A Readers Respite knows well enough that the vast majority of readers out there would most certainly not be interested in the book we are currently reading, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Socie...
Jacqueline Kellys debut young adult novel, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, accomplished a remarkable feat...it became a Newberry Honor Book in 2010, the year following its release. Not bad for...
My fellow Americans:Downton Abby. Season 2. Sunday. PBS Masterpiece Theater.Youre welcome.
...but A Readers Respite really needs to watch a story on a screen every once in a while. We havent watched television since the first season of Downton Abby ended. Weve seen one movie in...
As always, A Readers Respite is about six months behind the pack. This is especially true of our quest to read the 2011 Booker Prize nominees. We managed to snag a copy of A.D. Millers Sn...
A Readers Respite didnt participate in any reading challenges for 2011. We shoved them aside, foolishly believing that they hampered our reading and limited our book horizons. Boy, ...
A Readers Respite is pulling out the Big Guns and declaring 2012 to be the Year of the Book Moratorium. After taking a look at our Goodreads account and discovering that we have 862 books on ou...
Those of us who generally work on holidays tend to lose track of them. So you can imagine our surprise this morning when we discovered that today is actually Thanksgiving. (Whoops) ...
Evidently our blog secretary has found himself with too much down-time on his hands. We caught him placing ads on Craigs List and are not amused....so.not.amused.....
Its finally happened. Someone has kidnapped author Philippa Gregorys editor. There really can be no other explanation for the content of her latest book, The Lady of the Rivers, the final...
....but we lost the mood required for that level of snarkiness. Youll just have to wait.In the meantime, nothing says "Youre Getting Old" like your teen idol signing a book deal reminis...
Blogging is a funny thing. When A Readers Respite announced yesterday that the blog would be retiring, we felt a huge sense of relief...after all, writing snark is more difficult than one might...
For those of you who havent heard the news, A Readers Respite is retiring. Sort of. Actually, weve been absorbed (for lack of a better word) into the new online literary magazine, The Lit...
While A Readers Respite cant claim that John Stephens wrote an entirely original new Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure in The Emerald Atlas, we can tell you that originality aside, this was a rollicking ...
For some strange reason, there has been an upsurge of mentions of Philippa Gregorys old Wideacre Series in and around blogland the past couple of weeks. Were not sure why that is, but it revive...
Or rather, make that a tiger in a teapot. For the past six months or so, mothers across the U.S. have been up in arms about Yale professor Amy Chuas memoir of motherhood. You see, Amy is ...
At last A Reader’s Respite reaches the grand finale of our three-part vacation saga. Now for those of you who have ever flown trans-oceanic flights with children in tow (or if you’ve ever been stuck ...
A Reader’s Respite’s employer didn’t agree to our request for a vacation from our vacation which would explain the week that has passed since our last post. Whew. This working thing is ha...
Whew. A Reader’s Respite has officially returned from vacation. We now require a vacation from our vacation. We’ll call it Secondary Vacation and submit our request at work forthwit...
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