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I’m still a little hazy on what book trailers are supposed to accomplish and who they are for. I usually only watch them after I have read a book since I like to form my own opinions before entertaining any others. The trailer for Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook is not what I expected it to be at all. [...]
Trish from Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity is hosting a Holiday Recipe Exchange. I figure nothing says holidays like cookies and cookie exchanges, so here is a recipe idea I got from a friend of mine. I was chatting with Jen (Devourer of Books) the other day after she came back from [...]
I had seen this trailer ahead of the last few movies I’ve gone too and I kept meaning to put it up, but then kept forgetting. Though it looks like a bit of a downer and a sort of retread of similar movies about the turmoil that happens in a child’s life at the death [...]
Check out the Virtual Advent Tour Blog for more holiday goodness and fun! One of the fun things about the holiday season is celebrating old traditions and creating new ones. This is a really new tradition that I started with my friend Allie last year. We get together and have lunch and talk books, of course, but [...]
The end of the year is when the book world traditionally settles down for a moment after the hustle and bustle of the fall holiday shopping. There aren’t as many new releases popping up, but here are a couple of things that caught my eye, and they are out now and by the end of [...]
A couple of weeks ago I announced that Natalie (Coffee and a Book Chick) and I would be reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and I invited you to join us. I believe there are about 17 of us reading in total, and all are welcome to join the readalong at any time, or, chime in [...]
How is it going with your Wolf Hall reading? I took to it immediately, but Natalie had a few problems getting started. She mentioned that she is having a much better experince with it now. We are both looking forward to reading everyone’s thoughts on Sunday, but we thought it would be fun if people [...]
Over the last few months I have been enjoying casually chatting back and forth on Twitter with Natalie from Coffee And A Book Chick about Joyce Carol Oates, short stories and other literature we like, so when she mentioned that she was going to be reading Wolf Hall, I jumped at the chance to read [...]
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