Encouraging Bibliophilia

Wise Children – Angela Carter

All singing, all dancing, all complicated family histories. Number of ratings on Goodreads: 4,000 Where did I find it and why did I read it? I found this book while wandering the library. I will admit that with the increased demands of new parenthood have resulted in me spending time looking for thin books that can be read quickly. I am lucky that such a good book was also short. I had one of…

The Last Bookaneer – Matthew Pearl

Literary piracy in the South Pacific. Number of ratings on Goodreads: 800 Where did I find it and why did I read it? This was another audio book that I found searching through the Overdrive App. The gift that keeps on giving these days. This is a recently published book (May 2015) so I am guessing that it hasn’t been read by that many people purely because it is new. That is genuinely the only…

The Museum of Literary Souls – John Connolly

A bibliophile follows a woman with a red handbag down the rabbit hole.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 464

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

This falls into the books about libraries and book stores phase that I was in. I don’t remember exactly how I found it but the combination of theme and having already read a book by the author (which was great and is recommended here), I am going…

Utopia – Thomas More

Paradise described.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 31,326

Challenge 2015: A book that is over 100 years old

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

I have been meaning to read this book forever and so it fitting the criteria for my challenge (being that it is 499 years old). Despite this book being considerably well read for this blog, I have decided to include it because I am guessing that…

The Napoleon of Crime – Ben Macintyre

The story of a brilliant and completely loveable Victorian criminal.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 540

Challenge 2015: A nonfiction book

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

This book has a slightly more interesting reason for how I found it and why I chose it! Great departure from the ramblings of me not remembering how and why I acquired it. Yay!

So I went on a tour of Highgate…

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLB4kisMV8)

Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions – Nicole Markotić

The (fictionalized) life and times of Alexander Graham Bell.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 7 (Yes actually only seven at the time of writing this. And I am one of them.)

Challenge 2015: A book that takes place in your hometown

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Google. I grew up in a small city in Ontario and I figured (correctly) that NOTHING would be set in my hometown. So I did a…

Getting Rid of Matthew – Jane Fallon

The other woman decides that she is sick of the man… just as he decides to leave his wife for her.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 2,869

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Normally I avoid chick-lit (and books that look like they might be chick-lit) like they are the plague. I just have no interest in wasting my energies on sexist portrayals of women desperate to find a man to make them…

Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood

Life, death, mental illness, complicated families and the importance of memories.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 6,325

Challenge 2015: A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Oh Margaret Atwood, I will probably read anything that you write. Luckily you have yet to disappoint me, so I can continue reading your work without fear.

I am…