Book Reviews and a Little More…
My first giveaway! I received my ARC of A Paragon of Virtue by Christian von Ditfurth from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Group, and now I’d like to pass it on to you! The back of the book reads: One by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a prominent Hamburg citizen are being slain. Von Ditfurth has crafted a breathtaking
Read moreThis week’s topic: If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) No … it’s because you want to know what happens next?
Read moreHang on, this is going to be a long one! Not only did I miss last week’s Salon, but I have some housekeeping matters to take care of. Since the last Salon, I’ve only finished 3 books, and two of them were on audio. This is my busiest time of year, and between missing my reading time during my lunch hour and watching the Olympics
Read more(Yes, I realize it’s Sunday. Busy week.) This week’s topic is: Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library?
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