Posts under ‘Books’

This is not the post I started to write yesterday about my morning run.  THAT one is about half-way done, but I’m scrapping it in favor of writing about what I did AFTER the run.  I want to write this because I want a record what I did on March 6, 2010, long after this exact date [...]

The Hunger Games is set in futuristic North America in a country called Panem.  Life in North America is over as we know it.  Panem has a center of operations called The Capitol and twelve outlying districts that are titled merely by number.  Each year the Capitol requires two tributes, or sacrifices, from each district [...]

 
This lovely book just came out in paperback, which means that the general public will start reading this in droves.  Or, you can do what I did and borrow it from the library.  Now that I’ve read it, I would absolutely consider buying it because it’s going to be one of those books that I [...]

It’s been an up-and-down week.  On Monday I posted about my funk.  And boy, was it a funk.  I walked outside for an hour and a half with Kirby before going to pick up the kids, just because I couldn’t stand to be inside and still.
Monday night I went to Book Club and mentioned a book [...]

I blogged about the books sitting on my shelf recently.  This is the first book I’ve finished and reviewed.
Between Me and the River, by Carrie Host
This amazing memoir is one of the first non-fiction books published by Harlequin, the publisher that is well-known for churning out steamy romance novels.  I applaud the publisher for recognizing the [...]