Archive for June, 2010

First, I’d like to say hello again. It’s nice to be back. I am post-school, post-craziness and am happy to be reading again. And even reading things I want to read… not books like Stats to Go, Financing Sport and Applied Strategic Planning. Hopefully this is just the first of many of this summer’s fun […]


So, yeah, I read this.  Just the first one, not all four in a sitting like Wendy. 🙂  Unfortunately, I am probably compelled enough to read the second one.  It is a really quick and easy read, hence the attraction.  The characters themselves are pretty predictable and the love story slightly gushy for my tastes, […]


Being that I love to read it and it is summer (my time off since I’m a teacher), I have been desperately looking for a new book to read. (I have successfully reread several books in my time off so far.) I was at a friend’s house the other day and decided to raid her […]


I got this book before I really knew how popular it apparently is.  It was written by a Swedish journalist (with the setting in Sweden with all these places I’ve never heard of and names that are difficult to pronounce) who wrote a whole trilogy, then died of a heart attack in 2004 before they […]


After having read this book a second time, it is still definitely in the running for one of my favorite books of all time.  It has slower parts, but as a whole it is almost like reading poetry.  It was originally written in Spanish and is one of the reasons I want to learn Spanish- […]