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When Myfanwy Thomas regains consciousness she is standing in the rain surrounded by dead people wearing latex gloves. Armed with only a mysterious letter that she finds in her coat pocket, and absolutely no memory, Myfanwy has to assimilate into a life previously inhabited by a former incarnation of herself. The letter leads her to make a choice- and to more letters- that explain a [...]
Doug Magee’s Darkness All Around focuses on Sean, an alcoholic whose life is unraveling, and his mysterious disappearance from the small town in which he’d grown up and married his childhood friend, Risa. After Sean is missing for several years, Risa finally has him declared dead and goes on with life to the best of her ability. She [...]
Happy New Year Everyone! Boy am I getting a late start this year. There are almost always too many books to list when I look at what’s coming out from week to week. I managed to narrow it down- just a little bit- to the ones that caught my eye. I have the starred (*) ones on [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to BOOK CLUB, a joint venture between me and Jen from Devourer of Books. Today we are discussing about Maman’s Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan which was published by Algonquin Books. About Maman’s Homesick Pie: For Donia Bijan’s family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when [...]
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 [...]
15-year-old Pearl lives with her mother in a small house on her uncle’s property in Fallbrook, California. She is used to hanging out with her cousin Robbie and her Uncle Hoyt, an avocado farmer using both legal and illegal immigrant labor to work his ranch. When Pearl spots Amiel, a young migrant miming and juggling in the [...]
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