June.2016 TBR

I cannot believe we are in June – the half way point in the year.  I really have no idea where May went.  It worries me a bit when summer comes and the month goes by so quickly that I feel like I have not taken advantage of it.  April and May is a very...

May.2016 Reads

The following are the books I completed in the month of May.2016 along with my rating on Goodreads: The Nest by Cynthia D'Apix Sweeney - 4 stars - I have a full review on my youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MIomVLwtQ I Think I am Outta Here by Carroll O'Connor - 3 stars - I have a full...

Book Haul

So these are the books that I accumulated in the month of May.2016.  Please excuse the wonky picture with my eyes closed, however, I didn't look at the picture right after I took it and went ahead and put the books away and I couldn't be arsed to take a new picture! Rare Objects by...

Weekend Reads

This is a long weekend in Canada with Monday being Victoria Day so I get another day for reading!! Yea!!!!!! I am currently reading The Bookseller by Mark Pryor.  This is the first book in the Hugo Marston series.  Hugo is the head of security at the US embassy in Paris.  He occasionally purchases books...

Book Review – I Think I’m Outta Here

I listened to this book on audio which was read by the author.  I had been expecting to hear Archie Bunker’s voice flow through my ear pods but what I heard was the Broadway cultured voice of Carroll O’Connor.  I didn’t realize that his voice changed as much as it did when he played Archie....

Book Review – My Name is Lucy Barton

I received this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Lucy Barton had an unhappy childhood full of poverty and abuse and was the daughter of dysfunctional parents.  As an adult, she has married and is a mother herself when she ends up in the hospital for a period of eight or nine...

Book Review – Making It Up As I Go Along

  Making It Up As I Go Along is a bind-up of a series of Marian’s observations that have mostly been published previously in UK and Ireland papers and in various magazines.  Most of them are short and humorous and are good for picking up when you are only planning on reading a few minutes...