Archive for September, 2009

BOOKISH WEDNESDAY

I am nearly finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.  The book is published by appropriately named Quirk Books and is a Quirk Classic.
This is taken from the back cover:
“‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.’
So [...]

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Momentary Few Words

Ah, Bookish Wednesday has not existed of late.  The reason — more deviation from my reading list and not finishing books to write about by Wednesday….
I never did read the final Harry Potter book, and so I have spent the last couple of weeks re-reading HP and the Half-Blood Prince before tackling HP and the Deathly [...]

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Finally Finished a Book

I finally finished another book that was on my summer reading list.  The Help by Kathryn Stockett is an excellent book.  The story is told through three main characters:  Skeeter Phelan, a young white college graduate who still lives with her parents on their cotton farm; Aibeleen, a black maid who works for Skeeter’s friend [...]

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