Category Archives: Book Talk

Top Ten Halloween-like Books

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Thistle

This week, the Top Ten topic is books/movies that get us in the Halloween spirit. Since I’m not really a huge movie person, I’ve decided to go with books. That, of course, means that this list will read kinda like … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Utter Readathon Fail

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Thistle

Um…I was supposed to participate in Readathon yesterday. I haven’t participated in quite some time, and I was looking forward to it this fall. I knew it was going to be hectic, and busy, because yesterday was my oldest son’s … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Busy busy busy

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Thistle

I haven’t had time for much these days. Been under a lot of stress. Just wanted to take a moment to pop my head back in and say hello. Hopefully soon I’ll get back to my feed reader and responding … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Character-Driven Novels

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Thistle

I adore character-driven novels, so it was really hard to limit this post to ten titles! Here’s what I came up with, in no particular order: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker – I adore seeing character-driven fantasy novels. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Reflections on 2010: Guilt-reading

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Thistle

My years of book blogging look like a bell curve: starting with a lower number of books read per year, rising steadily for several years, and then slowly dropping back down. The peak of that curve was in 2010, a … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Difficult Reads

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Thistle

This is an interesting topic. I wasn’t quite sure how I should define “difficult.” There are a lot of reasons a book might be difficult to read. After some debate, I decided to include several different kinds of difficulty here. Readability: There are … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – A Rating History

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Thistle

Last week in my Sunday Coffee post, I talked about how my impressions of books tend to change over time. I wanted to sort of continue that talk, specifically with regards to ratings. Ratings are a really easy way to … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Fall TBR Books

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Thistle

I have so many books that I want to read right now! Most of my fall TBR is made up of either RIP-related books or brand new books by some of my favorite authors (either just out or almost out). … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – First Impressions

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Thistle

(My pjs and mustache kinda match this morning…) It has been a really busy week, and a hard one, fraught with insomnia and so many school functions to attend that I had little time to recover. In my down moments – … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Reflections on 2009

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Thistle

All of my reviews from 2009, excepting a handful that have been lost since their original posting, are now transferred to this blog. That was a big year for me in blogging. I only started blogging, then book blogging, in 2008, … Continue reading →

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