Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
Today I am participating in the Advent Blog Tour hosted by Marg at Reading Adventures and Kailana at The Written Word, they are doing this lovely tour to celebrate holiday traditions, which brings me to one of my favorite holiday traditions, food and more particularly stuffing (or, dressing if you prefer). I’m not usually not [...]
Joyce Hinnefeld wrote the wonderful novel In Hovering Flight, a complex and intriguing story about mother-daughter relationships- among other things (read my review). Joyce graciously agreed to write a guest post for Linus’s Blanket, and even though I threw her to the wolves and didn’t give her any direction with respect to subject matter, she [...]
I’ll Never Forget The Day I Read A Book has so graciously given me the Bookworm Award which I am quite sure a host of you are familiar with having gotten it yourself. Here are the rules:Open the book closest to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you [...]
Memoir – As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning “memory”), or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms ‘memoir’ and ‘autobiography’ are today almost interchangeable. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist. -Wikipedia I have read quite a [...]
In Hovering Flight, by Joyce Hinnefeld Publisher: Unbridled Books Publication Date: September 16, 2008 Format: Advance Review Copy, 288 pages Scarlet Kavanaugh has returned home to spend time with her activist mother who is dying, by choice- she refuses treatment, from cancer that has returned to ravage her body a second time. Much to Scarlet’s [...]
When all is said and done I think I will have read about 90 books this year, and of those 90, I have finished them all save two. Both were book club books. One was not of my choosing, but the other I picked. They are North River by Pete Hammill and Man Gone Down [...]
The Bookmaker, by Michael J. Agovino Publisher: Harper Publication Date: August 19, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Michael Agovino grew up in Co-op City, once called the biggest housing project in the country, in a melting pot of New York City ethnicities where his Italian American family is in the minority. The bookmaker of the [...]
Do you give books as gifts? To everyone? Or only to select people? How do you feel about receiving books as gifts? As much as I love books and reading, I don’t buy a lot of books specifically to give to people. I pass on books that I have read more than I buy them [...]
I don't know how fun it is, but most mornings I get up at 4 a.m. to type up my posts for the day, and do other blog housekeeping items. Sometimes I have time to visit a few blogs, but not often. Why so early? I am naturally an early riser, but I think somewhere [...]
I’m not sure where I first saw this but I have been looking around for a something to do on Wednesday, so voila. “Waiting On” Wednesday is all about the books that we are anxiously awaiting; anticipating the day that they are published! Jill over at Breaking the Spine is the host. Thanks Jill! Description [...]