High Summer Readathon Wrap-Up

I had a good time getting more reading done during the High Summer Readathon (hosted by Michelle at Seasons of Reading). Here’s how it turned out: My primary goal was to finish reading Sense and Sensibility for the Jane Austen Read All A-long, and I did that. (I had already read quite a bit of it,…

Review: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I am participating in the Jane Austen Read All A-long hosted by James Reads Books. It’s a readalong for all of Jane’s novels, one a month for the rest of the year. Until a year or two ago, I had never read any Jane Austen, but I always wondered what the fuss was all about,…

DMI2017, Week 29: “Mister Yummy” by Stephen King

This week’s story, brought to us by the Nine of Spades, comes once again from Stephen King’s newest (I think) collection of short stories, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. One of the things that makes this collection so interesting (besides, of course, the excellent stories themselves) is King’s short preface to each story, wherein he gives…

DMI2017, Week 28: “Pit Stop” by John Floyd

Another week, and the Seven of Clubs is keeping me in the pages of Mississippi Noir, but honestly I feel like Brer Rabbit in the briar patch with it, so I’m good. (Bonus points for catching the reference there.) And just for fun, here’s a different take on the obligatory playing card image for this week:…

High Summer Readathon Plans

As she does every year, Michelle at Seasons of Reading is hosting the High Summer Readathon beginning today and running for the next two weeks, culminating in a 48-hour Christmas in July readathon the last weekend of the overall readathon. Well, this sort of thing is completely irresistible to me, so of course I signed up. High…