Guest Post: Interview with Kaleb Nation, Author of Bran Hambric

Okay, I’ll totally admit it.  I think Kaleb Nation is a genius.  I remember telling my husband some time ago that I wish he had savvy enough to read the Twilight series and post his “guy” reaction one chapter at a time and in the process create a legion of devoted followers. Heck, I’ve even [...]

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross Review (And How You Can Be Flown Out to the Movie Premiere!)

I’m really happy that my face-to-face book club chose to read Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross this past month otherwise I’m sure I would have read it later rather than sooner and it’s a book that I’m thrilled to add to my list of great historical fiction reads.
There are so many different plot points [...]

First Comes Loves, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite

With a title like First Comes Loves, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown-Waite I had no idea what I was expecting from this book.  I had skimmed just enough of the reviews to know that other bloggers loved the [...]

Video Chat: Being Overtaken By the Number of Books Read But Not Yet Reviewed

I’ve discovered that my blogging must very much be a seasonal thing because ever since it got warm outside my posting has shifted a bit.  I’m outside playing with my two boys a lot!  But I’m reading the same amount, so the books are piling up waiting to be reviewed.  In this vlog, I share [...]

Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Angela’s Ashes, Dies at Age 78

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Frank McCourt has passed away at the age of 78 after recently falling ill.  Angela’s Ashes was one of the very fist memoirs that I ever read (in fact, I’ve given it away more than once here on my blog), and it was because of it that I now count memoirs among [...]