Lissa Reads...

Listening -- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 6 hours Artemis Fowl" The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer 6 hours Reading for book group -- A T...

Ditched - galley on nook Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 569 pages How Green was my valley by Richard Llewllen 497 pages Best Staged...

Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 355 pages This Girl is Different by J J Johnson - read a galley on the nook, 316 pages Uncommon Criminals...

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 231 pages Bellwether by Connie Willis 6.5 hours Plugged by Eoin Colfer 277 pages maybe some other stuff...

I am assuming I won't magically get to read much more before Thursday... best to do the math while I can... In the past year, (that I ma...

I recently read Walden by Henry David Thoreau, which was first published in 1854. My first reaction was that it was all well and good for t...

For book group, of course. (because when else do i prioritize reading?) Pioneer women by Joanna Stratton. Lovely lovely book. Made me miss b...

After buying the book and the ebook, I listened to the audiobook Blackout by Connie Willis 19 hours (and then bought the mp3 audiobook). Mos...

Save As Draft by Cavanaugh Lee Girl meets boy online. Girl makes out with best guy friend. Girl has amazing first date with boy. Girl must ...

I paid a lot of late fees this maternity leave. In fact, I've been back at work a month, and I've paid more late fees since then. An...

cranford by elizabeth gaskell -- the running joke at book group (which julie led - thank you!) was that I only read chapter one, but I read ...

Welcome to Twitter! Let the boy-stalking (ahem, following!) begin." So begins this novel told entirely in e-mails, blogs and tweets be...

I read sizzling sixteen by Janet Evanovich I'm not proud. I don't have anything else to say about it. 307 pages.

I read Main Street by Sinclair Lewis for book group in July. I was surprisingly irritated by the main character, a librarian who marries a d...

I listened to "Fly on the Wall" by e. lockhart read by Caitlin Greer while doing busywork at my desk the last two weeks at work. F...

When the latest book in a beloved series is released, I rush to read it, to find out the latest news and adventures from familiar characters...

A classic you may have missed: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - I re-read for book group this month. 436 pages "The only freedom we really h...

Secrets of my suburban Life by Lauren Baratz-Logsted 225 pages Ren lived her whole life in New York City with her two famous author parents,...

Geek High and the sequel Geek Abroad (243 pages) by Piper Banks Totally cute teen romances, should be read in order for max effect!

Death comes for the archbishop by Willa Cather 345 pages (although I read a Barnes and Noble ebook version on my phone). Geek High by Piper ...

The unwritten rule by Elizabeth Scott of course, if you don't just read a paperback teen romance, something everything that happens in t...

It's that time again (hence the many fill-in posts today trying to get caught up) when I celebrate another year of reading (measured fro...

The new Jennifer Crusie Bob Mayer book WILD RIDE -- I was so looking forward to it -- they have written two action adventure romances toget...

Another older one I forgot to post here. As a child of the suburbs in the 1980's, I was raised on canned soup and canned vegetables, box...

Another older one I forgot to post here. As a child of the suburbs in the 1980's, I was raised on canned soup and canned vegetables, box...

I listened to the audiobook - maybe I was too embarrassed that I am starting to enjoy this series to actually post about it. I didn't re...

Found another one I missed -- not sure I have the energy to actually compare my library reviews to my personal site but it is becoming clear...

I read this in February but just realized I never posted about it here. -- This is my review from the library's website. 390 pages. Shad...

Wedding Season by Katie Fforde For a wedding planner, Sarah is awfully cynical. In fact, she doesn't even really believe in love and mar...

The new Connie Willis novel finally arrived. After I paid full price plus shipping for the hardcover, I quickly realized I was never going t...

She lives in a small, unsuccessful and run-down hotel in New York City with her family. At fifteen, she lives in the shadow of all three of ...

I read Steinbeck's Travels with Charley for book group today and I REALLY enjoyed it. I think this is one that I would like to reread a...

I recently finished Prom Crashers(233 pages) and Drive Me Crazy(210 pages) both by Erin Downing She is one of the better writers for the Sim...

This novel is set in a near future world much like our own, where bees have suddenly abandoned their hives and gone extinct and many plants ...

I read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood for book group this week. Notoriously, this is the book I read at about 14, and this is wh...

Getting Lucky (in cards, in life, and in love) by Micol Ostow 240 pages Something Borrowed (like your best friends boyfriend as a wedding da...

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler I thought this would be a cute romance novel and instead it was about a girl who gets her heart broken by ...

A few audiobooks got me through my holiday baking extravaganza. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett from my facebook: "Noir is not my...

Party Games by Whitney Lyles 284 pages South Beach Sizzle by Weyn and Gonzalez 250 pages Dancing Queen by Erin Downing 245 pages

The Ex Games by Jennifer Echols 302 pages In the Stars by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon 288 pages Post nanowrimo I'm feeding my YA pape...

As I have for the past 6 years, I wrote my 7th National Novel Writing Month book this November. The 6 week gap in updates is because working...

I read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornvy when I should have been reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. It was quite the reading weekend (ove...