Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Didn’t get most of what I planned to done this week (surprise) but I did squeeze in one more quick book, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, which is our March book club book. I was reluctant to read it since some of the other people in the book club we’re already planning on skipping this [...]

Finished People of the Book: A Novel yesterday, which is going to be our book club book in a couple of months but my colleague recommended it so strongly I had to read it right away. She was right, I absolutely loved it and snuck in chances to read it every time Clara ate or [...]

I finished reading The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig this afternoon (enjoying a bit of my last day before work).  Its a very satisfying historical romance/spy novel (with a bit of modern day grad student chick lit thrown in for fun around the edges). From the author’s web site, it looks like [...]

I managed to squeeze in two more books, probably the last two before maternity leave ends (though I just received my pre-ordered copy of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig, the latest in the fantastic series that started with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, so I may try to sneak [...]

Finished One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson today. Its the sequel to Case Histories which I had also really enjoyed. There’s a third coming out in the fall apparently, and there’s a little preview bit at the end of this one. I really like Kate Atkinson’s books (I think I’ve read all but one of [...]

Finally finished off The Distant Land of My Father this afternoon (Clara seems to be in a bit of a growth spurt, so there has been more time than usual to sit around feeding her and sometimes that even means being able to get a bit of reading in… though still pretty rarely)  As I [...]

I finally finished reading Brian’s book today (now I’m just waiting for the final bit to be posted on their web site as promised at the end of the last chapter), and over our holiday trip I read The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets which I absolutely loved and couldn’t put down (and when I [...]

Ok, I haven’t blogged any books I’ve read for AGES and AGES (not really since last February, except for the Harry Potter and Jasper Fforde entries). I have managed to add most of the books I’ve read to my list on Facebook at least, so I’m going to try to dump them here so at [...]