Twilight Fans are you paying attention?  Are you? Stephanie Meyer has published a short story called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and you can read it NOW!  for FREE!!!!  You can read it on this site for free from June 7th to July 5th.  You can only read it there and you cannot [...]

Growing up I was a very shy and awkward child so I used to bury myself in books.  One series which saved me was The Babysitters Club.  I had/have every single book published probably until I became a little too old to relate to them.   But they are now in storage waiting to be [...]

A very talented and dear friend of mine si writing a novel  and is now attempting to get it published.  I have yet to read any part of her book but I know her and she does absolutely nothing unless she puts everything into it.  Therefore I know it will be great.  She is currently [...]

As we all know I am a little bit of a Tegan and Sara fan.  And while I try not to run you over with posts about them I had to share this little tidbit because it combines my two favorite things; Tegan and Sara and reading.  As many fans know both are avid readers [...]

I have very particular and discriminating taste when it comes to books. I like humor. If you’re going to show me a book about a historical person, I’d rather see the movie. But humor….damn, I love when a writer can use words to make you feel the way they felt at the time in their [...]

While at home on break I had the opportunity to read a few books.  The first of which was the new Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol.  I was pretty excited to have a new Robert Langdon story to read and finished it within a day.  Overall the novel was enjoyable and definitely a quick read [...]

Conde Nast, is a pioneer company in the magazine industry. This company “is committed to journalistic integrity, influential reporting and superior design. Each of our magazines features renowned editors, writers and photographers…” and is the parent of nearly 2 dozen of some of ( I bet ) your favorite magazines including; Vogue, W, Style, Allure, [...]

Lately I’ve had several friends start their own blogs and a few I find quite interesting so I thought I would shave them with you!
1. Missenscene –  The site is written/run by a former co-worker of mine, Carrie Kravetz.  Carrie, in herself, is a very interesting person and is one of those lucky people [...]

Starting today, August 3rd, Oprah.com members can download the bookLet The Great World Spin by Colum McCann.
The book is one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Books Of Summer and has gotten stellar reviews.  Hurry, though, the download is only available for 48 hours and ends on Wednesday, August 5 at 10:59pm EST.
Oprah did the same thing two [...]

The first few weeks here in Canada I had a bit of free time on my hands and no TV and no Internet so I spent much of my time reading.  Here are 3 of the books I read during that time.  Of the three I’d say two are worthy of reading but I’ll let [...]