2013’s reading challenges went so well I’ve decided to tempt fate by tackling some again this year. I won’t be able to get an early start due to an insane Christmas schedule (moving in the cold is so lame), but I plan to hit the ground running come January 1. Here’s my 2014 challenges. Join…
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2013 Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
While I was less than thrilled with my reading challenge attempts in 2011 and 2012, this year I’m writing for a different reason: I finished! 3/3 for the Reading Outside the Box challenge 12/12 for the Mount TBR challenge 1/1 for the Audio Book Challenge (plus several bonus “reads”!) I didn’t really expect to complete…
Review: Chapman’s Odyssey
(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the Opposites Attract category, in which I read a book that’s opposite to what I normally grab.) As 70-something writer Harry Chapman lies in his hospital bed, the voices of the present—doctors, nurses, other patients—are not the…
Review: What Alice Forgot
Alice Love is 29, madly in love with her husband Nick, and pregnant with their first child. They live in an eccentric old house they’re slowly renovating, and Alice looks forward to many years of happiness with her family. So when she finds herself coming out of unconsciousness on a gym floor and off to…
Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
“Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray…