For a long time my husband has called me “Book Girl” as a term of endearment. and BookGirlJenel is my new Instagram handle. This week I got a copy of a book called Book Girl from the library, and just started reading it tonight. I already have my favorite quote for the week: “To be…
Fireworks! Hot Dogs! Books? Okay, well not a traditional way to celebrate – but I thought I’d make a list of five of my favorite U.S. historical fiction books in honor of Independence Day! Happy Fourth everyone! Photo Credit: Paul_Stachowiak via Pixabay book-reviewBooksIndependence DayReading
When I tell people that one of my yearly goals is to read 200 books a year, I tend to get a lot of astonished reactions. Granted, reading is my #1 hobby, part of my day job, and I’m blessed to be a very fast reader, but I also think that there’s a number of…
The proof copy of my paperback arrived today. The entire process may have been worth it just to see it in lovely book form. I don’t know what it is about ink on paper, but I do think it has its own magic. BooksReadingSelf PublishingWriting
I am currently reading (well, listening to) Claudia Gray’s The Murder of Mr. Wickham. I’ve read lots of Austen inspired stuff, but this book does something that I’ve never seen before – she comes up with a convincing way to put characters from all (or almost all, I’m admittedly not a Jane Austen expert) of…
A couple of weeks ago when I was on vacation I read Katherine Center’s book The Bodyguard. I enjoy all of Center’s books, but her novel How to Walk Away is especially powerful, and definitely a more serious work than The Bodyguard. That being said I loved every minute of reading The Bodyguard – it…
Okay so here’s the hard truth up front – there are some things about the book Possession by A. S. Byatt that I don’t like. I have a genuine animosity toward books that romanticize affairs, and the character of Maud Bailey I find irritating, and not in a good way, about 90 percent of the…
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