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I’m not one for giving that many disclaimers about books in day to day life. For the most part the readers that I know are similar to me in background and experiences and I wouldn’t think twice about giving them something that might be considered offensive as far as language, sex and sexuality, religion, etc. [...]
The Turnaround, by George Pelecanos Publisher: Back Bay Books Publication Date: April 7, 2009 Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages In A Nutshell: Recommended In the summer of 1972 three teenagers go into the unfamiliar neighborhood of Heathrow Heights. They are restless and looking for trouble, and boy do they find it. They cross paths with [...]
While I was at BEA, I picked up a copy of a book called Spent: Break the Buying Obsession and Discover Your True Worth by Sally Palaian. I’m not a big spender in a lot of areas, but when it comes to books I am completely irrational. I was flipping through Spent and I came [...]
I’m doing the Sunday Salon pretty early today. I never do it this early, but if I don’t do it early then I usually don’t have the opportunity to participate. The day just gets so busy. This is the rare weekend in which I don’t have anything planned and it’s rainy out, so it is [...]
Why This? Way back in April, Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness hosted a giveaway for Buy A Friend A Book Week, with the catch that whoever won would do a book conversation with her on Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession. I entered and said what a great idea [...]
The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Riverhead Trade Publication Date:March 3, 2009 Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages Rating: Just Okay Last year I read The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer and absolutely loved it. I picked it up on impulse at the library. I had heard of Meg Wolitzer before, but I had never [...]
Why This? This is one of those books where the cover got me. I kept seeing it in Barnes & Noble and I would be drawn to the pretty, and pick it up and visit with it, and then wander off to buy something else. Had absolutely no idea what it was about. I finally [...]
I have been doing a some work in the last few weeks cleaning up my libraries on Goodreads and LibraryThing. I have been putting in some of the information about when I have read books, throwing reviews up when have one, and I was stumped with the older books in my library. I am finding [...]
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