An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir, Elizabeth McCracken
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir, by Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date: September 10, 2008
Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
“I don’t even know what I would have wanted someone to say. Not: It will be better. Not: You don’t think you’ll live through this, but you will. Maybe: Tomorrow you [...]
Teaser Tuesdays ~ Miles from Nowhere
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 way people can have some [...]
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Girox
Publication Date: February 2004
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
First Sentence: “We are each the love of someone’s life.” -The Confessions of Max Tivoli
“I just wanted the main character to die so that the book would be over.” – a fellow book club member
So, I didn’t [...]
Mailbox Monday
Marcia at The Printed Page wanted to know; so look at what I found in my mailbox last week!
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters by Lorraine Lopez
The Darcys and the Bingleys by Marsha Altman
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (this one came special delivery because my friend Aaron gave it to [...]
Sometimes…
I come across things in books that just make me laugh…
“I shook out the brown woolen blanket I always slept in, folded it, and then patted my camicia to rid myself of hay and stray cat hair.”
I am loving this book! But I have to admit that I had to laugh out loud at this [...]
On Call with Brad Meltzer and The Book Of Lies Giveaway
I almost missed the conference call with Brad Meltzer. Last week was a week of board meetings, and in preparation for them I had been in the office pretty much all the time. Last Thursday was the first time that I was getting to go home and I was looking forward to some sleep more [...]
Jane Austen: A Life, by Carol Shields
Jane Austen: A Life, by Carol Shields
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Publication Date: 2002
Format: Hardcover, 185 pages
“Her early writing was produced within protective circumstance, and it is no surprise that her efforts are full of family jokes and private reference, some of them stinging. The family response to her deliberate outrageousness may be imagined: a rolling of the [...]
Book of Lies, by Brad Meltzer
The Book of Lies, by Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
By rights, this was probably not my book to read. I hardly ever read suspense or thrillers anymore. The last time might have been a Dean Koontz book years ago that I was too scared to finish. This was [...]
May 2010
A Gift From Brittany, Marjorie Price
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