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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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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 which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Today is the release date for Sharon Kay Penman’s Lionheart ( which I am just sinking into and loving!), and I am thrilled to have her [...]
I started reading but have not finished (and probably won’t finish) Brandi Lynn Gardner’s In Malice Quite Close. It is really good, engrossing and very well-written. If you like art, drama, intrigue and Humbert Humbert, then all of those elements and more exist in Brandi Lynn Ryder’s debut novel. So why am I not going [...]
I’m at the Blogher Book Club today chiming in with my thoughts on Sapphire’s The Kid. It’s the follow-up to her much acclaimed novel, Push, and at the very, very least, a thought-provoking read.
The first couple weeks of August have come and almost gone. I can hardly believe it. Can we also say bah humbug to scheduled posts being marked “missed schedule”? My absence from the blog was not supposed to be nearly as noticeable as it was. Anyway…I finished 7 books in July. I haven’t read as [...]
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I am a few chapters into The Oregon Experiment, by Keith Scribner and I am really enjoying it so far. It has the complicated characters and rich writing I enjoy when reading. It’s also introducing a pretty unique plot. Naomi used to be a “nose”. The kind whose sense of smell is so acute that [...]
It’s pretty widely known that I don’t change up the way that I read in the summer months. I am my same eclectic self year around, so I was excited to get with the program and read and review Karen White’s new novel, The Beach Trees, for the Blogher Book Club. It’s got the word [...]