Books and Chocolate

Time for my end of the year roundup!  I've adapted this meme from Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner , via Amanda over at Ramblings ...

Sorry for the double posting, but I accidentally clicked on publish instead of save as a draft.  Oh well. I didn't mean to sign up...

I'm a complete pushover for a good challenge, especially when it involves reading books I already own.  The other day I found another...

I was very lucky -- my Persephone Secret Santa gift arrived more than two weeks ago!  This is what's been waiting patiently to be opened...

It's actually been several weeks since I finished this book.  I had just been promoted to my new job, so I had a week of orientation, ...

I've been seeing a lot of challenges for 2012 on the blogosphere lately, and I can't resist joining at least one.  I have sooo ...

Yesterday I finished The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, and honestly, I'm having a hard time finding anything to say about it. ...

So, I'm loving my new job, but boy, working 40 hours a week does sort of interfere with your free time! And of course I'm sitting in...

When the Classics Circuit featured Georgette Heyer in the author spotlight back in 2010, I pooh-poohed the Regency romances and chose a my...

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” -- Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbe...