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Winner of the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, this unforgettable portrait of a young black girl, her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. – Goodreads The month of July is coming to a close and with it comes the end of our reading [...]
My Wife’s Affair: A Novel, by Nancy Woodruff Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books – April 15, 2010 – Paperback – 288 pages Source: Review Copy from Publisher Peter works while wife Georgie gives up a career on the stage to work in the home raising their three little boys. When the family is required to move to [...]
I think that come September I will be talking about Bones on the blog. My Bones love cannot be contained on Twitter alone. It’s bookish! It’s very loosely based on those Temperance Brennan novels that Kathy Reichs writes. I have read one of them and while it was enjoyable, I didn’t feel the need to [...]
The Dog Days of Blogging I think I have entered into what are for me the dog days of summer. I haven’t felt like posting anything lately, so I have just been going with that. I have a few giveaways that I would like to post and at the end of this month I will [...]
I have had a fabulous year in books and I like nothing better that to share those books with others, so I thought the Got Books? event would be a fabulous opportunity to spread a little book love. I will choose one winner for all of the books that I am listing below. Take a [...]
Rebecca from I’m Lost in Books features lots of great books from foreign countries and cultures, and has many fabulous features on her blog. I can’t even begin to mention them all here, but I love to read the 20 Questions that she asks bloggers about their reading and their TBR piles, and yesterday she featured [...]
The Local News: A Novel, by Miriam Gershow Spiegal & Grau – February 9, 2010 – Paperback – 384 pages Source: Sent by the author for review Lydia Pasternak’s life has changed with the frightening disappearance of her brother Danny, a star on the football team. As the search for him continues Lydia finds herself [...]
I love tarts. Love them. I think they were probably the first “sophisticated” dessert that I developed a taste for, which tells you something about my eating habits as a child. I was a very finicky eater. My mom often had to cook two versions of a dish so that I would have something to [...]
Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker: A Novel, by Syrie James Avon A – July 20, 2010 – Trade Paperback Original – 480 pages Source: Sent by publisher for review Mina Murray is in Whitby on holiday with best friend Lucy Westenra and her mother. Both are enjoying the last of their [...]
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, by Kelly O’Connor McNees Putnam Adult/Amy Einhorn Books – April 1, 2010 – Hardcover – 352 pages Source: Jen from Devourer of Books was sweet and had an ARC signed for me when Kelly visited Chicago, and I have to thank Marcia from The Printed Page for giving me [...]
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