by amiemccracken | Jul 24, 2011 | books, reading
Hello to the people who don’t live near me! A friend and I are starting a book club. I wanted to include others who aren’t in the immediate vicinity. So I will post what book we’re reading and when we’re getting together. If you would like to...
by amiemccracken | Jul 14, 2011 | reading
It’s been ten years since the first Harry Potter movie came out. Now they are finished. The second part of the seventh movie was certainly epic. The best part has been watching this phenomenon turn into something that we will certainly share with our children....
by amiemccracken | Jul 11, 2011 | reading
I like to learn. So I recently read a biography on Buddha by Karen Armstrong. It had snippets about actual Buddhism (which I’ve had on my list of things to learn) but was mostly about the last Buddha.Let me make it clear that I am not Buddhist, but I have always...
by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2011 | book review, reading
If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a young adult novel about a seventeen-year-old girl, Mia, who is having an out-of-body experience. She is in a car crash with her family and ends up in a coma but is observing everything as if she is a ghost alongside her body. The book...
by amiemccracken | Jun 9, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
Congratulations to Andrea for winning the Amazon gift certificate to celebrate 200 followers! Thanks to those who entered.Another installment of books I read in 2010. We’re getting down to the bottom of the pile. But still quite a few to go! I rate on a scale of...
by amiemccracken | Apr 3, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
Another installment of what I read in 2010. I rate on a scale of 1-5.The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark – 2I was really hoping for more from this book. It takes an intriguing idea (an 18th-century apothecary obsessed with deformities) and just bored me. There...
