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1) Are you a leader or a follower? A leader. Or at the very least I do my own thing if no one else wants to do anything with me. 2) Who is the person you are most candid with? I’m pretty candid in general but with my mom and my friend Laura I have [...]
Last week I threw my hat into the world of Weekly Geeks. For my first assignment I had to interview another blogger about a book they had recently read and then they were to interview me on what I had last read. So unfinishedperson from Just a (Reading) Fool and I exchanged interviews. Judging from [...]
The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 2003 Format: Hardcover, 219 pages “The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility.” Joan Castleman is on an airplane accompanying her husband, writer Joseph [...]
Sherry over at Semicolon does a Saturday Review of Books where we can go and post reviews to our book and take a look at the books that other have been reading over the past week. Thanks Sherri! This week I submitted reviews for Peony in Love , The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, and The [...]
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: April 2003 Format: Paperback, 432 pages First Sentence: Mike always teased me about my memory, about how I could go back years and years to what people were wearing on a given occasion, right down to their jewelry or shoes. Carrie Bell is [...]
The Age of Consent, by Geoffrey Wolff Picador, 1996 240 pages, Paperback From Library Journal In her 15th summer, Maisie Jenks suddenly leaps from a rocky ledge during the family’s Independence Day picnic, critically injuring herself and forever altering her family’s lives. After she recovers, she will not reveal her motives, leaving her younger brother, [...]
Suggested by JM: I was looking through books yesterday at the shops and saw all the Twilight books, which I know basically nothing about. What I do know is that I’m beginning to feel like I’m the *only* person who knows nothing about them. Despite being almost broke and trying to save money, I almost [...]
Peony in Love, by Lisa See Publisher: Random House Format: 284 pages/Hardcover Somehow, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan made it into my collection of tbr and I loved the beautiful story of friendship and sacrifice, and the now lost art of nushu (secret women’s writing). I finally got around to reading Peony In Love [...]
Thanks to all who participated in my 1st giveaway! We have a winner of Hurry Down Sunshine. Tasses from Random Wonder! Please e-mail me your address so I can get your book to you.
Natasha over at Maw Books Blog is hosting a month long event to raise money and awareness about the genocide happening in Darfur, Sudan. Here is what she has to say about the event: During September every book I read, every post I write, every comment left on this blog, and every book that you [...]
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