I’ve had a very fun week of reading this week; all four books had good humor and great stories. Which makes me worried; am I getting better at finding books that suit me, or am I just due for a batch of really atrocious reading? What do you think: does one become better at finding great reading? But let’s get to the essential : the books! Books I read this week : Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler How...

I would love to have a new bookcase for our living room, since the one we have there is old and fits nothing of our furniture. Since we all know that the Internet is the Source of All Knowledge (ahem!), I decided to look around for new shelves. I found some really interesting stuff – stuff that I couldn’t buy, of course, so let’s all dream together! For the American patriotic reader, this bookshelf by Ron Arad is a must; For...

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro Pages : 263 Genre : Science fiction My Rating :  All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. It’s a really hard book to summarize without giving away the...

Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler Pages : 289 Genre : Austen Fiction, Chick Lit My Rating :  While Confessions took twenty-first-century free spirit Courtney Stone into the social confines of Jane Austen’s era, Rude Awakenings tells the parallel story of Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s daughter from Regency England who inexplicably awakens in Courtney’s overly wired and morally confused L.A. life. For Jane, the...

Remember, dear book blogger, that there is always a solution. Procrastination : always there when you need it the...

Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt Pages : 288 Genre : Young Adult, Fiction My Rating :  There are two sides to every breakup. This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They’re even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation. Then Jordan dumps Courtney — for a girl he met on the Internet. It’s too late to change...

In the spirit of In my Mailbox, here comes Filling the shelf. It’s the same thing, really, just with a name that suits my blog. Here are the books that entered my home in the last 3 weeks (not counting borrowed books) : Mostly speculative and historical fiction. I won Mistress of the Sun and I’m so glad I did! How I live now wasn’t something I was planning on buying on the day I bought it, but it was on sale and, mostly I love...

This week, I did something I hadn’t done in a long time : I gave up on a book I really, really wanted to read. Madapple has been on my TBR list since before I started blogging. The story seemed intriguing and the cover had caught my eye; and yet, I just couldn’t get into it. I tried, tried, and tried again, but I couldn’t get pass the first pages. I read and 10 minutes later, I’m barely a few lines farther in, and my mind...