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Summer Reading 2018

June 5, 2018 by Leanne Sowul 6 Comments

It’s summer reading season! I started working on my summer reading list a few weeks ago, and it’s… ambitious. Maybe impossible. I have 37 books on there, and I’ve only finished one so far. (Can September count as summer, too? I might be working on this list all through the fall.) There are just SO […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fiction, lighter fiction, mystery, nonfiction, reading, summer reading, thriller

100 Books In 2017: Top 10 Lists

December 15, 2017 by Leanne Sowul 4 Comments

In last Friday’s post, I described how I was able to read 100 books in a year despite a busy schedule. Today I’m going to share the top 10 books I read in each category, plus a few I do not recommend! For the full list of what I read this year, here’s a link to my […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: memoir, mystery, nonfiction, novel, romance, thriller, top 10

Friday Book Review: Gone Girl

October 25, 2013 by Leanne Sowul 3 Comments

I don’t usually gravitate toward thrillers, but a couple of weeks ago I was looking for a book that would provide me with a bit of escapism, and a friend recommended Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: characters, ending, escape, gillian flynn, gone girl, movie, mystery, novel, thriller

Vacation Book List

June 29, 2012 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

I realized today that I haven’t officially recognized the start of summer vacation on the blog yet. Hooray! Usually, summer for me means travel time. Sometimes it’s a few short trips, sometimes it’s something bigger (like the cruise in Alaska last summer). Additionally, for the past 7 years, the end of August has always meant […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: beach, chick lit, cruise, elin hilderbrand, fiction, history, jane green, jen lancaster, kristin hannah, literature, mary kay andrews, novel, reading list, sociology, sophie kinsella, thriller, travel, vacation

John Grisham’s Confession

October 1, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 5 Comments

For the first time since the creation of this blog, I’ve failed to reach my goal of posting three times a week, and I apologize. I’ve had a tough time writing this week, so my other projects took more time and creative energy than usual, and I didn’t feel any motivation to blog. I’ll do […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fiction, legal, novel, research, thriller

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