Indulging again

You’d have thought … that after the last online shopping binge, I would be sated.  But no, I went to pick up my Borders Preferred Card today at lunch time, and ended up with yet another load of books.

Sinner by Sara Douglass
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Lord of the Fading Lands by C. L. Wilson
Lady of Light […]

On the way

Well, I should have known that as soon as Kristie makes a strong recommendation, the curious cat in me will follow the trail and find all ways and means to read/ watch what she’s recommending.
So it should come as no surprise that when I couldn’t find the BBC series, North & South, that she’s been singing […]

The Boleyn novels

Reading these two historical fiction works is like witnessing the scandalous affairs of King Henry VIII unfolding before my very eyes!
Philippa Gregory’s attention to the minutiae of Tudor court life and her lively retelling of the circumstances which drove the Boleyn sisters to rival each other for the King’s favour in The Other Boleyn Girl […]

Lend Bookwish.org a helping hand

Inspired by a Washington Post article describing a Darfur refugee’s longing for books, Lorraine and Logan Kleinwaks started a nonprofit, Book Wish Foundation, to provide reading relief for people in crisis. “Reading relief,” to this group of volunteers, goes beyond providing books. It encompasses all of the aid that makes reading possible.

This non-profit organisation’s first […]

Holding Exhaustion at bay

The year has barely started and I’m already drowning in deadlines, not to mention backlogs of review posts. Even though the new year brought some good news … of a promotion, there were also some not-so-great ones … of colleagues leaving for greener pastures and relocating.
It also seems the hectic travelling is going to begin […]