Tag: books
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On a Roll with My 2024 Reading!
I’ve finished more books in the first two months of this year than all of last year! To be fair, I’ve incorporated some audiobooks, which are consumed much more quickly, and have mostly been used as my method to finish the books I’ve struggled to get through the past couple of years. Still, when I…
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Maria Romasco-Moore – Some Kind of Animal
When I read the blurb for this book while standing in the empty aisle of a Dollar Tree, I thought it would have a sci-fi quality to it. Mentions of a mother being “wild,” a sister who “lives in the woods” and eats rabbits raw, meeting with the sister at night to “run, fearlessly,” the…
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Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park and The Lost World (My First Audiobook)
You know, as much as I love the Jurassic Park movies, I’d never read the books [gasp!]. Not until the Jurassic Park audiobook was suggested buy one of the guys in my small group’s book chat—he listens to it every year. Of course, I’ve never been into audiobooks, so I drove down to my local…
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Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
I did it, yall! I finally finished this book! I started reading it again at the beginning of the month (only before bed), and it really only took a few days to finish the second half of the book. So, what was the freakin’ book about, anyway? I’m going to tell you all of it…
Christine Gabrièlle 