Month: May 2016
What I’m Reading
It’s Tuesday, but it feels like a Monday because we had that awesome 3 day weekend. I want more weekends/weeks like that, I think. Anyway, it’s time to talk about what I am reading on this glorious day… Here’s a sample of what I’m reading. The Love of the Last Tycoon is an authorized text…
Understanding Exposure: A Book for the Beginner
I’m a fan of photography, and am always looking for ways to expand my knowledge and skill level. Within its 167 pages, Understanding Exposure, Fourth Edition, allows readers to see amazing pictures while gaining practical knowledge about their camera settings AND exercises that are both fun and functional. Drilling through Exposure, Aperture, Light, Shutter Speed…
Twelve Steps: A Review of the Libby Garrett Intervention (Science Squad #2)
Libby Garrett is smart, but she’s also being used. A friend of Avery Shaw, Libby has been spending more and time with Owen, the hunky college basketball player… To the detriment of her own happiness. Owen doesn’t just want to keep them low key, he wants to keep their arrangement (and their sexual relationship) to…
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt:: A Short Story Collection by Aimee Bender
I have a love/hate relationship with short story collections. Sometimes I just can’t wrap by head around them. But, I remember one of the Rubber City Book Posse members telling me YEARS ago that I might enjoy Bender’s work. This particular book say in my head for years, until I finally made the leap and…
The most painful feeling in the world–in a fun journal!!!!
Brain Freezes, we’ve all had them. And they’re NOT fun at all. However, the great folks at Potter Style (a division of Crown Publishing/Penguin Random House) have created a fun little journal dedicated to sweetening the most scary of all ice cream feelings. The Brain Freeze journal is a great book that is compact, and…
It’s Monday, What are you reading?
It is Monday, time for the Book Date to ask us book bloggers what we are reading. Here is what I hope to read this week… I am about 75 pages into Vostok, which is the latest from the guy who wrote MEG. Kazuo Ishiguro is someone I have been meaning to delve into more…