This is my second post in my exultation of Garth Nix as an author and his novels that I have enjoyed. I have thoroughly enjoyed The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. As a fan of previously published Garth Nix novels,…
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Yearly Archives: 2012
What’s on my bookshelf? 8-8-12
Tagged with: books, Garth, Garth Nix, Grim Tuesday, Keys to the Kingdom, Lord Sunday, Mister Monday, Nix, young adult novel, young adult series
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Review: A Perfect Husband by Douglas Wickard
It took me about a week to read A Perfect Husband by Douglas Wickard. I was sent the novel by the author to review, and I want to thank him for allowing me to read this book and review it. I…
What’s on my bookshelf? 8-3-12
This will be the first of a couple of posts about the books by Garth Nix that are on my bookshelf. I have several of his books, but they are such different series that I feel each series deserves a…
Review: Gone to Green by Judy Christie
I became interested in reading Gone to Green after reading the book’s description: Lois goes from being a corporate journalist at a large paper in the Midwest to the owner of The Green News-Item, a small twice-weekly newspaper in rural North…
Tagged with: book review, Christian, Newspaper, North Louisiana, Small Town
Posted in Book review, Good
Posted in Book review, Good
A conversation about kids
Last night I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone. She had just finished putting her two girls to bed (5 and 3 years old) and was annoyed at her youngest. “I didn’t realize how spoiled she…
Review of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
I’ve been toying with the idea of reading the book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter since I first heard of the movie earlier this year. Unlike my coworker, who thought that it was horrible and disrespectful, I thought it sounded like an…
Tagged with: abraham lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, books, grahame smith, Jane Austen, Lincoln, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith, Twilight, Vampire
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Posted in Book review, Excellent
What’s on my bookshelf? 7-10-12
Unfortunately, posting hasn’t been a priority for about a month now. I decided to start the second half of the year of my posts with a fun bookshelf post about my enjoyment of Jasper Fforde. I love what’s known as British…
Tagged with: Big Over Easy, books, british humor, dry wit, Eyre Affair, Fforde, First Among Sequels, Goodreads, Jasper Fforde, Piers Anthony, Something Rotten, Thursday Next, Well of Lost Plots, xanth novels
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