Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

Hi! *waves enthusiastically* it's been nearly a month since I've posted.  It's been a weird month of stress and anxiety.  So, basically this is a big list of what I've been reading and listening too recently. I got back into audiobooks! I missed them but podcasts seemed to take over my car trips, but now I get more time to listen at other times so audibooks are back in my car!! Currently Reading: Title : The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Author : Anne Bronte Date Started : April 24 Currently Listening To: Title : Furiously Happy Author : Jenny Lawson Date Started : April 20 Finished Reading: Title : The Liar Author : Nora Roberts Date Finished : April 3 Comments : This was a reread, I needed a comfort read and Nora Roberts is my go to comfort author. Title :   The Dry Author : Jane Harper Date Finished : April 4 Stars : 4 Comments : This was for my book club. Not my normal pick of genre, but I enjoyed the book and it says it's book #1 so I...

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 : The Liar Author : Nora Roberts Date Started : 4/2/2017 Note : This is a reread, I had a stressful week and needed a comfort read. Nora Roberts is like my comfort read author of choice. Title : The Dry Author : Jane Harper Date Started : 4/2/2017 Note : This is a book club selection. Finished Reading : Title : Evenings at Five Author : Gail Godwin Date Finished : March 31, 2017 Stars : 3 Title : If Not for You Author : Debbie Macomber Date Finished : April 1, 2017 Stars : 4 Comments : Mom and I both finished this book over the weekend and had a wonderful conversation.

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  Where Are Here: Feminism for the Real World  edited by Kelly Jensen  caught my eye. It Begins:   Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World  is a guid...

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 At Home Book: Title: If Not for You (New Beginnings #3) Author: Debbie Macomber Date Started: March 26 Currently At Lunch Break Book: Title:  Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Author: Michael Eric Dyson Date Started: March 6 Finished Reading: Title: NextWave, Agents of H.A.T.E. Author: Warren Ellis Date Finished: March 17 Stars: 3 Stars Note: I read the 12 individual issues of the full run. I don't like tracking those as individual reads so I'm tracking them as 1 book.

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 At Home Book: Title: NextWave (issues 1-12) Author: Warren Ellis Date Started: March 17 Currently At Work Book: Title: Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Author: Michael Eric Dyson Date Started: March 6 Finished Reading: Title: Built (Saints of Denver #1) Author: Jay Crownover Date Finished: March 7 Stars: 3 Stars Title: The Tale of the Unknown Island Author: Jose Saramago Date Finished: March 9 Stars: 4 Stars Title: Jane Austen Author: Carol Shields Date Finished: March 18 Stars: 4 Stars Title: Eat This Poem Author: Nicole Gulotta Date Finished: March 19 Stars: 4 Stars Comments: ARC received from NetGalley - Review

Title:  Eat This Poem Author:  Nicole Gulotta Publication Date:  March 21, 2017 Rating:  4 Stars Synopsis:  A literary cookbook celebrating food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients. In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twenty-five inspiring poems in this book from such poets as Marge Piercy, Louise Gluck, Mark Strand, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield are accompanied by seventy-five recipes that bring the richness of words to life in our kitchen, on our plate, and through our palate. Eat This Poem opens us up to fresh ways of accessing poetry and lends new meaning to the foods we cook.  Review:  I love cookbooks and have a bad habit of collecting some of the interesting ones I come across. This one will be added to my collection (got a digital copy to review). ...

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 about ignoring them, other wise 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 is  Irish Gold  by Andrew M. Greeley  : . It Begins:   "The Irish," I insisted to the black-haired young woman whose face might have belonged to a pre-Chr...