The Secret Life of Bees: Conflicted

Shop Indie Bookstores The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (January 28, 2003) ISBN-10: 0142001740 This is the second time I’ve read this book. The first time was about four years ago, and what a difference four years and some personal growth makes. The Secret Life of [...]

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Critical Reading

As an (aspiring) book reviewer, I’m trying to teach myself how to read critically, not just for enjoyment. This is at times fun, and other times distracting. It can be difficult to concentrate on the story, when I’m thinking about how I’ll write a review for it. I have begun to develop a strategy, though. [...]

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Bee Season: Spell Communication

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Another selection that I read for a bookclub held yesterday, Bee Season was definitely an interesting book for me. We first meet Eliza Naumman, a young Jewish girl adrift in a sea of mediocrity, her teachers and family having written her off years before for failing to get into her [...]

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Woot! I Got A Package!

I received my first Paper Back Swap book today! It’s Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth, which I’m supposed to read for one of my book clubs. I originally borrowed it from the library, but when I realized how god-awful long the thing was, I decided I needed to go ahead and buy it. But [...]

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A New Book Adventure

I discovered a new love tonight. I’ve known about it for quite a while, but have always kind of poo-poo’d it, thinking, why, that’s what libraries are for! I’m talking, of course, about Paper Back Swap. Being the tremendous book lover I am, (for those who haven’t noticed), I’m always looking for ways to get [...]

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