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Book Review: Bloodmoney by David Ignatius

November 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books, Review

Last year I read the Girl With a Dragon Tattoo series, as I did not want to miss out on the action of female heroine really kicking some ass. When I was finished, I picked up dissimilar books, reasoning that I needed a break from the violence and intrigue. I didn’t finish even one of [...]

Book Review: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Books, Review

Reading fiction, for me, is an investment that should yield a high return. When I am faced with a choice in novels, I tend to pick ones that involve family relationships, an immediately likeable narrator and nothing to do with time travel. When I chose The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, I skeptically read the [...]

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Book Recommendation: An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

January 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books, Review

Aaahhh, I’m in love, love, love. There are few books that I fall for (odd, since I work at a library), but this book I held onto, looked at with arms outstretched and then clasped back dramatically to my chest. Ok, I didn’t really enact my love for this book, but I really couldn’t put [...]

Book Disgust-ion

November 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Books, Review

The character description begins, the scene pans out and already I want to shut the book covers and call it quits. I can’t even tell you how many books I’ve quit. Working at a library, I have entirely too many options to just settle. Nowadays, I will give a book 3 pages to decide whether [...]

Collective elephant memory

April 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, Family, Personal Story, Review, Ruminations

Old souls have recently come up in conversation. Like, what constitutes an old soul? Wisdom? Cantankerous-ness? Is it something one is born with? I’m not sure. I do notice an of-this-world-but-just-temporarily attitude that delineates old souls from the regular ones. My great aunt Mitt is 104! To me, she does not have an old soul. [...]