Books Read Ivy and Intrigue by Lauren Willig The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards Tsotsi by Athol Fugard Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Books Acquired none (I did finish a book of my own collection, so I am allowed to buy a book, but I’m waiting until a book I’m eagerly awaiting is released in February) Books [...]
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January 2012 {monthly summary}
Posted by Kristie on January 31, 2012
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/january-2012-monthly-summary/
more Pink Carnation cover art :o/
This is the cover of Lauren Willig’s next installment of the Pink Carnation series, The Garden Intrigue, due out in February. The past installment had a cover similar to this one, which was a great leap from the first seven books. I have to say that I’m pleased with the new cover, as much as [...]
Posted by Kristie on July 8, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/more-pink-carnation-cover-art-o/
My Books are Talking to Me…
Yesterday, both the books I’m reading referenced the same book. I’m reading Edenborn by Nick Sagan, a futuristic sci-fi and slightly dystopic novel I’m listening to on audiobook, and Bliss by OZ Livaneli, about a teenage girl in Turkey who is raped by her uncle and must suffer the consequences. Both of these books referenced [...]
Posted by Kristie on June 14, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/my-books-are-talking-to-me/
reading update
I started reading Push by Sapphire (aka Precious) today. Well, actually I’m listening to it on audiobook. And I’m very glad I’m reading it this way. Bahni Turpin is the narrator, and I think it is the way she reads that makes the story so interesting. I’m assuming the book is written in dialect. And, sure I [...]
Posted by Kristie on May 9, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/reading-update/
December 2010 in my reading world
Books Read in December 2010 Miss Julie by August Strindberg Jar of Fools by Eric A Kimmel When Mindy Saved Christmas by Eric A Kimmel K is for Kwanzaa by Juwanda G Ford The Gifts of Kwanzaa by Synthia Saint James Santa’s Kwanzaa by Garen Eileen Thomas How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky [...]
Posted by Kristie on December 31, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/december-2010-in-my-reading-world/
November 2010 in Books
Books Read in November (not very many grown up books ) The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto Seven Spools of Thread by Angela Shelf Medearis Festival of Lights by Maida Silverman [...]
Posted by Kristie on December 1, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/november-2010-in-books/
October 2010 in Books
Books Read in October The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Books Acquired in October The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Tess of d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Books Added to TBR [...]
Posted by Kristie on November 2, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/october-2010-in-books/
September 2010 Wrap-Up
Books Read in September The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Soulless by Gail Carriger Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Changeless by Gail Carriger Blameless by Gail Carriger Books Acquired in September Balzac and the [...]
Posted by Kristie on October 1, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/september-2010-wrap-up/
library booksale = very happy Kristie
Every so often–about twice a year, actually–my old library (the one I used to work at) has a book sale. It’s not exactly the library, but an organization from the library called Friends of the Library, that sets up and runs the book sale. But the books are from the library Anyways, I had major [...]
Posted by Kristie on September 10, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/library-booksale-very-happy-kristie/
August 2010 in books
Books Read in August 2010 | Book-ish Things Acquired in August 2010 four different sets of book plates! (bought with a B&N giftcard I got for by birthday ) Soulless by Gail Carriger Changeless by Gail Carriger | Books Added to TBR List in August 2010 Auf Wiedersehen by Christa Holder Ocker (Book Journey’s Review) [...]
Posted by Kristie on September 1, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/august-2010-in-books/
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Where I’ve Been in 2012
