Bookworm: February 2015

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.” - Philippa Gregory

Ohhhh, February. February was lovely this year...packed full of friends, family, and lots to celebrate! I'll never stop being grateful for the freedom I have in the winters now, which means I have plenty of time to dig into my ridiculously long reading list!

Loved: 

Straight Up and Dirty, Stephanie Klein

What Nora Knew, Linda Yellin

Enjoyed: 

What We've Lost is Nothing, Rachel Louise Snyder

The Accidental Empress, Allison Pataki

Moose, Stephanie Klein

Wideacre, Philippa Gregory

Tolerated:

Royal Mistress, Anne Easter Smith 

Re-reads: 

The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory

Bookworm: January 2015

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” -Joyce Carol Oates

To quote my beloved Olaf the Snowman in "Frozen," "Winter's a good time to stay in and cuddle..."...up with a book. I read The Notebook this month randomly because it seems like something every basic girl should have read...and oh my god, I hated it. Thank goodness for redeeming literature, including Pulitzer Prize-winning Blonde and the fascinating profile of Reagan and LBJ that Mike let me borrow, to get that bad taste out of my memory! As for re-reads...if you haven't read The Night Circus,  I can't recommend it highly enough. This is my fifth re-read in about 2 years...I just love it. 

Loved: 

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Enjoyed: 

The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant

Landslide: LBJ and Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, Jonathan Darman (#2 of my five biographies for #76 in my 101 in 1001 list!)

I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto

Tolerated: 

The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

Godiva: A Novel, Nicole Galland

Re-reads:

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

Bookworm: December 2014

“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement she had read more widely and with greater enjoyment and comprehension in the last six years than in all the past fifteen, augmenting an education which, she now understood, had never been other than rudimentary.” --PD James

Loved: 

Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James

Enjoyed: 

The King's Curse, Philippa Gregory

Tolerated: 

Re-reads: 

Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce

Alanna: In the Hands of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce

Alanna: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Tamora Pierce

Alanna: Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce

ild Magic, Tamora Pierce

Wolf-Speaker, Tamora Pierce

Emperor Mage, Tamora Pierce

In the Realms of the Gods, Tamora Pierce

First Test, Tamora Pierce

Page, Tamora Pierce

Squire, Tamora Pierce

Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce

Trickster's Choice, Tamora Pierce

Trickster's Queen, Tamora Pierce

Bookworm: November 2014

As the weather has turned colder and the days have grown darker, I've spent an inordinate amount of time in one of my favorite places: curled up in my armchair under a blanket, with a good book and my fireplace crackling a few feet away. It's heavenly!

Loved: 

A Song For Summer, Eva Ibbotson

Madensky Square, Eva Ibbotson

The Soldier's Wife, Margaret Leroy

Enjoyed: 

Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska 

The Engagements, J. Courtney Sullivan

Tolerated: 

And the re-reads: 

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The American Heiress, Daisy Goodwin

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley

Othello, William Shakespeare

Bookworm: September/October 2014

“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.” -Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans

Holy delinquency, Batman! With all the events of late September and early October, I completely forgot to update my nerdish book log, so the universe gets treated to a two-for-one today!

Loved: 

The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd

The Morning Gift, Eva Ibbotson

Henry V, William Shakespeare

Enjoyed: 

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H.W. Brands (#1 of 101 in 1001 #76!)

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tolerated: 

Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham

Shopaholic to the Stars, Sophie Kinsella

And the last couple months' re-reads: 

A Company of Swans, Eva Ibbotson

A Countess Below Stairs, Eva Ibbotson

Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn