Happy Friday! This week has been very full here, and I can only imagine it has been even more so for everyone who started back to school. For today's First Line Friday, I'm featuring a book I recently finished and highly recommend: The Means that Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg. "A tangle of arms reaching toward... Continue Reading →
Welcome to an unique edition of First Line Friday! At least, there is a twist on it here on Reviews From the Stacks. Goodreads has dubbed this week as "Sci-fi and Fantasy Week," and while I am likely to agree with the suggestion that it is a bit excessive to have a week dedicated to... Continue Reading →
It's a WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The three W’s stand for the following questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? To participate, make a post or comment answering the three questions, link up to the host... Continue Reading →
It's been a while since I did a tag! I was tagged by Audra of Audra's Book Blabbing a few months ago (sometime in May, I think?) to do the Shame Book Tag. Thank you, Audra! I do not know where the tag originated, and there seem to be no formal rules. According to Audra,... Continue Reading →
Hello, Readers! Today I'm sharing a short review of a contemporary novella I recently read and absolutely love! Title: Dandelion Dust Author: Faith Potts Genre: YA Christian Contemporary Synopsis from Goodreads: Charity always had a dream. It was simple, really. Find a guy, fall in love, and get married. The day she met Ryder, Charity knew he was the... Continue Reading →
Yarn Along is a monthly link up hosted at Small Things. The point is to share our yarn-type projects (such as knitting, crochet, or similar) as well as the books we are reading. I love watching others’ projects develop, and of course I love hearing about the books people are reading, too! You can see everyone’s... Continue Reading →
Hi there Readers! Summer Reading officially wrapped up at my library on July 31st, but I don't expect the craziness to slow down for a while still. It has been a blast seeing so many people be "Wild About Reading!" Even if some of them did only participate because of the fine waivers (lol). The... Continue Reading →
Today's review is a little different from most. Since this book is something of a modern classic, there is already an ongoing conversation about it in critical circles. Properly engaging with this dialogue is beyond the scope of this blog post. To a large degree, rather than a review, this is a comparison of the... Continue Reading →
Hi all, and Happy Friday! It has been too long since I got three blog posts out in a week - and I can't promise it will continue to happen regularly in the close future - but this is worth a small celebration! Cue the confetti, or at least another cup of coffee! After finishing... Continue Reading →
