Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
This book. It is… a book. It is a long book, but not long like Ken Follett‘s books are long, in the thousand-page sense — long like I thought it was going to take me ten or so hours to read and it took...
View ArticleDoctor Who: The Forgotten, by Tony Lee
So I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here before (oh, right, briefly), but I like me some Doctor Who. I’m not as obsessive about it as some I know, but I’m always game to watch the new episodes or some...
View ArticleStolen Bases, by Jennifer Ring
I often say that being in a book club is great for reading books you would otherwise not have picked up or even heard of at all. But sometimes, and this is one of those times, I must also say that...
View ArticleOrange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
This was my first pick of the year for my in-person book club, although technically someone else picked it and then I stole it because I didn’t have any better ideas. You know. I had heard about the...
View ArticleThe Last Child, by John Hart
One of the best things about being in a book club, even with the same members coming every month, is that you can never guess how everyone is going to react to a book, even yourself. One of the...
View ArticleThe Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
Another road trip, another Margaret Atwood plague-apocalypse book. So it is written. But it’s probably a good thing we were listening to this on a road trip with few other listening options, because...
View ArticleWeekend Shorts: Audiobook Edition
After going through a heavy podcast phase, I did some culling of my playlist and realized that I could probably squeeze in an audiobook in the dead times between my remaining podcasts. Huzzah, more...
View ArticlePride and Prejudice, adapted by Nancy Butler
You may remember that I finally read Pride and Prejudice last year, after many failed attempts, and I thought it was pretty okay. But this year I’ve fallen in love with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which...
View ArticleWeekend Shorts: More Volume Ones
I feel like I read a LOT of Volume Ones these days, and then I just, like, forget to read the rest of the series. And it’s not like I’m reading a lot of terrible series; it’s just that there are so...
View ArticleWeekend Shorts: Wayback Machine Edition
So, this summer went kind of insane on me, and I ended up reading a bunch of comics and then not blogging about them. So this post is about things I read, uh, two or more months ago and am just now...
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