Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
Genre: Non-fiction
Alright, this was one book that I couldn’t wait to write about on here. If I could I would send all of you a copy of this book for a couple of reasons: a) this is perhaps one of the most informative novels I’ve read, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
27 Feb
Stiff – Review
26 Feb
Booking Through Thursday #24
* Hardcover? Or paperback?
* Illustrations? Or just text?
* First editions? Or you don’t care?
* Signed by the author? Or not?
Well this is quite easy to answer. The answers seem to be quite basic, but knowing that the underlying theme is collectibles would make these answers different (I would think) if I looked [...]
25 Feb
BBC Books Meme
So, here is a meme that is floating around on Facebook and I thought it would be more appropriate to post it here. Rather than tagging anyone to do this if you’re interested feel free to take part and post your link in the comments to we can take a look at your list.
Apparently [...]
25 Feb
The Book Thief – Review
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction/Young Readers
Printz Award winner
There are few books that you read in your life that really move you to your very soul. I can only think of two from all the books that I’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird and Martha Ostenso’s Wild Geese. Markus Zusak has managed to [...]
24 Feb
Fruit – Review
I’ve been really slow on the uptake here. I’ve finally read my first book for The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge, Eh! Not only have I read this book for this particular challenge but I’m also reading this for Canada Reads 2009. I hope to get all the Canada Reads 2009 books but [...]
23 Feb
Weekly Review #8
Well I guess this past week made up for the previous week. I got three books finished and got a giveaway started. I guess I have several reviews I should get working on and posting on here but I keep finding other things that I want to talk about on here so the reviews get [...]
19 Feb
Booking Through Thursday #23
I recently got new bookshelves for my room, and I’m just loving them. Spent the afternoon putting up my books and sharing it on my blog . One of my friends asked a question and I thought it would be a great BTT question. So from Tina & myself, we’d like to know “How do [...]
17 Feb
Weekly Review #7
When it comes to reading it’s been a rather slow week. I was wanting to get more read but as usual life tends tends to get in the way so some things get left behind and unfortunately it was reading that has had to suffer. When life gets busy for you how do you get [...]
