Backstory: I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for at least eight months now. (Confession: there are books that have been sitting on my shelf unread for years. I’m an impulse shopper. Further confession: by the shelf, I mean the floor.) The reviews are fantastic–it was a New York Times Notable Book. But the [...]
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January 23, 2009
Nice to Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers
Backstory: This is a bargain book I picked up at Borders for about five dollars–so my expectations were low. Its cover, title, and inside flap made it seem like standard chick lit fare. But I was encouraged by a blurb on the back from Marisa de los Santos; I loved both of her novels, Love [...]
January 7, 2009
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Translated by Lucia Graves)
Backstory: My sister-in-law insisted that I read this book. Immediately. Actually, she insisted that everyone she knew read this book immediately, even devoting her facebook status to the cause for a few days. Though she and I don’t have identical taste, she reads almost as much as I do, so when she tells me to [...]
