Alyce at At Home With Books is running a great giveway right now for two copies of this book that is already on my TBR stack. Publisher’s Weekly says “this clear and smoothly written look at the mind-boggling history of everything is both informative and provocative.You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher PotterPublisher: […]
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The Short Story Reading Challenge is hosted by Kate and has different options for readers on varying levels. This is a genre that more people should try, in my opinion, and one in which you can find as much variety as novels. I have to admit that I’m a sucker for a good short story.
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“Before he could react, there was a movement behind him and a stunning blow at the base of his skull.” (p17) “Boy, as far as I can see, you picked the only genuinely ugly building in Heidelberg.” (p31) Fellowship of Fear by Aaron Elkins © Jan McClintock of We Need More Shelves
I’ve used many everyday items as bookmarks over the years as well as special bookmarks given as gifts or made by hand. Here I’m going to document the many types of bookmarks I use and will link to fun sites online about bookmarks. A great idea: combine the jacket with a bookmark! Jacket + Bookmark
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“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.” First line of Joseph
This is “Old Willie – the village worthy” by James Guthrie, a painting in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. This incredible painting has an eerie effect when one views it in person. Willie seems to be actually sitting in the frame, waiting to speak his mind. It is so lifelike that you
A Full Dark House: A Bryant & May Mystery and Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Bryant & May Mystery, both by Christopher Fowler – the first and second in the series about London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. The author uses an ingenious method of flashbacks and contemporary narrative in the first book to relate the unit’s first case
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Whilst Reading: A Portrait of Sofia Kramskoya, the Painter’s Wife (Ivan Kramskoi, 1866) “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” — Oscar Wilde © Jan McClintock of We Need More Shelves
