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December 11, 2013

HOW TO LEAD A LIFE OF CRIME by Kirsten Miller

December 11, 2013

It took me a few days to recover from this one. Don’t take it the wrong way. I have so much love for How to Lead a Life of Crime! I can’t think of a book I have read the past couple of years that can even remotely compare! Reading this book caused an internal…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: action, american authors, blackmail, brainwashing, death, domestic violence, drugs, family problems, mental health, morality, murder, psychology, rape, romance, suicide, thriller, violence

December 7, 2013

Confab: Reading, Reviewing & Languages

December 7, 2013

I predominantly read books in English, so reviewing them in English was kind of a given. That and the fact that I’ve been mostly educated in English and live in a vastly English-speaking country.

· Categories: Thoughts & Confab, Updates

December 4, 2013

ROOMIES by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando

December 4, 2013

Oh the liminality of the summer between high school and college! Sorry, I just had to use the term liminality outside of school. But it is an apt definition of where Elizabeth and Lauren are. A stage of in-between, of neither here nor there. It is also those in-between stages that tend to go unnoticed, so I…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: adultery, american authors, cheating, college, contemporary, dating, earc, emailing, epistolary, friendship, internet, multiple authors, multiple points of view, realistic fiction, siblinghood, single parenthood

December 1, 2013

DECKED WITH HOLLY by Marni Bates

December 1, 2013

Happy First Advent! What better way to get into the Christmas season than with holiday-day themed books? So I picked up Decked With Holly by Marni Bates to get into the mood. It was a little less Christmassy than I had expected because one of the main characters, Holly, is of Jewish descent, so Christmas wasn’t…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: christmas, cruises, dating, family problems, friendship, holidays, humour, light-hearted books, music bands, realistic fiction, vacation

November 28, 2013

Confab: Goodreads Shelving System

November 28, 2013

For me Goodreads is first a site to organize my reading life, then a social networking platform for readers. I’ve been on Goodreads for a number of years but when I first started out, I was very haphazard about it.

· Categories: Thoughts & Confab

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