Summer Reading: The TBR of Intrepid Reader Karen

Intrepid Reader Karen has published her summer reading list, and I think I can speak for all of us when I say, "I approve!" 

As we all can agree, TBR List Approval doesn't matter. We The Readers read what we want, and we support reading freedom for others. 

However, we are inordinately pleased when we see books we recognize — either read or to read — on someone else's summer reading list.

So, without further ado, I present Intrepid Reader Karen's 2019 Summer Reading List:

• The Psychology of Time Travel 
• The Girl With a Pearl Earring
• Relative Fortunes
• The Lost City of Z
• Women of the Bible (selected readings)
• Ruby Red
• Sapphire Blue
• Emerald Green
• Dream a Little Dream trilogy
• Finding Fraser
• The Ghost Studies
• Pirate
• The Iliad
• Stealing Time
• Released by the Highlander
• The Holy Bible (selected readings)

You will notice The Ghost Studies is on her reading list. We hope you will join us for this group read!  Click here for more information.

Personally, I am excited about a couple of books on this list,that have been in my sights for a while. Now that Karen is reading them, perhaps I'll pull them down from the shelf and read them, too. I love getting ideas on what to read from my fellow readers. I hope I can do the same for you in return.

Do you have any of Karen's books on your TBR list? Let us know in the comments below, or drop me a line, and maybe we can read them together!

Happy reading!

Ramp Up Your Summer Reading With The Ghost Studies

Do you want to ramp up your summer reading? Join your fellow book-clubbers in reading a fascinating book selected by Intrepid Reader Karen.

Karen has discovered a phantastic book titled The Ghost Studies: New Perspectives on the Origin of Paranormal Experiences by Brandon Massullo.

The Ghost Studies, according to Google, provides scientific explanations for paranormal occurrences, including:

• New and exciting scientific theories that explain apparitions, hauntings, and communications from the dead
• The latest research on the role of energy and electricity in hauntings
• The role that emotions, bioenergetics, and the environment play in supernatural phenomena
• New research into why some individuals are more prone to ghostly encounters

I am as skeptical as the next person, but I have had some inexplicable experiences that make me wonder what else there is in heaven and earth, and I'm willing to find out what Mr. Massullo has to say on the subject.

Readers, let's begin discussing the tome on September 2.

Oh, and start planning for our Autumn Read: The Iliad, a new translation by Caroline Alexander.

What books would you like to read together? Offer some suggestions in the comments below, or email me and I'll share your ideas with the rest of the group!

Join the 2019 Polar Book Club — And Read With Friends

What else should an Intrepid Reader do during the winter but — well, read?


Join the Polar Book Club in reading The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks. 


It's a novel loaded with time travel, mystery, and — you know what? I'll let the author describe the book himself:


Annabelle Aster has discovered a curious thing behind her home in San Francisco: a letter box perched atop a picket fence. 

The note inside is blunt—“Trespass is dealt with at the business end of a shotgun in these parts!”— spurring some lively correspondence between the Bay Area orphan and her new neighbor, a feisty widow living in a nineteenth century Kansas wheat field. 


The source of mischief is an antique door Annie installed at the rear of her house. The man who made the door—a famed Victorian illusionist—died under mysterious circumstances. Annie and her new neighbor, with the help of friends and strangers alike, must solve the mystery of what connects them across time before one of them is convicted of a murder that is yet to happen... and somehow already did.



Now that you're hooked... join the club!

Let's begin the discussion on Monday, March 4. 

You can leave a comment on the blog, below, or email me your impressions and I'll publish the thread of our conversation on the blog. You can decide how you want to be identified, if at all, in the conversation.

Thanks to Intrepid Reader Karen for giving me this book last summer, and for suggesting it for the Polar Book Club.

Questions? Comments? Ideas for the Spring Reading Club? Comment below or contact me!