by amiemccracken | Oct 6, 2011 | book review, reading
The Bloody ChamberAngela CarterShort story/novelette I got this book as a recommendation for fairy tale retellings in a darker tone. So far I am absolutely in love.Three wives dead, one never found in a boating accident and the story is called “The Bloody...
by amiemccracken | Sep 29, 2011 | book review, reading
Between Shades of Gray if a book about Lithuanian refugees deported to Siberian work camps by the Soviets during World War II. The book is a side of a story that everyone thinks they have heard, but it’s not. These work camps were different. They continued on...
by amiemccracken | Sep 22, 2011 | book review, reading
I put off reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath first because everyone in college had read it and it just seemed cliche. Then I put it off because I was worried it would scare me with all the craziness inside. It’s not scary, but perhaps in the mundane and normal...
by amiemccracken | Sep 10, 2011 | book review
We had sooooo much fun at the book club party. We all dressed up and had macaroons and martinis. It was truly swell. I’ll let the pictures tell the story.Martinis! Macaroons and truffles! The whole group. (It’s a wig, but I like it!)We had a lot to talk...
by amiemccracken | Aug 28, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
I’ve really enjoyed my Kindle, especially because I live in Germany where the supply of English books is limited. I used to go to the library once or even twice a week back in Colorado. So not having access to that many books was hard for me.The Kindle e-ink...
by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2011 | book review, reading
If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a young adult novel about a seventeen-year-old girl, Mia, who is having an out-of-body experience. She is in a car crash with her family and ends up in a coma but is observing everything as if she is a ghost alongside her body. The book...
