Favorite Books of 2021
byHello! I honestly cannot believe we are nearly at the end of the year. Where did it all go? A year spent still under…
Dennis Lehane
Mystic River
byThis year, I have deliberately chosen to keep my reading light – in the sense that I want to read books that don’t pull…
Top Ten Tuesday: From Page to Screen
byTop Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It…
7.5 Breaking Down the Plot of Moonlight Mile
byI loved Gone Baby Gone so much (both the book and movie), that I had to get to the rest of the books in…
My Favorite Books of 2017
byLooking back at 2017, it wasn’t a good reading year. After a disappointing run with books accepted for review, I decided to stick to…
Gone Baby Gone – Book vs Movie
byWhen I see a movie I really like, and then learn that it is based on a book, well, then I have to immediately…
Weekly Life Updates
byOMG. I don’t know what to say about this week. All last weekend it poured heavily, there was no internet, no TV, no electricity,…
Weekly diaries
bySo, I’m back with another diary-style post. This week has been a bit quiet – mostly busy with work, but I still think I…
Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Unique Books
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the ten most unusual books I’ve ever read. This was…
Anyone Looking Forward to Seeing Shutter Island?
byShutter Island was the first Dennis Lehane novel I read (in 2004, I think), and I was completely blown away by the book. It…