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Africa Reading Challenge
Happy experiences lay ahead, fellow audacious readers! Yesterday Kinna announced the kick-off of the much-anticipated Africa Reading Challenge. The simple rule is that all participants must read at...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
I know it’s early days, but I’ve had a good first month of 2012 reading resolutions. I’ve started War and Peace (which I’m surprisingly really enjoying), and read my first ever Shakespeare play. Risa...
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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City has to be one of the most reviewed non-fiction books in the book blogosphere. I can see why – it reads like a novel. So much so that I hear Leonardo DiCaprio bought the...
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Tea with Mr. Rochester by Francis Towers
I’m making Sleepless Reader history: my first joint-review-cum-chat! Shannon from Giraffe Days and I noticed we both had Tea With Mr. Rochester by Francis Towers in our TBRs, so we decided to read it...
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
(credits: Kate Beaton at Hark, a Vagrant!) How exactly do you “review” Macbeth? Especially if it’s only the second Shakespeare play you’ve ever read? Surely every original thought about it must have...
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Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch, Read-Along (part 1/5)
“I suspect that drink has made you impulsive.” “Drink makes me feel funny; the gods made me impulsive.” Just like I knew that it was just a matter of time before The Song of Ice and Fire and The...
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Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch, Read-Along (part 3/5)
Third week of the Red Seas Under Red Skies Read-along. Photo credits - Secret Kingdom (part of my Pinterest board on boats). 1. Locke and Jean’s ability to find themselves at the center of a serious...
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The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde (Read-along)
Act I of The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde Read-Along, organize by Wallace. It’s not often that my underlining pen is used this often. From the first few moments this play has been a...
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
So I read War and Peace. It really felt like an accomplishment. I think I’ve read more complex books and if not longer, not much shorter, but there seems to be a whole rite of passage associated with...
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Announcing Advent with Atwood
Do you remember Advent with Austen? We (myself, Ana, Iris and our master of ceremonies Yvann) had so much fun organizing it, that we decided to do it again this year with Margaret Atwood. Even the...
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