MyParty. Finds. A Home.

Its been a while since I shared a book on this blog, mainly because it has been a while since I picked up one. I’m still on the hunt for the nearest public library so, until then, I’m going to be scouring the bookstores for some great deals. We were at Costco the other day [...]

Leron leron sinta Buko ng papaya Dala-dala’y buslo Sisidlan ng bunga. ~~~ *A special shout-out to my BFFs here in Atlanta for my birthday gift. Love you! *muah* I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life Just to be with you is having the best day of my life [...]

author: Alan Lightman published: 2004 by Vintage isbn: 140007780X (isbn13: 9781400077809) pages: 144 description: Einstein’s Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time–Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk [...]

author: Annie Dillard published: 1988 by HarperCollins isbn : 0060915455 (isbn13: 9780060915452) pages: 271 description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by the author whom The Boston Globe called “one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today”. AND I SAY: If well-being were a book, this would be it. There’s something about how Dillard strings [...]

author: Nicole Krauss published: 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company isbn: 0393060349 (isbn13: 9780393060348) pages: 252 literary awards: 2006 Orange Prize Shortlist description: Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, [...]

author: Marisa de los Santos published: November 28th 2006 by Plume isbn: 0452287898 (isbn13: 9780452287891) pages: 320 Description: When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, [...]

Have you read this yet? I’m going to get a copy of it on my next trip to the bookstore. Its supposed to be a “fun, frothy, memoir about travel, fashion, family, true love, unlikely friendships, and entrepreneurial spirit” told from the vantage point of Michael Tonello, a “stylish and savvy outsider who successfully vaulted [...]

author: Ken Follet published: February 4th 2002 by NAL Trade first published: 1989 isbn: 0451207149 (isbn13: 9780451207142) pages: 976 Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly [...]

author: Judith McNaught published: June 1st 1992 by Pocket first published: 1996 isbn: 0671776800 (isbn13: 9780671776800) pages: 720 Description: Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana’s steel mills. A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in [...]

author: Audrey Niffenegger published: 2004 by Harvest Books isbn: 015602943X (isbn13: 9780156029438) pages: 560 description: Audrey Niffenegger”s innovative debut, The Time Traveler”s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare [...]