To Participate in the Pay it Forward Giveaway Hop: Grab the button below and use the form below to sign-up for the Pay It Forward Giveaway Hop, which will take place during the last week of June (June 23rd – June 30th). For more specific details about the hop and the Catherine Ryan Hyde event, [...]
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 17 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Count Frollo, Quasimodo, and Esmeralda are quite possibly the most twisted, most bizarre, and most unexpected love-triangle in literary history. And if their problematic involvement with one another is not [...]
This week’s original idea for “Top 10 Tuesdays” (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) was “Authors I’d Like to See on a Reality Show“. This one turned out to be too hard for a lot of folks (although I think I could manage – Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Agatha Christie, [...]
This summer, heads will explode. Four book bloggers are taking a trip into the incredibly exciting territory known as Andrew Smith’s mind. We hope you will join Smash Attack Reads, Not Now…I’m Reading, Roof Beam Reader and Lady Reader’s Bookstuff on this journey! This will be a 4 month read-a-long featuring one of Andrew’s books [...]
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Welcome to the “Pay it Forward” Giveaway Hop Sign-Ups and Event Announcement, inspired by the great author (and wonderful person), Catherine Ryan Hyde! Lauren from Shooting Stars Mag and I have decided to celebrate the works of Catherine Ryan Hyde, who we both admire greatly as a person and a writer. So, we are asking [...]
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. I have not participated in Top 10 Tuesday in quite sometime. One of my favorite parts of reading, though, is connecting with the language – certain sentences, portions of dialogue, or passages which really “speak” to me at the [...]
Once again, I am signing-up for the oh-s0-awesome “Random Acts of Kindness” book-exchange! I have participated for the last nine months (or so) and it has been a lot of fun! Not only have I given and received great books, but I’ve also met some groovy new book bloggers! I want to take a minute [...]
Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 16 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was the troubled wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most famous American writers of all-time. Save Me the Waltz is her first and only novel, one which [...]
Congratulations to the Winners of my One Random (Follower Appreciation) Giveaway ! The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe goes to Allie of A Literary Odyssey Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe goes to Rachel (@RachelLShaffer) Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens goes to Kara (@KarasMannequin) Martyrs and Monsters goes to Gef of Wagging the [...]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 15 Disclosure: This is a book that I have read five times, now, but have yet to review. The first three times I read it were in the pre-blogging days, so naturally I could not have posted any thoughts [...]
A conversation with Jan Wallentin Author of STRINDBERG’S STAR Viking; On-Sale: May 28, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-670-02240-3; $26.95; 336 Pages Q. Strindberg’s Star is a roaring adventure—can you tell us where your very first ideas for the novel came from? A. Well, it’s very hard to pinpoint something in particular as the inspiration, writing a [...]
