February Books of the Month

March 20, 2020 by Christina

February feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? I know it was a busy month for me because my calendar is packed with book club meetings, dinner plans with friends, and an introduction to quilting class on Sundays. Yet, from the vantage point of mid-March, it feels unimaginably footloose and fancy free. What did I do when I could go and do whatever I wanted? Well, what I did was read an astonishing 17 books during this month thanks in […]

Categories: 2020 Reads, Amish, Animals, Audiobook, Awards and Prizes, Book Club, Canada, Caribbean, Classics, Classics Club, Crime, Europe, Feminism, Fiction, Food, Indigenious Peoples, Juvenile, LGBTQA+, Mountain West, Nonfiction, North America, Persephone Books, ReadDiverse, Religion, Travel, United Kingdom, United States, Women's Prize • Tags: A. J. Finn, Adam Darlin, Audre Lorde, Becky Ohlsen, Brendan Sainsbury, Catherine Bodry, Chris Chalk, Christopher Ketcham, Coco Morante, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edwidge Danticat, Jesmyn Ward, Jia Tolentino, John Lee, Jon Krakauer, Kamila Shamsie, Kevin Harrison Jr, L. M. Montgomery, Linda Castillo, Marghanita Laski, Richard Thomas, Rutina Wesley, Shelly Frasier, Steven Higashide, Susan O'Malley, Sy Montgomery

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

October 28, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Shelly Frasier. Tantor Media, 2008. Originally published 1865. 2 hours, 47 minutes. Library copy. Bored as her sister reads a book without pictures, Alice spies a white rabbit scurrying across the meadow carrying a pocket watch and exclaiming that he is going to be late. Intrigued by this unusual sight, Alice follows the white rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds an unusual land filled with unusual people where she often changes size unexpectedly. At […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Audiobook, Classics, Classics Club, Europe, Fiction, Juvenile, United Kingdom • Tags: Lewis Carroll, Shelly Frasier