Today was a good reading day. I spent all of Saturday with housekeeping and doing my hair, and today I got the chance to just relax. I’m hosting a giveway that ends on September 1st, 11:59pm EST. If you’s like to read Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg go here. My review is here. I [...]
Book Bulletin ~ Matrimony, Joshua Henkin
I am about eighty pages into Matrimony by Joshua Henkin and I’m not yet sure how I feel about it. Right now it’s a little loose and it’s just going along; from what I know so far I don’t have a a clue as to what will happen next or how these characters will end [...]
Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood – Book Review
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood Fiction, 196 pages, Hardcover Publisher: Canongate Publication Date: 2005 I picked up this book while browsing at the library during lunchtime (that is quickly becoming my latest addiction). I already have copies of Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood at home; but of course I [...]
Booking Through Thursday
If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) No … it’s because [...]
Teaser Tuesday ~ August 26
Teaser Tuesdays asks you to: Please avoid spoilers! Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that [...]
Lost, by Cathy Ostlere – Book Review
Lost, by Cathy Ostlere Memoir, 240 pages, Paperback Publisher: Key Porter Books Publication Date: March 1, 2009 (US) Lost begins on September 30, 1995 with a family gathered around the kitchen table, waiting for Cathy Ostlere’s brother David to call. He is an adventurer and can be any given place at any time, but he [...]
Sunday Salon ~ ARC Giveaway
I read and enjoyed Michael Greenberg’s Hurry Down Sunshine, due out September 9, 2008,and now I am giving away my ARC copy so that you can enjoy it too! From the Back Cover HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. [...]
Diets for Healthy Healing, Linda Page – Book Review
Diets for Healthy Healing by Linda Page Non-Fiction, 256 pages ~ Trade Paperback Publisher: Healthy Healing, Inc. Publication Date: October 2005 “Food is a potent healer. Your diet can literally transform your body.” I am a big believer in using my meals to stay healthy and out of the doctor’s office. Every now and then [...]
Random Musings & Lost by Cathy Ostlere
I’m in my bedroom, book by my side, and enjoying a glass of Chianti that I got last month in Rome. In the distance, in the kitchen, I hear a bag rustling and I know that one of my cats is rifling through the garbage; making a mess for me, but I am too relaxed [...]
Sunday Salon ~ Man Gone Down
Man Gone Down, by Michael Thomas Fiction, 428 pages ~ Trade Paperback Publisher: Black Cat Publication Date: 2007 It seems that I am not destined to be one of the people who loved this book. The New York Times Book Review called it “powerful and moving…an impressive success”, and named it one of the ten [...]
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