Carol's Notebook

I've never done a 6 Degrees of Separation post, but it sounds like fun. We could start with any of our faves, but I'm going to go ahead and use Annabel's suggestion of The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. I have not read it, but leaving the whole field of "favorites" just made it too hard to pick a starting point. Today's link-up is at Estella's Revenge until Annabel's link goes live on the 6th.       The main character in The Narrow Road spends time as a prisoner of war, as does Taniel in The Crimson Campaign, one of my favorites of the year. While Taniel is fighting on the front line, his father is journeying behind enemy lines, trying to get home. In A Long Way Home, Peter is also taking a journey, though of a different sort. He's almost trying to find himself so that he can return to his wife a better person. I haven't read it, but Gilead...

Today’s topic for “A Month of Favorites” is obviously all about the covers. “A Month of Favorites” is hosted by Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge. Today's link-up is over at Traveling with T. I'm actually not much of a cover person. Rarely will I actually read a book because I love the cover. If I had to choose my favorite covers in general my list would be entirely different, but for these 10, I'm only looking at books I actually read in the past year, and they're in no particular order.    1. Caught Dead by Andrew Lanh 2. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 3. The Long Way Home by Louise Penny    4. Delicious! by Ruth Reichl 5. Invisible City by Julia Dahl 6. The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson   7. The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi 8. Blame it on the Mistletoe by Nicole Michaels   9. The Lazarus Curse by Tessa Harris 10. The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan What covers make your...

  Today’s topic for “A Month of Favorites” is choose-your-own-theme for 5 favorites. “A Month of Favorites” is hosted by Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge. Check out Estella's Revenge for today’s link-up. Five Favorite Fairy Tale-ish Books 1. The Flying Witch by Jane Yolen - an original tale based on the Baba Yaga legends. I especially liked the happy ending. 2. The Little Moose Who Couldn't Go To Sleep by Willy Claflin - a great read-aloud moose tale told by a moose 3. That's What Leprechaun's Do by Eve Bunting - not laugh-out loud funny, but entertaining. Leprechauns can certainly be mischievous. 4. Wickedly Magical by Deborah Blake - a new take on the Baba Yaga legend. Not a perfect book, but a good opening to a series. 5. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum - it's a classic, and I was surprised by how much it differed from the movies....