I declared March to be Biography Month and have finished my first one: Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray. It was first rate and here’s my review which I’ve also posted at LibraryThing:
I didn’t know much about Woody Guthrie except the myth and a few bits and pieces that [...]
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The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Posted in March 6th, 2010
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March is Biography Month
Posted in February 28th, 2010
by witchyrichy in Reading
Here’s the bad news: I have fallen behind on the 75 book challenge by about two books. I’m up to 10 but it seemed to take a long time to get through Spirituality for Our Global Community, a choice for my book group.
The prose was oddly stilted and while I’m not sure I didn’t agree [...]
I Have Been Reading, Really!
Posted in February 21st, 2010
by witchyrichy in Reading
So now I know why people make themselves post every day…if you don’t, you suddenly lift your head and it’s been two weeks! I have excuses, plenty of them: house sitting in a not-quite-so-connected house, commuting from said house, a bout of some flu bug, work, work, work, and so on. Nothing special just really [...]
Reading Reviews
Posted in February 7th, 2010
by witchyrichy in Reading
The beginning of the semester here in the ‘burg put the brakes on my reading pace. But, now that most of the start up meetings are over and the syllabi are published, I’m back at it. It took me longer that I expected to finish two books: Girl Mary by Petru Popescu and [...]
Friday Finds
Posted in January 29th, 2010
I added a few new book blogs to my aggregator including Should Be Reading. I like the way the MizB has weekly topics including Musing Mondays and Teaser Tuesdays along with a few others. Fridays are dedicated to “finds”: books you’ve heard about or discovered during the week.
I wandered into my Books A Million on [...]
There’s No Accounting For Taste
Posted in January 5th, 2010
I just finished my first Early Reviewer book for LibraryThing: The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren. A mystery set in Appalachian Georgia with a backdrop of carriage racing. I enjoyed it…not great literature but in the same tradition as Janet Evanovich and Diane Mott Davison. You can read my review at LT. Here’s [...]
A Year of Reading
Posted in December 30th, 2009
Since I’m not going to finish another book between now and midnight tomorrow, I can report my book count for 2009: 51. That includes both text and audio. The first book I recorded in LibraryThing was A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris. And the last was Why We Believe What We Believe [...]
A Window On Slavery and the South
Posted in November 17th, 2009
by witchyrichy in Reading
It felt like it took a long time, but I finally finished The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed. I am a fan of Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant, complex man whose paradoxes demonstrate his humanity. This book spends a lot of time examining those paradoxes.
Because Gordon-Reed refers to the Hemings, Wayles, and [...]
A Reading Week in Review
Posted in October 31st, 2009
With my book group’s next meeting looming on Sunday, I finally picked up Switching to Goddess by Jeri Studebaker. I found myself alternating between being irritated by her somewhat flippant, often silly-sounding tone and being impressed by the way she was really saying that the Emperor (that is contemporary religions) really don’t have any clothes. [...]
No Place Is Safe
Posted in October 17th, 2009
I learned two things yesterday:
1. My husband doesn’t read this blog.
2. Even the linen closet isn’t safe.
I learned these at the same time when, sparring a bit over books, he told me he had discovered the books in the linen closet. I replied that I had wondered if he read my blog. He [...]
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