Winter Bookish Bingo update

BINGO! As you can see, I've gotten two bingos since the last time I posted about WBB (which has been far too long ago!). Not YA: "Everything You Want Me to Be" by Mindy Mejia White Cover: "Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk" by Kathleen Rooney FREE SPACE Science Fiction: "Three Years with the Rat" by …

January wrap-up

My goodness! Where did January go? In terms of reading during the first month of 2017, I was incredibly busy – 12 books! I'm slacking a bit with my blog and my reviews lately ... still need to review two of the books I finished in January. In my defense, there's been a lot of …

WWW Wednesday: Jan. 25, 2017

Happy Hump Day! My blog has been pretty review-dense lately, so I decided to try something I haven't done in a while. WWW Wednesday is a meme currently hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s very simple – answer the three questions and leave a link on Sam’s post. The Three Ws …

Review: “Dust Bowl Girls”

"Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed its Way to Basketball Glory" by Lydia Reeder 304 pages, Algonquin Books Published Jan. 24, 2017 ISBN: 1616204664 Lydia Reeder, great-niece of college women's basketball coach Sam Babb, lays out a story that deserved to be told in "Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story …

Book Traveling Thursdays: Favorite author

How 'bout them Cubbies?! I'm still reeling from last night's World Series victory. It kinda feels like Christmas morning every time I think about it.   It's Thursday again...time for another installment of Book Traveling Thursdays, a weekly meme hosted by Danielle and Cátia at Goodreads. This week's theme is a favorite author. This was …

Go, Cubs, go

Good morning, all. I'm back from a two-day blogging hiatus. My reading has been a bit stagnant because, as you may have heard unless you're living under a rock, the Chicago Cubs on Saturday night advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1945.   Game 1 is tonight. I'm a fairly new fan …

Week in review – Oct. 22, 2016

Another week is almost in the books. This past week, I didn't read as much as I'd have liked BECAUSE NLCS PLAYOFFS. Go, Cubs, go. Jared and I are nervously awaiting tonight's Game 6. You can read my husband's thoughts on the playoffs here - he is a lifelong Cubs fan and knows his stuff. (I just …