Who is Too Fond of Books?

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Friday Finds: March 6, 2009

 

Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.  This is a round-up of the books that caught my eye and were added to my wish list over the past week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I added A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg after reading a review and recipe for [...]

Friday Finds: January 9, 2009

 

 

Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should be Reading. 

 

 

I’ve seen ads for the film The Reader based on the book of the same name by Bernhard Schlink; I thought, “I’ll have to read the book before I see the movie,” which generally means that I’ll end up renting the DVD months [...]

Friday Finds: January 2, 2009 (yes, 2009!)

 

Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should be Reading.  Click over there to read more about books that have tempted people this week.

 

I became interested in Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West by Anne Seagraves after I read this review at Kittling: Books.  The book was published in 1994, and [...]

Friday Finds

And now we come to the end of the week, where we gather up the book tips and hot finds and share them.  Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.   I have only one book to list this week; not that I haven’t read a number of great reviews [...]

Friday Finds: December 19, 2008

 

 

Friday Finds is a peek at what books have caught my eye this week; it’s a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should be Reading.  I’ve added both of these to my wish list:

 

Hitler and Mars Bars, written by Dianne Ascroft, has popped up on several blogs in the past few weeks.  I added it to [...]

Friday Finds: December 12, 2008

 

 

Friday Finds is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.  Here’s where you can find a list of books that caught my eye as I read the blogs, newspaper reviews, and …  talked to strangers:

 

The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne; read some great reviews at Booking Mama and BermudaOnion.

The Little Book by Selden Edwards.  While waiting for [...]

Friday Finds: November 21, 2008

Here we go, time to round up the books that have crossed our paths this week!  I have a few new and interesting books to review, as well as a couple that friends have lent me just for fun:

 

 

 

I’ll be reviewing Julie Gabriel’s The Green Beauty Guide for her TLC Book Tour on December 4.  [...]

Friday Finds: November 14, 2008

 

We had firefighters come to the house this week, instead of UPS!  My book intake was low, but there’s something to be said for that old adage “slow and steady wins the race;” I’m racing against myself to shorten my TBR stack! 

 

 

 

Bloomsbury USA sent me this gorgeous hardcover of Vivian Swift’s When Wanderers Cease to [...]

Friday Finds: November 7, 2008

I’m happy to see Friday rolling around this week!  That nasty conjunctivitis/virus that has been working its way through my house the past two weeks finally hit me    Four family members down, two to go … although I’m hoping my husband and LW12 will be spared!  I wasn’t able to get out for [...]

Friday Finds: October 31, 2008

Oh, I have some good finds to share with you this week!  First up is a small but wonderful stack of books I picked up at a church Fall Festival this weekend.  I exercised great restraint, and at 50 cents a book, got these for less than the price of my Starbucks chai latte:

 

 

Where the [...]