By Jennie
“You have to read this book!” – words guaranteed to get my back up. There is nothing that guarantees quite the same combination of annoyance, guilt, resentment and the fear that I may be missing something as those six little words. My aunt (much loved by me in a general sense) is a great one for insisting that you read something that she loves (she does the same with movies), and usually my desire to read said book diminishes in proportion with each mention of it.
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By Jennie
Redbook has a feature on summer beach reads for 2010. Do any of these books look appealing to you? Or do you have your own summer reading list?
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“I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family”, Kate Gosselin’s memoir that picks up where “Multiple Blessings” left off is being released April 13.
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By Jennie
I’ve read several good books lately: I recently finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (who wrote The Time-Traveler’s Wife), a sort of modern-day ghost story set in London, featuring two sets of twins, long-buried family secrets, and a sprawling Victorian cemetery famous as the final resting place of Karl Marx.
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by Jennie
I’m always wishing I had more time for reading. I try to plan reading time sometimes; if I have a day off I’ll tell myself that I’m going to do nothing but read all day. It doesn’t usually pan out, though – real life has a way of intruding, with its errands, crisises, and the occasional unplanned nap.
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By Pam
My husband has always been easy to buy gifts for at Christmas time. He always has a long list of books he wants to read- or he’s happy with a gift card from the local book store. The first year he asked for a book store gift card, I wasn’t keen on the idea. I felt like that was not much of a unique gift. He explained to me that having a gift card gave him a certain sense of freedom to go crazy in the book store and purchase books he might not buy on his own.
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You’ve been there. You’ve stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to read a scary novel. You want to put it down, but you just can’t; it holds you in a cold sweaty grip that just won’t loosen. Halloween is almost here and we would like you to tell us about the books that creeped you out and kept you awake at night. What story lingers in your consciousness like an unpleasant dream?
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Recently, IW’s Samantha had an interview with Margaret Hastings-James, the author of the fun and romantic “Star Crossed.” We have decided to make this our next selection of the IW book club and hope you will join us in reading this entertaining and adventurous book!
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Do you ever re-read a favorite book? I personally have never re-read a book. I hardly have time to keep up with reading the books that I purchased with good intentions of reading over my summer break.
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