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A Quick Catch-up Post

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Beth Parks Aronson

Well, I’m reading a lot, but I’m not doing a very good job of filling you in on what I’m reading. Work is winning in the battle for my time. So this is what I’ve been doing, other than reading … Continue reading →

Posted in 1001 Books, 2014 TBR PIle Challenge, Booker, Mystery/Thriller | Tagged 1001 Books, Anne Perry, Antonio Tabucchi, Around the World in Books, audiobooks, England, Execution Dock, France, Germany, Goethe, Graham Greene, Ireland, Man Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood, Melanesia, Oryx and Crake, Pat Barker, Pereira Maintains, Portugal, Romanticism, The End of the Affair, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Story of Lucy Gault, Wiilam Trevor | Leave a comment

The Last Reads of 2013: Sierra Leone, Canada, Maine, Venezuela, Morocco (and Illinois and London)

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Beth Parks Aronson

I have decided to close out 2013 at this point, rather than read like a fiend to the end. For one thing it’s my anniversary, and holing up with books til midnight seems a little antisocial. Also, there isn’t a … Continue reading →

Posted in 1001 Books, Around the US 2013, Around the World 2013, Books, Orange, Pulitzer Prize | Tagged 1001 Books, Africa, Alphabonkers, Around the US in Books, Around the World in Books, Arthurian Legend, British Literature, Canada, Daniel Kehlmann, David Finch, Elizabeth Strout, England, George Orwell, Germany, Graham Greene, Heather O'Neill, Insurgent, Italo Calvino, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Lullabies for Little Criminals, maine, Measuring the World, Morocco, Olive Kitteridge, Orange Prize, Pulitzer Prize, South America, The Heart of the Matter, The Journal of Best Practices, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount, USA, Venezuela, Veronica Roth | Leave a comment

In Venice Amid Intrigue

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Beth Parks Aronson

Italy was not originally on my itinerary for the year, but I wanted to get one of my backlog of Anne Perry mysteries read when we went on vacation last week, before digging into something more serious. The action in … Continue reading →