Category Archives: For the love of books

Currently reading: Chains of Iron by Cassandra Clare The move out has finally occurred and my poor books are now packed away in a storage pod and I have to make do with the four I recently bought until I move (well three actually as I finished Stephen King’s Later) and can find the box of toContinue reading “My Books Are Packed Away 😭”

Currently reading: Just started Stephen King’s Later and I’m in! Last week, as you may recall, I had started reading a book that I wasn’t sure I had read yet – Johnathon Bellairs The Best of Bellairs 2, The Johnny Dixon Mysteries (3 stories – one book). And I had plenty of time to finish before thisContinue reading “To Put a Book Down or to Push Through?”

Currently reading: I’m about to start The Best of Bellairs 2, The Johnny Dixon Mysteries (3 stories – one book) because I bought it years ago and can’t remember if I’ve read it 🤦‍♀️. And yes, I checked my book list but under the “Read” column there is a question mark, so double 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. I think by now youContinue reading “Overly Obsessed with Books or Just Right? You Decide.”

Currently reading: I am debating between starting a trilogy or holding out until March 2, when two books I’m waiting on are released – Stephen King’s Later and Cassandra Clare’s Chains of Iron (second book in the Lost Hours Trilogy) Over the weekend, I finished up the latest Preston and Child release, The Scorpion’s Tail,Continue reading “The “Nobody Can Solve It But Me” Trope”

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.” The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Currently reading: The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon and yes it has been worth the wait. Only 80 pages to go out of 466. As anContinue reading “Confession of a Reformed Book Snob”

Last week I had just started Nora Roberts Guardian trilogy (Stars of Fortune, Bay of Sighs, Island of Glass). Thinking I was moving this week, I had placed the two of the three in the box of “to be read” preparing to seal them in. But circumstances changed and I had finished Stars of Fortune,Continue reading “Guardians Trilogy”

Currently reading: Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts. 1st in a three-part series – thankfully I have them all. If you remember, part 1 of problems was about how it sucks when your favorite series comes to an end. You just want your favorite characters to go on forever. Just as frustrating? Waiting for the nextContinue reading “The Problem with Book Series Part 2 – The Waiting”