Depending on whether or not you read my blog via email/RSS or “in person,” you may not have seen that I’ve added a 2013 Reading Challenges page. I’ve moped frequently about my apparent inability to complete more than one challenge so far, so this year I played it safe and signed up for three. 🙂…
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Review: The Scarlet Pimpernel
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) 1792 Paris is not an ideal place to be an aristocrat. The French Revolution is well underway, and heads are rolling faster than one can count. Aristocrats, guilty or not, are…
Review: From the Mixed-Up Files…
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge.) Claudia Kincaid does not like discomfort. So when she decides to run away, she makes two decisions: to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and to bring her penny-pinching—and therefore wealthy—little brother with her. This adventure alone would be enough…
Review: Murder on the Orient Express
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) When he hops aboard the Orient Express, Inspector Hercule Poirot expects a quiet trek across Europe. But when one of the passengers is killed in the middle of the night, Poirot…
Review: A Monster Calls
(I read this book as part of the Pay it Sideways Challenge. Join in anytime, we’d love to have you!) The only good thing about the appearance of a monster outside his bedroom window is that it’s not the monster Conor is expecting. He’s been having the same nightmare for months, since his mother got…