Throwback Thursday Bingo Square. Goodreads tells me I first read Garden Spells in 2010. (Or maybe that’s when I first signed up for Goodreads, who knows?) Either way, it was a while back. But I’ve been in transition again (in two houses, in different rooms now in each house), so I’ve been moving a lot of my things, packing others up for storage and (painfully) whittling back my bookcases, for space reasons, and the “keeper book” criteria was as stringent as I could manage (which is […]
Practically Practical Magic
Sarah Addison Allen is a delight. A little backstory regarding my first reading selection of the new year: I just moved from the balmy south to the chilly Midwest and am experiencing my first real winter in about 8 years. I reached out to the Cannonball Read hive mind for reads that would either raise my spirits (light and fluffy things to warm my heart) or create a sense of schadenfreude (people having miserable winters, or miserable life happenings) and someone mentioned Allen, who was […]
A nice glass of sweet tea.
Lately I’ve been into non-fiction. Some of them have been uplifting and given me renewed hope in humanity–would that there were more Dr. Mutters in the world, right? How amazing that we can treat things with antibiotics! However, some of them, although well written and fascinating, make me despair for humanity. The Devil in the White City‘s psychopathic murderer bummed me out, and I’m currently reading King Leopold’s Ghost, which is very good and also seriously so depressing. At the 50% mark, I needed a break. The public library […]
Discovering Sarah Addison Allen (Reviews 23-26)
Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its, just to get your attention. – Sarah Allison Allen, The Sugar Queen I heard about Sarah Addison Allen when reading through some old cannonball posts for inspiration, so it should be no surprise to my fellow cannonballers that, after devouring Garden Spells, I went on to read everything that she’s written, with one notable exception: I could not bring myself to read Lost Lake. This […]