Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for September 14, 2022

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Today’s topic is: What makes you pick up or buy a book?

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Geographical Terms in the Title


Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Volcanoes were my geographic term of choice for this week’s prompt.

Who else was a little scared of volcanoes when you were a child? I saw so many cartoons about characters falling into them or suddenly being surrounded by lava that I think I believed people in real life experienced the same thing more often than is generally the case, too.

If you’ve ever seen lava or a volcano in person, I’d love to hear your stories about those experiences in the comment section below.

In the meantime, here are ten fiction and non-fiction books that include the word volcano in their titles.

1. A Volcanic Affair by Xanthia Rhodes

2. In the Shadow of the Volcano by Caryn Jenner

3. On The Volcano by James Nelson

4. Volcanoes: Fire and Life by Jon Chad

5. Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens by Patricia Lauber

6. A Private Volcano: A modern novel of science and imagination by Lance Sieveking

7. Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks by Mary Caperton Morton

8. Volcano Watch (Forensic Geology #3) by Toni Dwiggins

9. Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim’s Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes by Bethany D. Rinard Hinga

10. The House on the Volcano by Virginia Nielsen

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for September 7, 2022

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Today’s topic is: A plotline you love to watch/read and why.

August Book of the Month Poll Winner ~ Racing to You by Susan Carlisle


Racing to You by Susan Carlisle
Love in the Air, book 1
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Action/Adventure
Rating: 5 stars
Reviewed by Nymphaea

Voted BoM by LASR Readers 2013 copy

The last person she wanted to ask for help is the man who destroyed her father’s life.

Hot air balloon pilot Emily Kerr needs to enter a coast-to-coast race across America to raise funds and start her own ballooning business. Her only obstacle is finding a sponsor.

Reid Martin is an industrial textile manufacturer who has developed a promising high-tech material, but he needs to test it in a practical setting before selling it to the Department of Defense. With a government contract in hand, Reid can take his family company public, saving it from bankruptcy.

Despite her reservations, Emily offers Reid an enticing opportunity to get a first-hand look at what his fabric can do. He agrees to help the intriguing woman but with two stipulations:

1. She must use the balloon he constructs
2. He will accompany her on the three-week trip

While floating across the sky, Emily reluctantly accepts the appealing man’s presence while vowing not to let him touch her heart. Will Reid risk everything—including Emily’s dream and his hope of winning her love—to save his future?

READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE!

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for August 31, 2022

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Today’s topic is: A plotline you refuse to watch/read and why.

Top Ten Tuesday: Nonfiction Science Books That Are Good Reads


Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

I had some fantastic science teachers in elementary school, but my science teachers in later grades were unfortunately not so good at sharing their love of chemistry, biology, and other topics with their students in ways that I could relate to.

Luckily, adults have much more say in what they learn about, so I have rekindled my appreciation for science with books like these.

1. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

3. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

4. Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them by Randy Christensen

5. Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott

6. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

7. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan

8. The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller

9. My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek

10. The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria by Michael Shnayerson

What did you think of science classes when you were a student? Can you recommend any other nonfiction books about science?

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for August 24, 2022

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Today’s topic is: Bookmark, scrap paper or dog-ear?

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for August 17, 2022

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Today’s topic is: Where would you spend one day in the past? Explain.

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for August 10, 2022

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Today’s topic is: Thoughts on Fan Fiction

Top Ten Tuesday: Hilarious Book Titles


Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

I love humorous book titles, especially if they’re zany! Here are some great ones.

1. Everything I Needed to Know about Women I Learned by Reading Twilight: A Vampire’s Guide to Eternal Love by Jim Lee

2. Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself by Dale Power

3. Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones

4. Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison

5. Death by Haggis by Jay Cutts

6. How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf (Naked Werewolf, #1) by Molly Harper

7. Unicorns Are Jerks: A Coloring Book Exposing the Cold, Hard, Sparkly Truth by Theo Nicole Lorenz

8. It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright

9. How to Hold a Crocodile by Firefly Books

10. Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes by Douglas J. Davies