The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme! This week’s theme: “Is […]
It that time again, time for my Book Review Giveaway! In case you’re unfamiliar with it, every month I offer one international winner the chance to choose one of the books I reviewed the previous month. Provided The Book Depository ships to your country, you can enter! Please help me congratulate last month’s winner: Ellen […]
The nitty-gritty: An Alice in Wonderland re-telling that didn’t quite hit the mark, but a wonderful look at the effect of Victorian society on a handful of memorable characters. So Mama waggled her fingers in the air, Go, go, and settled her crown of hair, the color of browning roses, upon the bolster of the […]
Happy Fall, everyone! Unfortunately for those of us in California (and no doubt other western states), Fall has yet to make an appearance. A quick check of the temps this week shows highs in the 90s! All I want is to be able to wear jeans and a hoodie, I mean really, is that too […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, where they have a new top ten theme each week. Head on over and join in yourself, it’s fun! This week we’re taking a look at our Top Ten Fall 2015 books, and the way I interpret this is to list the books coming […]
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Welcome to Over-Booked, my bi-weekly post where I share my latest book acquisitions. I’m linking up with Stacking the Shelves over at Tynga’s Reviews and The Sunday Post at the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This week marked the arrival of a book I’ve been waiting YEARS (?) to read, and an ARC that I’ve put my […]
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Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine, and is a fun way to share upcoming books that you’re excited about with other bloggers and readers. Gregory Maguire did awesome things with The Wizard of Oz tale, and now it looks like he’s going to tackle Alice in Wonderland: After Alice by Gregory Maguire. […]
Although my interest in Gregory Maguire’s OZ series has waned since I (tried to) read Book #3, A Lion Among Men, I am still going to recommend the final book in the series, Out of Oz, out this week. The story that started out sixteen years ago in Wicked: The Life and Times of the […]