Some of you may recall that I love Audrey Hepburn and consider her one of my role models. Well, on this day eighteen years ago she passed away. A few years ago I read a book called How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, which is essentially a collection of quotes from Audrey, [...]

Over on the sidebar of my blog, I have a couple of linked images to take you to Google Maps that show you WHERE I’ve been in the world, via the books I’ve read. But then I got to thinking… I love history and, therefore, historical fiction. While historical fiction isn’t the only genre I [...]

I try as much as possible to post only book-ish things on this blog. But I’m just so happy about this that I decided to let you all know: I got married this weekend! Nick and I have been together for 7.5 years, so this was a long time coming

Today is Roald Dahl Day!! (September 13th was his birthday) Roald Dahl has a special place in my heart. My 3rd grade teacher (yes, this is back in 1997), Mrs. Bernardo, used to read Roald Dahl to us quite often during our class reading time. She loved his books and I, personally, loved listening to [...]

August 17th (Tuesday) I order Soulless and Changeless by Gail Carriger via Amazon.com August 20th (Friday) USPS deliver my package around 11:30 am (I am not home) August 27th (Friday, today) I go to Post Office: “The tracking tells me this package was delivered and I never received it.” Postal Worker looks for it in [...]

There are certain authors that I tend to steer clear of. To name a few they are authors such as James Patterson and Nora Roberts (Janet Evanovich, Jude Devereaux, Sandra Brown, Nelson DeMille, and Alexander McCall Smith also get honorable mentions here). “Why do you stay away from authors like those?” you might wonder. Well, [...]

As I was looking around some blogs today, I came across a question of what makes some pages in some books unevenly cut in appearance. (It’s called deckle edge and is done for aesthetic and functional reasons, by the way.) This question reminded me of old books, in which the readers had to cut the [...]

As some of you RBC-ers might remember, there is a thread in the book forum called “Where Have You Been in Books?” (you might not recall, however,  that I began this thread ) On this thread, we discussed the locations of our various books; if nothing else, we just said where we currently were in [...]

As some of you might recall, I have mentioned a few times before that I cannot read in a car whilst it is moving. As a result, if I am a passenger, I am completely bored for the entire trip–especially if that trip is 6-7 hours, like my recent vacations. For one of my trips, [...]

Browsing my blogroll of bookish blogs, I stumbled upon an interesting post by Carmen at Art of Reading. There is this website, called I Write Like. You basically copy and paste some text that you have written and have the website analyze it. I copied and pasted my latest blog post (of substance; my list [...]