Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

When I was deciding to come back to the blog I was looking through all the blogging memes that the blogs I read follow. I had done Book Beginnings and The Friday 56 a handful of times, but over at  Mixed Book Bag , JC merged them together and I really like that idea.  So borrowing from her I'm going to start linking up to both Book Beginnings on Friday from  Rose City Reader  and The Friday 56 with  Freda's Voice . About a month ago I got into a Twitter discussion about The Godfather. We were discussing how great both the book and the movie were. This conversation revealed that one of the participants hadn't read the novel.  It has been a number of years since I read the novel and here I was saying how great it was. I wanted to reread it to make sure I had my suggestions right. This week the book  The Godfather  by Mario Puzo  caught my eye. It Begins:   Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and w...

So my plan is, each Monday to update anyone who reads this on what I'm currently reading and what I may have finished in the last week. Currently Reading: Title : Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity #1) Author : Nalini Singh Date Started : July 24 Title : The Godfather Author : Mario Puzo Date Started : July 24 Currently Listening : Title : Stories of Your Life and Others Author : Ted Chiang Date Started : July 18 Note : NYPL Summer Reading Challenge Finished Reading : Title : Rodeo Rancher (Rodeo, Montana #2) Author : Mary Sullivan Date Finished : July 23 Stars : 4 Comments : Really enjoyed this novel. Liked that they were older (mid 30-early 40s) with kids. Want to go back and read the first book in the series. Title : The Rancher's Baby Proposal Author : Barbara White Daille Date   Finished : July 23 Stars : 3 Comments : Cute romance but so much seemed forced. Title : Love Me Again (Hope #7) Author : Jaci Burton Date   Finish...

So my plan is, each Monday to update anyone who reads this on what I'm currently reading and what I may have finished in the last week. Currently Reading: Title : Love Me Again (Hope #7) Author : Jaci Burton Date Started : July 16, 2017 Currently Listening: Title : Eats, Shoots & Leaves Author : Lynne Truss Date Started : July 12, 2017 Finished Reading: Title : One Summer: America, 1927 Author : Bill Bryson Date Finished : July 11 Stars : 4 Title : All He Needs Author : Shirley Hailstock Date Finished : July 11 Stars : 2 Title : What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (short story) Author : Lesley Nneka Arimah Date Finished : July 12 Stars : 4 Comments : Listened to the titled short story on LeVar Burton Reads. I have picked up the whole book and will be reading it to finish the full collection. Title : Princes at War : The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII Author : Deborah Cadbury Date Finished ...

When I was deciding to come back to the blog I was looking through all the blogging memes that the blogs I read follow. I had done Book Beginnings and The Friday 56 a handful of times, but over at  Mixed Book Bag , JC merged them together and I really like that idea.  So borrowing from her I'm going to start linking up to both Book Beginnings on Friday from  Rose City Reader  and The Friday 56 with  Freda's Voice . This week the book  Come Sundown  by Nora Roberts  is my current read. It Begins:   Prologue - Western Montana, 1991 - Alice Bodine relieved herself behind a thin screen of lodgepole pines.  On Page 56: He had the novices on a couple of reliable hacks - though the bay they called Biff could be as lazy as a teenage boy on a summer morning. He plodded along under the man while the nervous giggle rode the cooperative Maybelle. Verdict: This novel is broken down into four parts. I'm about ha...

This was a slow reading week. I'm plodding along with Princes at War  and hoping to finish it up soon. I had a week off from listening to One Summer  because my digital checkout through the library expired and I had to wait for another copy to become available so I could pick it back up. Currently Reading: Title : Princes at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal FAmily in the Darkest Days of WWII Author : Deborah Cadbury Date Started : June 22, 2017 Note : Reading this on my lunch breaks so it's slow going. Title : All He Needs Author : Shirley Hailstock Date Started : July 9, 2017 Currently Listening: Title : One Summer: America, 1927 Author : Bill Bryson Date Started : June 18, 2017 Finished Reading: Title :  Empty Places Author : Richard Parks Date Finished : July 5, 2017 Note:  LeVar Burton Reads Podcast. 2 parts Title : Audubon, On The Wings Of The World Author : Fabien Grolleau Date Finished : July 8, 2017 Note:  ...

When I was deciding to come back to the blog I was looking through all the blogging memes that the blogs I read follow. I had done Book Beginnings and The Friday 56 a handful of times, but over at  Mixed Book Bag , JC merged them together and I really like that idea.  So borrowing from her I'm going to start linking up to both Book Beginnings on Friday from  Rose City Reader  and The Friday 56 with  Freda's Voice . My little twist to this; I work in a library IT department. We have two offices separated by a section of the fiction stacks.  Books are always catching my eye and I've gotten pretty good at ignoring them, otherwise, my TBR list would be HUGE.  But these weekly memes give them the chance to see if the book would be worth checking out. This week the book beachcombers   by Nancy Thayer  caught my eye. It was on a display with a sign that was a picture of a beach with the world 'escape' on it. Nancy Thayer is like the queen o...

So my plan is, each Monday to update anyone who reads this on what I'm currently reading and what I may have finished in the last week. Currently Reading: Title :  Princes at War : The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII Author : Deborah Cadbury Date Started : June 22, 2017 Currently Listening : Title :  One Summer: America, 1927 Author : Bill Bryson Date Started : June 18, 2017 Title :  Empty Places Author : Richard Parks Date Started : June 27, 2017 Note: LeVar Burton Reads Podcast. Part 1 was released this past week and Part 2 will be released later this week. Finished Reading : Title :  The Best We Could Do Author : Thi Bui Date Finished : June 26, 2017 Stars : 5 Note : Book 1 for  #ReadersUnite: NYPL's Summer Reading Challenge For Adults Title : The Lighthouse Keeper Author : Daisy Johnson Date Finished : June 26, 2017 Stars : 4 Note : LeVar Burton Reads Podcast Title : When Dimple Met ...