Three Amazing Things: Love, Friendship, Cats

January 14, 2015 by Erin

Title: Three Amazing Things About You Author: Jill Mansell (To be) published: January 15, 2015 Genre: Contemporary fiction, chick lit Rating: ★★★★☆ It’s not difficult to imagine where this novel is headed right from the start – the first few pages, labeled as happening “now,” briefly describe Hallie, a young woman with cystic fibrosis, as she prepares for an imminent lung transplant that will change her life. Immediately flash back to “before,” and the narrative alternates between Hallie’s pre-transplant story […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: chick lit, contemporary fiction, four star review, jill mansell

Top Five Tools to Kick Start Your New Year’s Resolution Reading

January 6, 2015 by Caitlin

The book-lovin’ world is currently abuzz with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s latest New Year’s Resolution, “Read a new book every other week,” and his “A Year of Books” group page.  While I disagree that he’s “this generation’s Oprah” (mostly because I don’t like to be told what my age’s anything is supposed to be), I know he’s definitely not alone in the “read more books” resolution category, and appreciate the idea of this whole online book club, as anything that […]

Categories: Best Of • Tags: Book Clubs, Mark Zuckerberg, New Year's Resolutions, Read More Books, Reading Recommendations, top 5

2014 in Review

January 2, 2015 by Ladies On The Shelf

It started with bingo. Literary bingo to be precise. Inspired by Random House’s 2014 New Years challenge, we each created literary bingo boards and promised to read and absorb the challenge and document the fun along the way. And Ladies On The Shelf sort of became something else, as we hoped it would. Here we’ve created an outlet to discuss our literary finds, bemoan the sins of the latest movie adaptation, and celebrate our favorite things: literature, libraries and ladies. Bingo […]

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