In honor of my week celebrating Pride and Prejudice, I think you should know exactly how much I love this book. So, I'm now confessing to the fact that I actually collect copies of Pride and Prejudice. From places I've visited, stores I've wandered...
Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen's Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton Release Date: January 2013 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pages: 240 pages Source & Format: Bought; Hardcover Amazon | Goodreads Summary (from...
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week they post a new topic/Top Ten list and invite everyone to share their own answers. I'm so obsessed with lists! As you know if you read my post yesterday, I'm spending...
Source Happy 200th Birthday, Pride and Prejudice! On this day in 1813, Jane Austen's "light, and bright, and sparkling" second novel was published. I'm sure she had no idea that it would become one of the most popular and best loved books in English...
Source "I spent my life between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Release Date: February 2012 Publisher: Random House | Crown Pages: 370 pages Source & Format: Library; Paperback Amazon | Goodreads Summary (from Amazon) Her name...
There is a part of me that's absolutely convinced that part of my mission in life is to make people love books. It's something that really rears its head someone says they don't like to read. Instantly, I have this strong desire to be the person who...
The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry Release Date: August 2012 Publisher: Penguin Pages: 320 pages Source & Format: Library; Hardcover Amazon | Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads) Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men...
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Every week they post a new topic/Top Ten list and invite everyone to share their own answers. I'm so obsessed with lists! I had so much fun trying to think of what settings...
The Background I've been so obsessed with Melina Marchetta ever since I read Jellicoe Road last summer. I spent the first 80 or so pages really confused, but I ended up falling in love with the story, the characters and Melina's writing....
I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Event - the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't by Jennifer Gilbert Release Date: May 2012 Publisher: HarperCollins | Harper Pages: 224 pages Source & Format: Library;...
STACKING THE SHELVES Be sure to check what everyone else has added to their shelves over at Tynga's Reviews! Bought for Kindle - Free: Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster - after reading this review on Forever Young Adult Angelfall by...
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Release Date: 1948 Pages: 343 pages Source & Format: Bought; Paperback Amazon | Goodreads Summary (from Amazon) I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family,...