Short reviews of Robopocalypse, The Twelve, The Graveyard Book, The Journal of Best Practices, and Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake.
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Short reviews of A Grown Up Kind of Pretty, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, How To Be A Woman, and The Casual Vacancy.
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Book reviews: Devil in The White City; After The Quake; Gang Leader for A Day; Dear American Airlines; and Heft.
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A collection of short book reviews, including: When Will There Be Good News; Started Early, Took My Dog; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat; Girl In Translation; Curtains; and Game Change.
Read more →Mini reviews of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, The 500 by Matthew Quirk and The Taker by Alma Katsu.
Read more →Reviews of Graceling, Divergent and A Friend of the Family.
Read more →A review of the excellent YA dystopian book The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Read more →Mini book reviews of three different books: The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson and Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg.
Read more →Three book reviews of The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall, Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl, and The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell.
Read more →A review of a diet/exercise book called "The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything" by Charlotte Hilton Andersen.
Read more →A review of "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson, a supernatural historical fiction tale about past lives and how they might follow us into the present.
Read more →A review of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson. (Includes a summary of the previous two books.)
Read more →The Girl With the Dragon TattooThe Girl Who Played With FireSteig LarssonKnopf, 2008 and 2009Genre: FictionMy rating: 4 stars for both Here is the description for the Become A Character part of the Take Another Chance Challenge: For this challenge, you can read any book you want. However, you have to write about the...
Read more →The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As An ExperimentA.J. JacobsSimon & Schuster, 2009ISBN: 978-1416599067256 pagesNon-Fiction, HumorMy Rating: 3.5 stars A.J. Jacobs has created his own little niche market: conducting experiments in his life and then writing about them. The first of these books, The Know-It-All, chronicled his experience reading every single page of the...
Read more →A review of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow written in epistolary format.
Read more →Title: GemmaAuthor: Meg TillyPublisher: St. Martins Griffin, February 2010ISBN: 978-0-312-60529-2Pages: 210Genre: Fiction Story Overview Gemma Sullivan is a 12-year-old girl who hides her interest in school but secretly loves learning. She does her best to make a life for herself, despite her neglectful, alcoholic mother and the unwanted attentions of her mother’s boyfriend Buddy....
Read more →A bit about the lovely book that I think every woman should read: A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Read more →Today is the first day of my experiment in Full Contact, Total Immersion Book Reviewing. Rather than just read the book like a normal person, I’m teaming up with some other book bloggers to review a book by actually living the book! For the next month, I will be reviewing The Game On Diet...
Read more →A bit about Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs -- one of the few books I actually reread.
Read more →A bit about the wonderful memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel.
Read more →Title: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Author: Joshilyn JacksonISBN: 978-0-446-69782-8 Publisher Info: Grand Central Publishing, May 2009 Book Specs: 308 pages Book Category: Fiction, Mystery Story Overview Laurel Hawthorne is haunted by ghosts. During her childhood, she is haunted by her Uncle Marty. But Marty disappeared when Laurel and her husband David moved into...
Read more →A review of Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips.
Read more →Books about difficult childhoods.
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