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The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Christmas is no ordinary toy. –GoodReads My Review I am admittedly a Dumas slut so I may be a smidgen bias in my four cup rating but hear me out! I’m also a huge fan of classic novels across a crap ton of […]
What are days even anymore? Let’s do this I suppose. TOTAL COUNT: 24, 1 Not Shown [Ready one to the spawn this month, Glory of Unicorns] BLM Posts from Book Bloggers [These are only […]
GoodReads: First English translation of the celebrated Golden Age Science Fiction Classic. “This stunning classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein. No devotee of great sf should miss The City of the Stars.” – New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear Tankar […]
GoodReads: When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert’s directionless crisis there […]
GoodReads: Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father’s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their […]
Guess what January 3rd was? My Blogiversary Guess who had no clue until I looked it up on January 3rd? This girl. So, I did a Twitter poll, and a few people did it, so it’s been decided that today I’ll do my blogiversary post and celebrate by… Giving you all a tour of […]
So these are books I read, in general, this year, they may have come out this year, they may have come out before, but, I wanted to just give you all a bit of a highlights reel of books I didn’t get to include on the other lists whether because they didn’t fit the […]
GoodReads: Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty […]
Synopsis: The second book in a series where your favorite literary characters come to life, inspired by the timeless classic, Little Women! There’s no one better than the boy next door. At least not according to Aurora Campbell, fourteen, who has been in love with Tobias May since their very firstsandbox kiss. The problem […]
Hey all It’s Sunday, I’m picking my daughter up from her Brownies trip and yesterday we had an unexpected charity shop spree. We went to one but it was just choc-full of amazing books. So. We did it. That was our adventurous thing to do while the daughter is away, buy books. Also, I forgot […]
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