Reading challenge 4: LibraryThing Author Challenge

I’m so happy Dawn at She Is Too Fond of Books is hosting the LibraryThing Author Challenge again! This is the fourth challenge I join this year. The challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2009, and Dawn asks that we commit to reading at least five books by LibraryThing Authors. I have several on my shelves from last year’s challenge that I still haven’t read, plus a few more I’ve acquired since:

• Midwife of the Blue Ridge by Christine Blevins
• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
• The Last Queen by C. W. Gortner
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Many Lies & Secrets Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
• Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
• Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas

There are others on my wish list that I’d like to read (if I manage to acquire them sometime this year):

• The Language of Light by Meg Waite Clayton
• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
  
• The Book of Bright Things by Sandra Kring
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

Check out my results for last year’s LT Author Challenge.
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Books read and reviewed for this challenge:
This list will be updated throughout the year.

1. Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas
2. Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
3. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

Friday Finds (November 28)

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all my American readers! What great books have you discovered this week? Share your Friday Finds at Should Be Reading.


I haven’t read any of Daphne du Maurier’s novels, but that doesn’t deter me from wanting to read Daphne by Justine Picardie, a novel about du Maurier (and Branwell Brontë) that sounds great! (I love novels about actual writers.) Read Teresa’s review on her blog, Shelf Love.



Once I’d read Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (read review), I checked for recommendations on LibraryThing and the first book on the list is The Book of Bright Things by Sandra Kring. Of course, I then went hunting for reviews and found a good ones at Lynne’s Little Corner of the World. Check out her review for yourself. This is the second time I’ve featured Sandra Kring in a Friday Finds post, so I think I must read her books soon!

Friday Finds (October 24)

What great books have you discovered this week? Share your Friday Finds at Should Be Reading.


It’s been another week of never quite catching up with the blog posts in my reader, but at least this week I managed to read a few reviews...


Jill at Breaking the Spine reviewed Goldengrove by Francine Prose. Prose has been on my radar for a while because she wrote Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for Those Who Love Books and Those Who Want to Write Them (who could resist that title?), but Jill’s review has inspired me to add this book to my wish list as well.




I had never heard of Sandra Kring before coming across S. Krishna’s review of Thank You for All Things at S. Krishna’s Books. Another one for my neverending wish list!