Books in Bed

Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t

2007, Books in Bed, Daily Dose, Non-Fiction, Religion /

Well. Religious Literacy…. was interesting in places. And boring as hell in other places. Pretty much like religion in general, in my never humble opinion.

I would definitely agree with the author, the US is a country full of believers who are ridiculously uninformed or misinformed about the religion they say the belong to. And they know even less about religions they do not belong to.

I would also agree with the author that removing religion, and The Bible in particular, from public education settings was probably not the best idea. The problem is that I don’t think there is any good solution to the problem. Americans are quick to cry foul and no matter what you do someone is definitely going to cry foul.

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Prom Dates From Hell

2007, Books in Bed, Young Adult /

A book with that title is my kind of book. I bet you knew that didn’t you? I love fun young adult fiction and Prom Dates From Hell was fun. Totally. I think everyone needs a demon and hell hounds to crash their prom, teach the “Jocks and the Jessicas” a lesson or two and let the geeks save the day. Awesome. Even if it was the geeks who, oh wait I don’t want to spoil it for you. Just go read it and have a laugh or two.

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Simple Genius

1 Comment / 2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Mystery /

I didn’t really want to read Simple Genius. I don’t have any idea how it landed on our library shelf but I’m guessing TW picked it up off the shelf when we were down to no books from our reserve list waiting for pick up. TW swore I should read it. She swore it was really good. I didn’t really believe her but I didn’t see anything else on the shelf that I was just dying to read. So, I picked it up. And that first night I read half of it. I read long past the time that TW turned out her light and went to bed and I almost never do this because I tend to be just a little tired at the end of the day.

First I read late into the night and then today I finished it before I even read my blog feeds. This should tell you something. It should tell you that it was a good book and I’m glad I read it. I might even like to read more books about Sean and Michelle.

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Throw Like a Girl: Stories

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, short stories, Women /

I don’t usually like short stories very much. And a book of short stories is just too much of a not so great thing. Throw Like a Girl might be the first book of short stories that I’ve ever really loved. OK maybe the Atwood book that Sassy sent me, I really liked that one too. Other than that, can’t think of any others that I’ve liked this much – enough to drop into the “favorites” category.


Once again, I can’t remember who recommended this or which blog I saw it reviewed on – but thanks, whoever you are.

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Dexter, OMG this is the most awesome thing EVER

2 Comments / Books in Bed, Favorites, Movies & Television /

You know I love Dexter, the book and the Dexter Showtime version. It’s almost time for Dexter to start again and that’s cool but there’s something even more fascinating.

You can send a personalized video to your friends that indicates the Ice Truck Killer’s next victim is the person you sent the message to. I’m serious. Try it. This is the most amazing thing EVER.

The Ice Truck Killer is going to get YOU next… don’t believe me, go look and watch all the way through… or else…

Thanks to TV Squad – y’all are awesome.

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The Saffron Kitchen

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

I think TW just picked The Saffron Kitchen off of the shelf last week when we had ZERO library books and she was dying for books. These sorts of books I often just skip, I’m usually too far behind on my TBR list to even consider something that hasn’t been recommended by someone. But this time, we really had NO library books on the TBR shelf – so I went ahead and gave it a try. And it was good.

At first I assumed this was going to be “just another Iranian/British book” and it was for about 50 pages and then I was hooked. I’m not sure the bridge scene, in exactly that way, needed to happen – yes to the bridge scene, no to what happened to Sara. Other than that, I have no complaints about this book.

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RE is a nut

2 Comments / Books in Bed, Family Funk, Favorites, Friends & Family /

And I mean that in the nicest way.

I just walked out to check the mail while the tablet was rebooting. The box was full because there was a small USPS box in there. Hmm, I couldn’t remember ordering anything so I assumed TW had. Nope, addressed to me. I look closely at the return address and at first I thought it was Em. But no, it’s from RE. What the heck?

So I opened it. A book. The Pact? What the F……. why would RE send me The Pact. Surely she knows I already own it. And then it hit me. This was the surprise I wasn’t supposed to know about (I do not like surprises) – I opened the cover and sure enough – it’s signed.

Which is nice.

But RE is still crazy.

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The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction /

The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative is a book that wound up on my library reserve list but I’m not sure how it got there. It feels like it was recommended on a blog but maybe not. I’m tempted to say TW reserved it from something that she read but it’s very much a “Denise” type of book so – who knows. However it got there, (feel free to jump in and take credit if you’ve blogged about it at some point in the last 2 months), I’m glad.

It is a very “Denise” book – I collect creation stories and there are some creation stories here. There are also some very excellent stories of other types, all about “Indians” or “Native Americans” or just “Natives” if you prefer. I love the way King starts every chapter in exactly the same way and ends each chapter in almost exactly the same way. Brilliant – particularly for a book about stories – and a book about truth.

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