I’ve been reading Dreaming in French, by Megan McAndrew. I’m enjoying it. But it is filled with fancy words, as though the author has a word a day calendar beside her and is inserting several of these words per chapter. Or I’ve accidentally checked out a book for required reading for teens [...]
Nov
13
2009
13
2009
Oct
3
2009
3
2009
Anne Frank Holocaust Books and YouTube
It probably is no coincidence that I stumbled upon a new book in the library, written by a woman from her own diaries kept during World War II, on the same day that footage of Anne Frank was released on YouTube. I’ve got to hand it to those librarians. They’re on top of it.
Video of [...]
Sep
10
2009
10
2009
Book Lovers
I just finished Candace Bushnell’s latest novel, One Fifth Avenue. It was a nice, fun read. If you’re not familiar with her; she wrote Sex and the City and Four Blondes and Lipstick Jungle.
Aug
12
2008
12
2008
Trashy Novel Review
This is one of the novels I purchased in the dollar store, while on vacation. Obviously, my choices were limited. It’s amusing in an awful way, until the end, when it is just unsatisfying.
Amazon.com: Blood Royal: Harold Robbins, Junius Podrug: Books
After suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her husband, the heir [...]
Aug
11
2008
11
2008
Where should we put them then?
This is one of the books I read, while we were trying to decide where to go on vacation, Florida Beaches: The Best Places to Swim, Play, Eat, and Stay: Parke Puterbaugh, Alan Bisbort. The book was informative. After I read it I suggested we
stay outside of one of the metro areas [...]
