Welcome to Mass Market Monday, a weekly meme where people share what mass market titles they've read in the previous week.To participate:1. Enter your blog into the list below with the main type of books you review.Example: Blog Name (main type of books you review or "eclectic")Wildly Read (eclectic children's & adult) 2. Post about this … Continue reading Mass Market Monday: Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks
Author: WildlyLived
I’d Like to Thank the Academy…
Actually, I'd like to thank Ms. Emily Crowe of As the Crowe Flies (and Reads!) for passing on the Versatile Blogger Award! This is my first award on my new blog, and I'm thrilled to receive it from a friend, fellow blogger, and person whose opinion I trust. And now, to pay it forward...The rules … Continue reading I’d Like to Thank the Academy…
Happy Thanksgiving!
I struggle with this holiday, like I struggle with most American-history holidays, because we celebrants tend to remember only one side of the holiday story - the White side, the colonizer side, the winning side. Though my people (only 2nd generation here) came over after most of the overt colonizing had taken place, I struggle … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!
Word of the Day: Lagniappe
I can't wait to receive my lagniappe, coming in the mail, and from a Southern-speaking friend at that!
This hurts my eyes.Thanks to Mattie for this via The Daily What.
Mass Market Monday:
Welcome to Mass Market Monday, a weekly meme where people share what mass market titles they've read in the previous week.To participate:1. Enter your blog into the list below with the main type of books you review.Example: Blog Name (main type of books you review or "eclectic")Wildly Read (eclectic children's & adult) 2. Post about this … Continue reading Mass Market Monday:
Celebrate the Haul-idays with Chronicle Books
Attention Book Bloggers and those who just love books:Chronicle Books, publisher extraordinaire based in San Francisco, is helping us celebrate the holidays with a chance to win$500 worth of Chronicle titles!Introducing Celebrate the Haul-idays with Chronicle Books If you're a blogger, create your own list and add your own blog.If you're not a blogger, comment in … Continue reading Celebrate the Haul-idays with Chronicle Books
Young People’s Literature National Book Award: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Congratulations to National Book Award winner for Young People's Literature: Kathryn Erskine, author of Mockingbird!Description:In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to … Continue reading Young People’s Literature National Book Award: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Book Blogger Hop & Follow Friday
It's that time again: Follow the yellow brick road, follow your dreams, and follow mebecause it's Book Blogger Hop and Follow Friday!This week's Book Blogger Hop question: "Since Thanksgiving is coming up next week, let's use this week's Hop to share what we are most thankful for and what our holiday traditions are!"Most thankful for - how … Continue reading Book Blogger Hop & Follow Friday
Waiting on Wednesday: More Guilty Pleasures
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. My first WoW post was about my guilty pleasure reading - basically those mass market paperbacks I write about on Mondays - and this one is going to continue that tradition.Tempest's Legacy by Nicole Peeler9780316056601, $7.99, Orbit (Hachette)Pub. Date: January 2011Description from the author's … Continue reading Waiting on Wednesday: More Guilty Pleasures