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Cybil Challenge, Favorites, Non-Fiction | 1 Comment
I went on a Cybil’s binge last night. It’s easy when my binge comes from the children’s category. Quick, easy reads that are usually a lot of fun or pretty interesting. Last night, they were more interesting than fun.
The last two books from the Children’s Non-Fiction short list were The Frog Scientist and Marching [...]
Read More..>>Henrietta Lacks
Posted on June 27, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction | 1 Comment
Awhile back, Sassymonkey told me that everyone was going to be reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I admit, I only half believed her. It is non-fiction, after all. And a story about science and an African American family – not really mainstream reading, unfortunately. I don’t know if Sassymonkey is right and everyone [...]
Read More..>>Hello Kitty Must Die
Posted on June 22, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Women | 1 Comment
I love the “Just Returned” shelf of the library. I always find interesting things there. Things like a book with a hot pink cover called Hello Kitty Must Die. If you like Dexter, you’re going to like this book. You might even like this book more than you like Dexter. (I know, I’m scaring you [...]
Read More..>>Alt Ed
Posted on June 21, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Fiction, Young Adult | 1 Comment
Alt Ed is like The Breakfast Club but without Ally Sheedy. Or without any of the really cool characters that made up The Breakfast Club, now that I think about it. The Breakfast Club Lite? Errr. It wasn’t a bad book, it was a nice book. But it’s impossible to not compare it to the [...]
Read More..>>Two for the Road
Posted on June 20, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction, cookbooks | Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of “Roadfood” and if I liked food in general just a little bit more… and also travel just a little bit more than that… I’d be envious of Jane and Michael Stern. What better job than to drive across the country, eating at diners and truck stops and hole in the [...]
Read More..>>Homicide in Hardcover
Posted on June 19, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Mystery, Women | Leave a Comment
I read the second book in the Bibliophile Mystery series before I read the first. I hate it when that happens so I reserved the first one, Homicide in Hardcover, to get the back story. It was an ok book but the second one was much better, I think. (And how often does that happen?) [...]
Read More..>>Last week on BlogHer
Posted on June 18, 2010 - Filed Under Daily Dose | 2 Comments
I’ve been so darn busy with “secret projects” (hah) at work that I haven’t had much time to actually read the blog posts that editors at BlogHer.com are writing. I just took a lunch break and played catch up a wee bit. There were some pretty fabulous posts written while I was distracted – So [...]
Read More..>>Syren
Posted on June 18, 2010 - Filed Under 2010, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Favorites, From the Stacks Challenge, Sci Fi and Fantasy | 2 Comments
I received a review copy of Syren AGES ago and I put off reading it because I’d fallen behind on the Septimus Heap series and I thought I’d catch up and then read it. (TW and Prince J both read it ages ago and liked it a good bit…) I realized in January that I [...]
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