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Social Justice Challenge
The 2010 Social Justice Challenge is more than a reading challenge. As Amy said in the challenge’s introductory post: “Reading opens new worlds to us and can sometimes expose the injustice in our own....
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Mad for Maisie
I’m still pondering all my reading challenge options, trying to craft the perfect reading year for 2011 and not overwhelm myself. But this one, I had to at least try. It’s a Maisie Dobbs read-along!...
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Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman, book 1 of the Tess Monaghan Mysteries series (William Morrow, 1997), 336 pages Summary Tess Monaghan is lost in a wasteland, after losing the only job she ever loved,...
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Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear, book 4 in the Maisie Dobbs series (Henry Holt, 2006), 336 pages Summary In January 1931, journalist (and fellow Girton alum) Georgina Bassington-Hope comes...
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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (1985), 336 pages per Amazon, but my copy ends on page 226 Summary Ender was conceived because the ruling authority thought he just might have the right...
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Lilith by George MacDonald
Once upon a time, several years ago, when Amy and I made lists of books for ourselves and each other to read, there was one joint read on that list. Finally, at the end of 2012, we read it! That book?...
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A Sherlock challenge
I’ve been wanting to read some Sherlock Holmes, especially with the recent spate of great screen adaptations (BBC’s Sherlock, I’m looking at you!), and Mari’s challenge is just the impetus I need. I...
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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For Mari’s Sherlock Holmes reading challenge, I’ve read the first two books (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of course) so far. I honestly can’t remember if I’ve read any Sherlock Holmes books before. I...
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Catching up on Sherlock reading
Long time no posts here, eh? I know, I know. I’ve been reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books this year, spurred on by Mari. I posted about the first two books I read for the challenge...
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