Category Archives: For the love of books

Have I’m mentioned I’m moving? And that I have to hire movers? And what does this have to do with books? To start, I’ve had movers in to quote the move. To make my life simpler, I want them to pack the books because I have a lot and the last time I packed them,Continue reading “Moving My Library and Finding More Books”

Description: a creative arts therapies modality that involves storytelling or the reading of specific texts with the purpose of healing. It uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy. Bibliotherapy is often combined with writing therapy.  For the last few months, I have been getting an advertisementContinue reading “Bibliotherapy”

Current book is still The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero. I’m halfway through and I’ve had an interesting insight about myself I’ll share next week. I’m beginning to think I should change the name of this section from “For the Love of Books” to “Dark Secrets of an Avid Reader”. This week’s darkContinue reading “Dark Secrets of an Avid Reader”

What I am reading at the moment – The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero. Discussion to follow soon. Well, I might as well say what I really want to about being gifted books for Christmas, or birthdays for that matter, and risk sounding ungrateful (I’m not). I really do not like people gifting me booksContinue reading “The Challenge of Gifting Books”

Ok, I’m being a little (lot?) dramatic, but I almost always read paper copy books, preferably hardcovers. Secondary to that is paperback novels and that’s usually because it’s the medium that was chosen for the book. Recorded books are a no go, mostly because of the list below, but also, if I’m listening to somethingContinue reading “Give Me Hard Copy Books or Give Me Nothing At All!”

Battleground has been finished and awaits placement among its companions (after cataloguing of course). I was thrilled with the ending because my favorite character survived, which given that he’s the lead should be the case, but that doesn’t always hold true these days. More importantly the ending indicated that there is another book in theContinue reading “December Recommended Reads from B&N and Penguin Random House”

After I finished Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks last week, I debated between reading the follow-up next or switching to the new Rick Riordan book. However, I’d been deprived of Harry Dresden for far too long and plowed on ahead with Battleground and I have not been disappointed.  With just under a hundred pages left (andContinue reading “What Did I Expect From A Book Called Battleground?”