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The Five Lost Days, by William Petrick Publisher: Pearhouse Press Publication Date: November 18, 2008 Format: Advance Reader Copy, Trade Paperback, 349 pages “But reporters and filmmakers and media people always have an idea of what they want their story or interview to come to. You’re not down here to just see where things will [...]
Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Should be Reading: 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 [...]
Islands of the Divine Music, by John Addiego Publisher: Unbridled Books Publication Date: October 28, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 256 pages “For most of her life, for nearly one hundred years, Rosari referred to 1906 as the year of the three catastrophes: the Great San Francisco Earthquake, her father’s surrender to catarrh, and her marriage to [...]
I’m halfway through the collection of stories that makes up Down to a Sunless Sea by Matthias B. Freese. So far trouble lives and troubled minds seem to make up the bulk of these stories. So far all the characters have been distinct in their craziness and their family situations. Some are more accessible than [...]
I always like to have a book with me at all times – call it a nerdy grown-up security blanket – and rarely do I leave the house without slipping one into my bag (even if I KNOW I’m not going to have a chance to read it). Do you take a book with you? [...]
Most Read Post Booking Through Thursday: Reading 5 Most Read Reviews Perfect on Paper: The (mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson by Maria Murnane The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer Foe by J.M. Coetzee Dating Davinci by Malena Lott Top Review of All Time The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner Chandler [...]
Sherry over at Semicolon does a Saturday Review of Books where we can go and post our reviews from the past week and read other’s reviews as well. Such a great idea. Thanks Sherri! This week I submitted reviews for The Uncommon Reader, The Reluctant Widow and Perfect on Paper; and not that I need [...]
Miraculously I didn’t think that I was going to have anything for Friday Finds this week, I haven’t even been around that much to look and see what’s out there, and then this review for Scratch Beginnings was published today over at Rose City Reader. The book looks super interesting and she wrote such a [...]
The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 128 pages “Previously she wouldn’t have cared what the maid thought or that she might have hurt her feelings, only now she did and coming back to the chair she wondered why. That this access of consideration [...]
Perfect on Paper: The (mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson, by Maria Murnane Publisher: Winks Ink Publication Date: February 29, 2008 Format: Trade Paperback, 314 pages “Can’t face the dating scene after a bad break-up? Honey, hit the bar, and hit it hard. Beer goggles are the lonely girl’s cupid.” Perfect on Paper by Maria Murnane is [...]