My Sparkling Misfortune by Laura Lond | Book Review
My Sparkling Misfortune by Laura Lond Series: The Lakeland Knight Books #1 Genres: Children, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon In My Sparkling Misfortune, Lord Arkus of Blackriver Castle readily admits that he is a villain and sees no reason why it should stop him from being the protagonist of this book. After all, Prince Kellemar, an aspiring hero, has defeated him in a rather questionable way. Bent on revenge, Arkus attempts to capture a powerful evil spirit who would make him nearly invincible, but a last-minute mistake leaves him with…
Make Time To Read Great Books
More than anything else, I love to read and write. So if I could choose any place to have a time out from life, it would be a bookstore or library. Make The Time To Read Great Books I love going to bookstores, drinking in the cafe and eating delicious desserts, and spending time reading magazines. I love to carry a small notebook and pen in my purse and sit in the bookstore, writing essays, short stories, and blog posts. I love to write with pen and paper. Collecting small notebooks is fun! I also love to wander the aisles of books in the bookstore and look for new books…
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001) | Book Review
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2002 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Walmart sales clerk. Nickel and Dimed reveal low-rent America in all its…
Books and Authors I Hate
Books And Authors I Hate Yes! At least for now. Here are some “classic” works of literature that I just don’t like. So sue me. Books and authors I hate? Perhaps I will feel differently in a few years. Further Reading Books and Authors I Haven’t Read . . . Yet Also this: Talking about books I don’t like – Modern Mrs. Darcy Thank you for reading The Literary Lioness!
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry (2008) | Book Review
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Genres: Memoir Original Publication Date: 2008 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Larry McMurtry wrote books in many genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as The Last Picture Show to the reinvention of the “Western” on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He writes about himself as a boy growing up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one of America’s most prominent screenwriters. He Is An Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Larry McMurtry is the author…
