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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Happy Monday!
And thank you to all of our readers for making June our busiest month ever on Postcards from Purgatory! We appreciate each and every one of you. To those of you who found us looking for summaries of Diana Gabaldon’s … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Beginning of Robinson Crusoe (by Bethany)
I have been pitifully slow getting started with Robinson Crusoe. I’ve been pitifully slow getting through all of my reading lately, really. Even Written in My Own Heart’s Blood – which is long, yes, but not difficult – is going … Continue reading
In which Jill reviews Jen Lancaster’s Here I Go Again and cops to another guilty reading pleasure
I have a general ban on Chick Lit in my house—any novel that features a twenty or thirty-something female lead who is struggling with career, love, and/or family woes in the 21st century and also enjoys referring to designer clothing … Continue reading
Review of Matt Bell’s In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
I started this book while on my camping trip last week. Having minimal distractions helped me make fast progress—finished it in five days—but I do think that it would have been helpful to have access to the internet in the … Continue reading
Yarn Along
I’ve barely been knitting at all lately. I’ve generally been busy with work and social occasions and writing and spending time with a certain addictively entertaining crew of time-traveling Scottish people. On Saturday, though, I sat down and cast on … Continue reading
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Final Thoughts on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
I finished The Book Thief on the first full day of my vacation this past Friday. It was a new and exciting experience for me: my first time “off the grid” in almost two years. Of course, I’ve been away … Continue reading
Deborah Harkness: A PSA (by Bethany)
I had never heard of Deborah Harkness until I saw a copy of A Discovery of Witches in the book aisle at Target. It was blue and sparkly, and there was that word: Witches. I lived in a small town … Continue reading
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Checking In on the 18th Century: Thoughts After Reading 37% of Diana Gabaldon’s Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (by Bethany)
So I’ve made some good progress in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, but I still have my share of complaints. First, though, I’ll tell you what I like about the book. The second section of the novel, the one … Continue reading
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