Every time we read a new book, it’s a new experience. Some books we end up loving, some books we simply can’t stand. Some we MUST own so we can read them over and over again, others we’re happy to borrow from friends or the library. And, of course, sometimes any of these things can [...]
Category Archive — twilight
Book News, Jan. 8th
Happy New Year, bookworms and welcome (back) to the first Book News of 2011. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? In the last three weeks, we’ve had Christmas (three cheers for bookstore gift certificates!), New Year’s (the world’s most anti-climactic holiday) and a few snow storms. The book world hasn’t slowed down either, so [...]
Word of the Week (1)
In Julia Quinn’s Regency romance, To Catch an Heiress, heroine Caroline Trent has the quirky habit of writing down words in a personal notebook, along with their definition, so that she may remember what they mean. Naturally, as someone who loves words, their meanings, their history and even their spelling, this habit charmed me and [...]
