It Starts with You!: Every Woman’s Guide to personal growth and a successful Love Relationship is another one of those books I wanted to be so much better than it was. The premise is pretty simple, really — this books answers the unasked question, “Have you ever noticed that the common denominator in all of [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Challenge Update: Canadian Books, Eh?
The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge is well underway, and I am progressing well toward my goal — well, sort of. I’m doing well with the reading of books. I’m not doing so well with the reviewing, or with reading the books I originally set out to do. But, I am sure that John Mutford will [...]
Review and Interview: Yellowknife, by Steve Zipp
I literally have nothing bad to say about Steve Zipp’s Yellowknife. It’s gorgeous. The binding is beautiful. The writing glimmers. The plot is perfect. And you guys know that I don’t use those sorts of adjectives when I write reviews. I usually deal with “pretty good” and “moderately interesting” and “fairly well-paced.” But Yellowknife is [...]
Welcome!
Hot dang, I’ve got me a new website. If you’re coming from shereadsbooks.wordpress.com, you can easily click here to subscribe to shereadsbooks.org with an RSS reader, or click here to subscribe to shereadsbooks.org via email. Heck, you can do that even if you found me another way. I have some exciting things planned here for [...]
Interview: Mary Lewis, Publicist
I got to know Mary Lewis a little bit a few months ago, when she contacted me to find out if I’d be interested in reviewing a few books that she was publicizing. She’s the lady behind Blog Stop Book Tours, for whom I read (and loved) Springtime on Mars. Mary has a brief bio [...]
July Books
Books! In July! I read ‘em! It was, in fact, a particularly excellent month in terms of my reading, especially as regards things I’d never read before (marked, as always, with an asterisk). Here are the goods: *V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore. My brothers had been bothering me to read this for a good [...]
On “Sequels”
A catalogue got sent to me this week by a purveyor of books, and having a few leisurely moments this morning, I flipped through it to see what I could see. Here is what I saw: no less than 15 Jane Austen “sequels” on offer. What on earth? Who is writing these things? Who is [...]