Book Haul
I’ve acquired a number of books this month (too many!). My haul from last weekend’s trip to The Last Bookstore and The Iliad Bookshop yielded these gems: Unicorn Highway by David Lee Jones Twisted River by Siobhan MacDonald The Crack in…
I’ve acquired a number of books this month (too many!). My haul from last weekend’s trip to The Last Bookstore and The Iliad Bookshop yielded these gems: Unicorn Highway by David Lee Jones Twisted River by Siobhan MacDonald The Crack in…
The Sun is Also a Star just wasn’t really my cup of tea. It’s certainly well-written, and it’s probably a great book for fans of the Young Adult/Romance genre. The ways in which the character’s lives all intertwine is interesting, and we…
After visiting The Last Bookstore, I stopped by The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood yesterday. While not as impressive as The Last Bookstore (what is?), The Iliad Bookshop is a very nice and well-maintained used book store. They specialize in Literature…
I went to The Last Bookstore today, located in Downtown Los Angeles. This store has everything. They sell both new and used books, as well as records. In addition to the Labyrinth of Books, the upstairs also houses a variety of work…
Way back when I started library school, I was completely unfamiliar with the concept of weeding a collection. It seemed unnatural and wrong to get rid of books. Back in my days as a community college student, I’d never understood the free…
This is the first of book I’ve read by Valenti, and, as a reader who enjoys both memoirs and feminist literature, it was a worthwhile read. We’re given a glimpse into the author’s life, one filled at many points with…
It’s been a few weeks since I read this book, so I hope I can do it justice in this review. I was excited to read this book and picked it up as an extra in my Book of the…
I’ve always been a fan of Sherlock Holmes, the character (and more recently the show Sherlock, which I am sadly behind on.) To be honest, though, I have never actually read any of the books, although I’ve meant to. I…