I just began a non-fiction book that is a bunch of essays that is going to try to convince me that there is life after death, and that belief has nothing to do with faith. It's part of my 101 in 1001 where I threw some dice to choose a dewy-decimal book for me, and the dice chose this one. I was a little put off by the introduction wherein in ( Read more... )

4. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ( Read more... )

3. Dead As a Doornail by Charlaine Harris ( Read more... )

2. Dead To the World by Charlaine Harris ( Read more... )

I blame all that water last year for the lack of reading more...

Poll Books of 2010

28. December 31, 2010 -- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris ( Read more... )

27. December 14, 2010 -- Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
So I heard Gaiman the other day on Talk of the Nation mention this as his first American comic. We have it on the shelf in graphic novel form, so I decided to read it today. First, I must wow over McKean's graphics. The photographic realism he produces makes it more like watching ( Read more... )

26. December 14, 2010 -- Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury ( Read more... )

25. December 1, 2010 -- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ( Read more... )

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books) who've influenced you and/or that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes ( Read more... )