Reviews, Reviews, Reviews

Just popping into Sunday Salon to catch up a little on reviews. Happy Mother's Day, everyone! 

What I Finished Recently cover title author review Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1) Horowitz, Anthony Alex Rider, in rapid succession, learns (1) his guardian uncle is dead, (2) his uncle was a spy, and (3) Alex himself must take his uncle’s place...more Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Sanders, Ella Frances Here are a few you should add to your personal dictionaries: gezellig...a positive warm emotion, connoting time spent with loved ones… meraki...pouring ...more Looking for Alibrandi Marchetta, Melina * Looking for Alibrandi takes me to a part of Australia I didn’t know existed and includes characters I never suspected were part of Australian life...more Happiness for Beginners Center, Katherine * I love the way Katherine Center tells a story. Her characters are people that inhabit my world; they suffer yet they laugh, too. This is the story of ...more Just Kids Smith, Patti I didn’t know much about either Patti Smith or Robert Maplethorpe except the sort of murky rumors that always surround celebrity, and most of that tawdry...more Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity Price, Asher * I can certainly see my own sons at Price’s age attempting this feat. Something in the male soul longs to compete even as the male body is starting to ...more My Life in Middlemarch Mead, Rebecca * Perfect timing. This book arrived in the mail from the publisher only days after I finished Middlemarch. It’s a book of reflections upon Middlemarch. ...more Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Gawande, Atul It’s coming for us all. We choose to ignore it, forget about it, laugh it off, distract ourselves. But, nevertheless, we are all headed for those last ...more The Detective's Assistant Hannigan, Kate * Nell heads off to her only living relative, her aunt Kate, but Kate’s not inclined to taking in the orphan girl. Kate’s pretty busy herself, as the fi ...more Middlemarch Eliot, George I started Middlemarch on January first and lingered over it for weeks, months, before finally finishing it off during the twenty-four hour readathon. ...more The Promise Weisgarber, Ann * A disgraced woman, with no other options, agrees to marry an old suitor who has recently become a widower. She arrives in Galveston in August of 1900. ...more

What are you reading today?!

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week.