About a year ago I signed up for my first ever bookish challenge, via Ellie at Musings of a Bookshop Girl. The idea was to diversify one’s reading prospects. It really pushed me to read more, after I finally picked up on reading. And, strangely, I was happier this year. My grades improved. I started goingContinue reading “Wrap-it-up: The 2012 Mixing It Up Challenge”
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Book Review: The Last Lecture
This year I rather bravely attempted a bookish challenge, consisting of reading many different genres. For the Philosophy category I read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. For those of you who want to point out that this book isn’t actually philosophy, besides being philosophical… I get that now. But it was filed under philosophy andContinue reading “Book Review: The Last Lecture”
Book Review: The Moon, Come to Earth
As the July free ebook from Chicago University Press, I read The Moon, Come to Earth for the Travel Category of the 2012 Mix-it-Up Challenge. Creative writer Philip Graham sets off on a year’s sojourn to Lisbon, Portugal, with his anthropologist-wife and his tween-daughter. This is not the first time he and his wife spendContinue reading “Book Review: The Moon, Come to Earth”
Book Review: Dracula
In an effort to rekindle (haha, I made a pun) my reading habits, I rather bravely signed up for a bookish challenge this year. For the Classics category I read Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Book Review: American Chick in Saudi Arabia
When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year stay turns into a life-changing adventure spanning over a decade. Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled women in Riyadh, where women are locked in luxurious homesContinue reading “Book Review: American Chick in Saudi Arabia”
Book Review: 1Q84
This year I rather bravely attempted a bookish challenge, consisting of reading many different genres. For the Modern Fiction category I read 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I’m not going to enjoy writing this review. Because, to be clear from the get-go, I did not enjoy this book. The 1108 pages (ebook version) went by painfully slowly.Continue reading “Book Review: 1Q84”
Book Review: Orchid
As a rule, I do not review non-medical books on this blog, unless it forms part of a Top Ten Tuesday. However, since my recent discovery of the myriad of book blogs, Goodreads and the ability to read while maintaining my schedule has led to me rather bravely attempting a bookish challenge, I have decidedContinue reading “Book Review: Orchid”
Book Review: Kitchen Confidential
As a rule, I do not review non-medical books on this blog, unless it forms part of a Top Ten Tuesday. However, since my recent discovery of the myriad of book blogs, Goodreads and the ability to read while maintaining my schedule has led to me rather bravely attempting a bookish challenge, I have decidedContinue reading “Book Review: Kitchen Confidential”
Book Review: The Emperor of All Maladies
In 2012 I participate for the first time in a bookish challenge. Click here to see the different catagories. For the History category I read The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Emperor of all Maladies is a biography: not of a person or a company, but of a disease – one of the mostContinue reading “Book Review: The Emperor of All Maladies”
Book Review: Steve Jobs
As a rule, I do not review non-medical books on this blog, unless it forms part of a Top Ten Tuesday. However, since my recent discovery of the myriad of book blogs, Goodreads and the ability to read while maintaining my schedule has led to me rather bravely attempting a bookish challenge, I have decidedContinue reading “Book Review: Steve Jobs”
Whispers Unto the Aether 