Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme by That Artsy Reader Girl and was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is: The First 10 Books I Reviewed. Each of these reviews were posted here on my site the year I created my blog... Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist." And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts his life’s journey in Richard Morais’s charming novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey. Lively... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme from That Artsy Reader Girl and was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Rainy Day Reads. There are generally two types of books I like to read when I know I'm going to have the entire day to read: Mysteries/Thrillers, and YA... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex—must set aside mistrust and old resentments . . . but can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme from That Artsy Reader Girl and was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Outrageous Things I've Done for the Love of Books. Here are mine: Taken a library book on vacation. I used to cart them along on the plane, in rental... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she's in middle school, everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the "cool" girls in the class, and even talking about changing her name to something more... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "Martin is an American teen on the autism spectrum living in France with his mom and sister for the summer. He falls for a French girl who he thinks is a real-life incarnation of a character in his favorite book. Over time Martin comes to realize she is a real person and not a... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme from That Artsy Reader Girl, and was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish. I have been dying to participate in one of these weekly memes for so long now and figured the beginning of a new month was as good a time as any to jump... Continue Reading →
