Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 9, 2012, 2:41 pm
It seems that decorating using books by the yard is not really a new phenomenon! Although to be fair, the gentleman does seem to be a tad excitable about that fact! A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unst...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 8, 2012, 2:34 pm
Our story was just a single line in this vast narrative of hope. Every family had begun their journey here before spreading out in waves across the country, on the crest of their immigrant dreams. (page 34) When Frederick Meisenheimer started serenading Jette Furst from behind the hedge in a G...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 8, 2012, 3:34 am
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 7, 2012, 4:53 am
My book club book for January was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. For me, this is a reread as I read this book, and I think Tender is the Night, during my high school years. It is interesting to see what you can and can't remember from reading a book that long ago. I remembered certa...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 5, 2012, 8:08 pm
As as an established fan of the Phryne Fisher mysteries by Kerrie Greenwood, I was very pleased to hear that the series was being adapted for TV. The series will be shown starting later in February (24th to be exact!) on Australian TV, and now we have a trailer to watch too! Hat tip to...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 5, 2012, 2:31 pm
... both Falling Free and Shards of Honor. One thing that I ... ; Cordelia Naismith is a member of the Betan Expeditionary Force sent ... , however, not completely in control of their surroundings either. Not only ... . By necessity, Cordelia, one of her injured crew members, and ... comes ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 4, 2012, 7:12 pm
I never did get around to listing my December reads, so my Sunday Salon post this week is going to be my readings lists for both December and January. December reads The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James 4/5 Awakened by PC Cast and Kristin Cast 2.5/5 Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr 4/5 ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 4, 2012, 2:24 am
I should probably confess straight up that my post today has the most tenuous of connections to cooking. There is the word pie in the title, and there is a custard pie in the story, so I am counting it! Actually, thinking about custard pies brought back memories of when I first arrived in the ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 3, 2012, 3:09 am
Before I start my review proper there are a couple of things I wanted to mention. Firstly, over at Historical Tapestry, Christine Blevins wrote an awesome blog post for us about Women at War. We are also giving away an 18th century style stationery pack to one lucky winner. We are also currently giv...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 1, 2012, 5:23 pm
... Apple, which is the fourth book in the sprawling Morland dynasty series. ... As it seems is normal, in a Morland novel, some characters ... time. One character who was in little danger of being killed ... captures the hearts of all the men around her at Morland with the utmost ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Feb 1, 2012, 2:39 am
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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 ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 31, 2012, 1:50 am
It is inevitable that as soon as I say that I am possibly that last blogger alive to read this book, there will be a chorus of people saying 'I haven't read it yet", but I am going to say it anyway.... I am possibly one of the last bloggers to read this first book in the Flavia de Luce series ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 29, 2012, 4:55 pm
Some times you read a book that makes you grateful that you live in this time and this place. Sure, in 50 years time our grandkids might look back and wonder how we put up with .... whatever, but for the most part here in Australia we have a pretty free and easy lifestyle. I do know thou...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 28, 2012, 5:37 pm
I suddenly realised this week that I still haven't managed to post my goals for 2012 in relation to blogging and reading, so this week my Sunday Salon post is going to be doing just that. After all, it would probably be best to do so while the month is still January! To be honest, most of the ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 28, 2012, 4:08 am
After a couple of weeks off from Weekend Cooking, I am back with a quote pages 42 to 43 from Christine Blevins' The Tory Widow, mainly because it made me smile during my commute to work earlier this week. Crisscrossing the room, Mrs. Merrick carried a tray and Sally handled the cof...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 27, 2012, 1:02 am
Just a quick note to say that Jenny from It's All in the Details has invited me to answer her Reviewer Spotlight questions! You can read my responses here.Please note that I have recently changed my URL to www.theintrepidreader.com. Please update your feeds accordingly. ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 26, 2012, 5:32 pm
... be used considering the frantic impatience with which she awaited tomorrow night. The novel she was reading, Wuthering Heights, had been sent to her aunt from England by her Cousin Maude. It was, wrote Cousin ... it down. Almost makes me think I should make the effort to read Wuthe...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 25, 2012, 6:16 pm
Today it is Australia Day which means a day off work and the opportunity to spend time with friends. A bit later today I am heading off to a barbecue, and then coffee with some bookish pals but before that I thought it might be time to actually look at the books I have sitting around on ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 24, 2012, 8:49 pm
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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 ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 22, 2012, 11:30 pm
From the award winning author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker Prize. Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine and what it comes for. Let it creep. From the dark heart of a Vict...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 22, 2012, 6:38 pm
Trying out the new blogger threaded comments to see if it works or not.Please note that I have recently changed my URL to www.theintrepidreader.com. Please update your feeds accordingly. This post was originally posted by Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. It should not...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 21, 2012, 10:06 pm
Given that the last time I went fishing was probably 25 years ago and I don't really have any intention of doing so in the next 25 years, I should probably come clean and say that I didn't really go fishing in the last week. Instead, my longest break from blogging in six years (I think anyway)...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 20, 2012, 3:43 am
Like so many of my fellow readers, I love it when an author has their characters talk about their love of reading or libraries, or specific books from the past! I am guaranteed to stop reading and go back and reread a passage again if they do so that I too can savour the words and emotions expressed...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 18, 2012, 6:00 pm
Welcome to Grace Valley, California---where blood runs thicker...ties bind stronger...and love is all the more sweet.  Visitors to the town often remark about the valley's peace and beauty---both of which are plentiful. Unlocked doors, front porches, pies cooling in the windows---this is country li...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 18, 2012, 5:18 am
I must start by apologising for the delay in announcing the winner of the Discovery of Witches giveaway. I had to travel interstate unexpectedly and so I had limited internet access through my phone and I wasn't going to try writing long blog posts on that! I arrived home at 3am this morning and had...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 10, 2012, 1:58 am
Marg will unexpectedly be gone until the weekend or early next week. Please note that I have recently changed my URL to www.theintrepidreader.com. Please update your feeds accordingly. This post was originally posted by Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. It should not be rep...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 8, 2012, 6:33 am
Some Sunday's when I sit down to write my Sunday Salon post I have no idea what I am planning to post about. Other weeks I have the one idea so that makes it easier, but the best kind of weeks are those weeks when I have a myriad of ideas to choose from! This week is one of those weeks. I haven't ye...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 4, 2012, 9:25 am
As you may or may not know, I find the subjects of World War I and World War II to be completely fascinating. I love reading about the bravery of people who were put in desperate situations, about the relationships that they formed under such duress and so much more. Many of the stories that I have ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 4, 2012, 4:06 am
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 3, 2012, 6:24 am
This week my teaser comes from Far Fly the Eagles by Evelyn Anthony which is the third book in the Romanov trilogy. This book was originally published in 1955 but the edition that I am reading was published in 1989 but I am having absolutely no luck in tracking down the cover that the copy that I am...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 2, 2012, 5:19 am
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge End Date 31 December 2012 What's in a Name 5 Ends 31 December 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Ends 31 December 2012 War Through the Generations Ends 31 December 2012Aussie Author Challenge Ends 31 December 20122012 Sci-fi experience Ends 29 February 2012...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 1, 2012, 6:30 pm
The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett’s social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizz...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Jan 1, 2012, 6:40 am
Happy New Year to my blogging friends! A couple of days ago I posted about my favourite reads of the year, but now it is time to dig a little deeper and see what I can learn from my reading this year. I completed 228 books during 2011 which is my best reading year since I started ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 31, 2011, 3:07 am
Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads and is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographsPlease note that I have recently changed my URL to...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 14, 2011, 7:58 pm
Last week I posted a couple of Christmas based excerpts from Empire Day by Diane Chamberlain. Today and tomorrow we are going to revisit some of those same characters. Today's quote comes from page 291 After giving Meggsie a bed bath and massaging his back and legs, Kath went into the kitchen...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 14, 2011, 5:11 am
... all the requests come in at once. Here's my loot for this week: One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare - Time to start Tessa Dare's second trilogy. I really ... Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - This is a reread for me, and is my January book club book. The Winding Ways ... seems t...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 13, 2011, 8:07 pm
Today's quote comes from one of the stories in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It anthology. It is from page 122 and is from the story Jane Austen and the Mistletoe Kiss by Jo Beverley Elinor laughed at that, turning to share amusement with the Austen ladies. "I'm far past the age for mistletoe kisses,...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 13, 2011, 5:19 am
Not too long ago a couple of my Goodreads pals were reading the Eden series by this author, and they were all raving about them. My library didn't have any of Marilyn Harris' books at all, and even through inter-library loan there are only a couple of her books available, and only one of the series ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 11, 2011, 7:08 pm
Today's quote comes from The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison, which is the story of a young girl who is evacuated from war time London to a big house in the country. Some of the evacuees never got letters, but they still could not resist hovering on the outside edge of the letter crowd with forl...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 11, 2011, 5:24 am
... world due to the melting of the polar ice caps! ... released in February is called The Reluctant Hallelujah. I really enjoyed ... Gabrielle as she talked through the amazing writing process that she ... of which will count towards the Australian Women Writer's Challenge ... another BT...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 10, 2011, 7:02 pm
For last week's Weekend Cooking post I reviewed John Baxter's Immovable Feast: A Paris Christmas. My quote today comes from that book and is describing the author's first French Christmas with his new extended family. This quote comes from page 19: With Jean-Paul present, the meal could begin....
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 10, 2011, 6:32 am
Sunbird is one of the short stories in the Fragile Things short story collection by Neil Gaiman that I finished reading at the end of October as part of the readalong during RIP VI. Now you would have thought after 8 weeks of posts about this short story collection that I wouldn't have much more to ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 9, 2011, 9:31 pm
The third and final character that I am going to introduce you to for these posts is Marija who is struggling with the idea of a hot Christmas, something that seems quite normal to us Southern Hemisphere peeps! There are lots of other characters to meet in the pages of Empire Day by Diane Cham...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Dec 8, 2011, 7:37 pm
In today's excerpts from Empire Day by Diane Chamberlain we hear part of Kath's story: Kath is a single mum, battling to make ends meet, and also having to deal with the serious illness of one of her children. This one is for the battlers. Page 216: Christmas was approaching and she regrette...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Nov 2, 2011, 6:00 am
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Nov 1, 2011, 7:33 am
I was thinking of not doing a teaser this week but then I read these couple of lines and knew they would make an awesome teaser. They come from page 260: "A half a mil...half a mil..." She cleared her throat and tried again. "A half a million dollars in the bookcase?" Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Miz...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Oct 31, 2011, 7:24 pm
Today was the running of the 151st Melbourne Cup! We all get the day off work to sit around and watch the 'race that stops the nation'. If you are lucky you get to do it in good company with good food and drink and have a little bit of a flutter! And yes, I am lucky. Luckily we don't ha...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Oct 31, 2011, 6:14 am
After being very controlled last month, I have had a bit of a book blowout this month! Netgalley The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott - With the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic happening next year there are bound to be a number of books out about those events. This will likely be the first one I ...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Oct 30, 2011, 8:26 am
Let me tell you stories of the months of the year, of ghosts and heartbreak, of dread and desire. Of after-hours drinking and unanswered phones, of good deeds and bad days, of trusting wolves and how to talk to girls. There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted ab...
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Marg B. posted an article on ReadingAdventures - Oct 29, 2011, 6:14 pm
Get Glue Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google + Goodreads LibraryThing Foursquare Tumblr Readalongs Challenges I have been thinking a lot about balance lately, specifically the balance between blogging and all the associated activities a...
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