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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 [...]
Testimony, Anita Shreve Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: October 21, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 305 pages ISBN: 978-0-316-05986-2 First sentences… It was a small cassette, not much bigger than the palm of his hand, and when Mike thought about the terrible license and risk exhibited on the tape, as well as it’s resultant destructive [...]
Ostensibly I love this word! I can never really remember what it means. I just get a sense of when it’s the right time to use it. You know what I mean? Sometimes I panic and look it up just to make sure that I am using it correctly, and I often am. It makes [...]
I haven’t actually read this one yet, but it’s on my list to read when I get it. It looks like it should be a good one, and I haven’t read a short story collection in a while. Enter to win and we can compare notes when you win. Click on the book to read [...]
From BTT: I’ve seen this series of questions floating around the ‘net the last few days, and thought it looked like a good one for us! What was the last book you bought? Sarah’s Key. Just ordered it last night with some leftover gift certificate money. Name a book you have read MORE than once [...]
It totally slipped me my mind! I have a book to giveaway. I’m trying to thing of some interesting rules and of course I am drawing a blank on fun ways to up the ante. I do like the one, three and five method. So how about this? I. Simply comment for one entry. Make [...]
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co. Publication Date: 1942 Format: Hardcover, 154 pages Earlier this year I made a list of things that I want to do and one of those things is having a sleepover with my 8-year-old cousin once a month. I am making it a point [...]
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 [...]
I took a totally unintentional blogging vacation. I went out for a friend’s birthday Friday Night and had yummy sangria and Mexican food and then Saturday Night a friend had a housewarming party and I had yummy sangria and appetizers. And then on Sunday I played bocce and my friend came over for dinner after, [...]
What, in your opinion, is the best book that you haven’t liked? Mind you, I don’t mean your most-hated book–oh, no. I mean the most accomplished, skilled, well-written, impressive book that you just simply didn’t like. Like, for movies–I can acknowledge that Citizen Kane is a tour de force and is all sorts of wonderful, [...]