My adventures through time and place, all without leaving the comfort of home. Reading is what I do to relax and escape. I enjoy lots of genres but mainly Historical Fiction, Romance, Cozy Mysteries and Young Adult fiction.
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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and me that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr....
Congratulations to Nam Le for winning the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.
Here's what the press release said:
"The winner of the 2009 Fiction Award is author Nam Le for his debut book of brilliantly crafted short stories, The...
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on...
Over at Bookthingo they are running a Melbourne Cup Sweep, where the prizes are books!
The basic idea is that if your horse wins then all the other competitors will need to send you a book!
Sound good?
Check out all the details! Be quick...
Today is Melbourne Cup day. The race that stops a nation!
When I lived in other places in Australia, Melbourne Cup day usually meant going for a long lunch, participating in a sweep and then watching the horses run to see if you won. It was always...
