booktumbling

Suggested by Jennysbooks: Something I’ve been thinking about lately: “What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately?” I am not a blurb lover. I have fallen for blurbs before and felt misled or downright lied too when I finished the book. Words/phrases in [...]

This question for this week concerns weeding – books of course: When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain? Or do [...]

This week’s question is: What is the saddest book you have read recently? I do not have to think about this one.  My saddest read was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I am still recovering from this book. I finished it a couple of weeks ago and am still trying to think of how I [...]

This week’s question is “What is the most informative book you’ve read recently?”  I am currently reading Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement by Irene Spencer which is her first-hand account of her brother-in-law’s reign of terror as the self-proclaimed prophet of the Mormon colony she lived in for many years.  [...]