Posted in audiobook, book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged audiobook, banned books, fiction, harper lee, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, pulitzer prize, sissy spacek, to kill a mockingbird on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Fiction, Published 1960
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – 1961
Read Sept-Oct 2008
5/5
From the Cover:
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South — and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird [...]
Posted in audiobook, book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged audible, audiobook, fiction, Neil Gaiman, R.I.P. III Reading Challenge, The Graveyard Book, YA fiction on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction, Published 2008
Audible, Oct 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the [...]
Posted in audiobook, totd, tagged audiobook, audible on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As the end of the month approaches, I need to use several of my audible credits. Any suggestions? What is your favorite audiobook?
Posted in audiobook, books, reviews, tagged audible, audiobook, confessions of a jane austen addict, jane austen, laura viera rigler on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Laura Viera Rigler, Published 2007
Audible.com – March 2008
3/5
General Overview:
In this Jane Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern L.A. girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen’s time.
Why did you choose this book?
It was on sale, duh! =) My ratings for audiobooks and books I [...]
Posted in audiobook, tagged audiobook, historical fiction, lisa see, snow flower and the secret fan on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Set in 19th century China, the book begins with the vivid retelling of Lily’s experience of her foot-binding, which began at age 7. By this time she is already matched with her laotong or “old same,” Snow Flower. A laotong status is such a privilege because girls [...]
