Nymeth is celebrating her first blog-iversary by giving away no less than five books! She has selected the following books because she loves them and wants to introduce her fellow readers to them: One for sorrow – by Christopher Barzak Tideland by Mitch Cullen I was a rat! by Phillip Pulman The watermelon king by Daniel Wallace Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Garman If you would like to win a copy of one of these books head on...

Hello fellow saloners – I wasn’t sure I’d actually be able to post today – I updated my websites last night to Wordpress 2.5 and managed to break them… so today, instead of working through my to do list, catching up with saloners, and reading my latest book I’ve spent about 7 hours trying to fix things… and to top it all off the clocks went forward today so I’ve lost an hour of my precious...

Good Harbor – Buy this book Rating 4 stars – an ejoyable read Description from Amazon From the bestselling author of THE RED TENT come a contemporary novel that explores the burden of secrets, the weight of grief and the healing power of female friendship When Kathleen meets Joyce, each woman has come to a turning point in her life. Kathleen, whose sister died of breast cancer fifteen years earlier, has just been diagnosed...

Secrets of a Family Album – Buy this book Rating 5 stars – a book so comfortable you’ll want to read it more than once Description – from Amazon Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe – photographer, journalist and wit – who took LSD when she was forty and never lived up to her...

Iliana posted a comment that perhaps we should all wear buttons to show that we are Reading Challenge Addicts – so I thought I’d make one to wear with pride here on my site. Feel free to add it to yours if you too are proud to be an addict ;0) Thanks to austinevan for the book stack image that is used in the background of the button Tags:...