Readhead Reviews

The Children’s Choice Book Awards were held last night in New York City as part of Children’s Book Week. For more info on CBW, check out Kim’s post from yesterday.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme hosted by Should Be Reading, where we share a “teaser” from a book we’re currently reading.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme hosted by Should Be Reading, where we share a “teaser” from a book we’re currently reading.

So early… need… coffee. I woke up super early today to make it to our local Sunday farmer’s market – I’m on a mission to buy some delicious Indian food! What are your plans for the day? If you’ve got some free time, check out the links we’ve gathered for you this week:

Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our book for May is Paulo Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme hosted by Should Be Reading, where we share a “teaser” from a book we’re currently reading.

It’s Sunday already? Seriously, where did the weekend go? I still feel very Fridayish, not at all ready for the week yet! If you’re like me, you’d much rather check out these links than get organized for tomorrow:

Erik Larson’s national bestseller The Devil in the White City is a unique double biography of opposite characters. The chronology of Daniel Burnham’s creation of the 1893 World’s Fair is sharply contrasted with the life of serial killer H.H. Holmes, who was skulking around Chicago at the same time. Larson’s book attempts to combine historical facts with suspenseful narrative – but does he succeed?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme hosted by Should Be Reading, where we share a “teaser” from a book we’re currently reading.

Author and physicist Lee Smolin bravely faces the sad truth about the state of his science in his book The Trouble With Physics. As his introduction makes abundantly clear, “This is a story of a quest to understand nature at its deepest level… To put it bluntly… we have failed.”