August BOOK CLUB Giveaway – By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham

By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham

The time passes so quickly! It’s time for another BOOK CLUB Giveaway. We are excited to be working with a new BOOK CLUB partner for another round of exciting book club selections. Our next few books are from Picador, and we had to make some hard choices to see just which books we would be [...]

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Cool Down With AC – Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse Discussion

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

Masterpiece Mystery aired The Pale Horse last night. I was excited to get to know another Christie detective during our  Cool Down with AC read/watch-along, and I just loved Miss Marple. If you missed the movie last night on PBS, make sure you catch it while it’s available to view online! The Pale Horse begins [...]

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Go The F**K To Sleep, by Adam Mansbach; Illustrated by, Richard Cortes – Book Review

Go The F**k To Sleep, by Adam Mansbach and Richard Cortes

Billed as a bedtime story for parents, Go The F**K To Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Richard Cortès is the battle cry, albeit it one silently voiced, of anyone- parents, babysitter, innocent bystander who just want a little peace/quiet/good night’s sleep from an active toddler or rambunctious baby. It is HILARIOUS. And dude, if you [...]

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Cool Down With AC – The Summer of Agatha Christie Readalong Nears The Halfway Point

Summer with AC - LB

Has keeping up Agatha Christie been keeping you cooled down this summer? It’s been a bit of a breakneck speed for me on the book and movie front, but that’s about to settle down as I watch my last Christie movie for the summer, again. Boo! Tonight on Masterpiece Mystery, The Pale Horse will be [...]

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Alice Bliss: A Novel, by Laura Harrington – Book Review

Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington

Alice Bliss, by Laura Harrington, is the story of fifteen-year-old Alice, a daddy’s girl, and the year she and her family spend with her father, Matt, deployed in Iraq. Alice’s mother Angie questions his decision to serve his country over the family who needs him, and Matt, though probably well-meaning, puts considerable pressure on Alice [...]

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Witches of East End, by Melissa de la Cruz – Book Review

Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz

Witches of East End is Melissa de la Cruz’s foray into the adult paranormal market with this first in a series about a family of witches living quietly (at least at first) in quaint and beautiful North Hampton. Joanna Beauchamp and her daughters Ingrid and Freya have been banned from practicing magic after overuse and [...]

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That’s How I Blog! Chat With Sandy Nawrot (You’ve GOTTA Read This)

Sandy Nawrot

That’s How I Blog! is my talk show (now podcast) where I interview bloggers about what they read growing up, what’s on their bookshelves and how they fell into the world of blogging. It’s in a bit of transition as I try to figure out the best way to host it and where (it could [...]

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Out of Twenty – Diana Spechler, Author of Skinny, Answers Nine Questions

Diana Spechler, auhor of Skinny

In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing the which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! I first heard of Diana Spechler, author of the novel Skinny, when Jennifer from The Literate Housewife summed up [...]

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The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise And Spectacular Fall Of A Serial Imposter, by Mark Seal – Book Review

The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing and Spectacular Life of A Serial Imposter by Mark Seal

Clark Rockefeller is the strange, complex and ultimately enigmatic persona profiled and exposed in Mark Seal’s The Man In The Rockefeller Suit. In a definite case of truth being stranger than most things fiction could ever have dreamed up, Rockefeller is not a real Rockefeller, but Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who entered the United [...]

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Literary Feasts – The Beginners, by Rebecca Wolff/ Lamb Chops With Green Peas and Mashed Potatoes

lamb chops with peas and potatoes

Food in books usually serves a purpose greater than just the delight of my food loving heart. What people eat and how they react to it gives insight into their socio-economic status, tastes and preferences and character. In The Beginner, by Rebecca Wolff, Ginger’s mother has a view of food the informs the way you [...]

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