Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith My rating: 3 of 5 stars The ultimate biography on the Queen will probably not come until after her death. But if we combine the plethora of existing ones, a decent enough picture comes out of it. This biography adds to that… Continue reading Review: Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Category: The Library
Review: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide by Doug Mack My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a fun little read. How does the Europe on 5 dollars a day travel guide from way back translate to traveling in Europe today? Some of us (the author… Continue reading Review: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Babies tasting food items for the first time
Review: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just finished reading this book. I did not think I was going to like it, and I’ve had… Continue reading Review: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Important books in your life?
I was at a book talk tonight. The journalist who talked about “books that had been important in his life” was funny and made most of the books sound interesting. The problem was that I have read some of the books he talked about. And I did not like them at all. The first one… Continue reading Important books in your life?
Les Miserables – by one man
Books I read in January 2013
So, my illness in January also had the un-intended side effect of making me read more than usual… In addition to making it through 11 seasons of Frasier. I discovered one of those neverending Harlequin series, that, just when I thought it was over, they moved geographic location slightly, and the stories could start all… Continue reading Books I read in January 2013
Books I read in December
And so, another year is almost over. And this is the last book tally of 2012. I’ve registered some of the books I’ve read this month on Goodreads, but not all of them. I topped out at 502 books for the year, which is a decent enough number, I suppose. My reading goal for 2013… Continue reading Books I read in December
Books I read in November
Well, where have November gone? Looking at the amount of books I read, I have a certain idea of why it went by so quickly… I discovered some new authors through Goodreads – and proceeded to read everything in their series. I also did a bit of travel, which resulted in time to read books.