My Book Club Reads Other Stuff Too! (2)

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I am still tuckered out from all of the excitement from Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention that I am not ready to talk about all the books I saw and the bloggers I met, so until that time, I will leave you a second installment of some of the books that my [...]

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Do People Actually Eat At Book Expo America? Or My Favorite Places To Eat In New York City! Pt.2

Are you running out of places to eat yet?  Here are a few more of my favorites that are scattered around the city! A Cafe And Wine Room –  Before I looked it up, I always knew this place as A.  Self-described as organic French Caribbean cuisine, it is probably one of the best restaurants [...]

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She’s So Dead To Us, by Kieran Scott – Book Review

She's So Dead To Us, by Kieran Scott

Ally Ryan’s life was turned upside down when her family had to flee Orchard Hill in disgrace after her father, a wealthy and successful hedge fund manager, lost most of the money of the town’s richest families in a financial scheme gone awry.  Her father  further devastates the family by abandoning them shortly after they [...]

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My Name Is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira – Book Review

My Name is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira

In My My Name Is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira’s debut historical novel unfolding against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the titular character is the headstrong twin daughter of the foremost midwife in Albany, New York.  With single-mindedness of purpose, Mary has contacted just about every doctor and medical school within her reach in [...]

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Do People Actually Eat At Book Expo America? Or My Favorite Places To Eat In New York City! Pt.1

Healthy Granola Bar Recipe ...

I was at Book Expo America last year, and as I look back on it the only time I remember eating anything was when I went out and had dinner at Dos Caminos with Jen and Trish. Other than that I vaguely remember bottled water, fruit, and granola bars.  I think I mostly popped home to [...]

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Life After Yes, by Aidan Donnelley Rowley – Book Review

Life After Yes, Aidan Donnelley Rowley, Girl in Dress with Red Sash

Quinn O’Malley is supposed to be happy.  She has just said yes to a marriage proposal from a wonderful man, is a successful New York attorney on the fast track with an entire career and lush life ahead of her, but despite all of these things she is still plagued by nightmares which seem to [...]

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Touching Home – Movie Review

Touching Home Move Poster

Last Friday night I took my mom to a screening  of the independent film Touching Home.  It’s a special movie and I wanted to share the experience with her because I had gushed to her so much about the book about the making of this movie, Either You’re In or You’re In The Way, by [...]

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A Hodge Podge of Links (2)

Human Services Division - Links

Natalie over at Book, Line and Sinker has me reminiscing about the days when I would pore over catalogs and imagine what I would buy or what I would do if I could buy something.  It’s one of those things that I got out of as I got caught up in life, but I think [...]

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Literary Feasts: The Post-Birthday World, by Lionel Shriver

Literary Feast Banquet Image @ Linus's Blanket

I have never been a huge fan of either chocolate or coffee, but there are some things that I hear about that fall under the category of exception.  Molten chocolate cakes fall into this category – I never met one that I didn’t like and devour after telling myself that I would only eat half. [...]

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Neverland, by Douglas Clegg – Book Review

Neverland, by Douglas Clegg

In Neverland, by Douglas Clegg, ten-year-old Beau Jackson returns to Gull Island, South Carolina every summer with his bickering parents and twin sisters for a two week long visit with equally cantankerous relatives.  He has an elderly wheelchair-bound grandmother, his aunt and uncle and their troubled son Sumter with which to contend. The house is [...]

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