All Books Considered

Number of Books Read Sorry that I was such an awful blog friend in October.  Work was crazy and it's amazing I even posted at all. I am also surprised I read 22 books (including three re-reads but not including three DNFs)!  Re-Reads!                 Highest rating Not including re-reads, these were all 4 STARs!! Lowest rating My DNF streak continues                    Best read of the month Book which surprised me the most I had heard such good things about this but it was not for me! Fictional crush of the month None! Three books I’m looking forward t...

  "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that you are eagerly anticipating. Today, I am waiting on:   Moonglow  by Michael Chabon From Goodreads : In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon.  Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is ...