Thankful (BBT)

Thankful (BBT)

It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S. of A. so … What authors and books are you most thankful for? Mildred A. Wirt-Benson, the author of the first 25-original Nancy Drew Yellowbacks, the very first mystery books I ever read. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle–for being a...
Borrowing (BBT)

Borrowing (BBT)

Who would you rather borrow from? Your library? Or a Friend? (Or don’t your friends trust you to return their books?) And, DO you return books you borrow?I’d rather borrow from the Library. I rarely ever borrow books from friends, mostly because I know they...
Skeletons! (BBT)

Skeletons! (BBT)

In honor of Halloween this weekend: What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin Mysteries lovingly stored behind...
Skeletons! (BBT)

Foreign (BBT)

Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any? For a moment, I was stumped, until I realized favorites like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen and Rudyard Kipling were from England. ^_^ Problem solved. For that reason,...
Skeletons! (BBT)

Rewrites! (BBT)

If you could rewrite the ending of any book, which book would it be? And how would you change it? Ah, that’s easy. Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski. This is one of the first books that I ever read, that I absolutely could not stand the ending. It was too...