Happy Christmas Eve! There were 18 people who entered to win a hard cover edition of The Wild Christmas Reindeer, by Jan Brett. This is a beautifully illustrated story for children which I am happy to give away for Christmas. I assigned a number (from 1 to 18) to each person as their emails arrived, [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Mailbox Monday – December 22, 2008
Another Monday and a lot more books have found their way into my home this week. The Scent of Oranges, by Joan Zawatzky arrived from Garev Publishing International. This beautiful hard cover book was published in the United States in October of this year. Set in South Africa, it is dubbed as “a suspenseful account [...]
Eye in the Door – Book Review
It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thoroug and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically [...]
Sunday Salon – December 21, 2008
December 21, 2008 2:30PM Good afternoon, fellow readers! It is definitely looking more like Christmas around here. We have had about a foot of new snow in the last week, and today is mixed snow and sleet (with predictions for up to 6 more inches of snow by tomorrow). I got a late start on [...]
Blog Awards
Many thanks to Jenn at Should Be Reading for nominating my blog A Novel Challenge as the MOST ORGANIZED. This was especially timely since I have been feeling pretty DISorganized of late! Jenn is one of the most thoughtful bloggers out there… This award deals with values we deem important in others. So now it [...]
Celebrate The Author Challenge
Becky at Becky’s Book Reviews is sponsoring a Celebrate The Author Challenge beginning
January 1, 2008 and running through December 31, 2008
Designed to celebrate author birthdays, the challenge requires that participants choose one author a month to read. When I took a look at Becky’s links to author birthdays, I realized this challenge would be an easy one for me to accomplish. Plus, Becky is allowing participants to choose as they go and to change lists at will – I love flexibility like that!!
So here are some of my ideas for each month (subject to change):
January
David Mitchell (b. Jan 1969) – Ghostwritten (completed January 30, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
February
J.M. Coetzee (b. Feb 9, 1940) – Life and Times of Michael K (completed February 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
March: John Irving, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alice Hoffman
April: Barbara Kingsolver
May: Peter Carey, Daphne Du Maurier, Sigrid Undset, Maeve Binchy, Ursela Hegi, Jodi Picoult
June: Larry McMurtry, Ken Follett, Patricia Cornwell, Ian McEwan
July: No choices YET
August: Isabel Allende, A.S. Byatt
September: Jean Plaidy, Stephen King, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Leo Tolstoy
October: Graham Greene, Anne Rule, Anne Perry, Anne Tyler
November: Margaret Atwood
December: Elizabeth Berg, Willa Cather, Jane Austen
Mailbox Monday – December 15, 2008
What arrived in your mailbox this week? Between the US Postal Service and the UPS man (who is now my best friend), this is what I got: An Advance Reader’s Edition of American Rust, by Philipp Meyer arrived from Spiegel & Grau. Due for release February 24, 2009 this debut novel is about “friendship, loyalty, [...]
Blog Advent Tour 2008 – Santa (and a Give-Away)
l To see the full calendar, visit this post. Marg and Kailana are the hosts of the Blog Advent Tour. Don’t miss all the great holiday posts from participating bloggers! Today’s tour hosts are: Natasha from Maw Books Somewhere in Between And me!! ******************************* I remember waking before dawn on Christmas morning to the heavy [...]
Regeneration – Book Review
I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. – from A Soldier’s Declaration by S. Sassoon, July 1917 – Regeneration is the first book in Pat Barker’s World War I trilogy. [...]
Sunday Salon – December 14, 2008
December 14, 2008 Winter seems to be finally arriving in the form of rain, wind and sleet. I don’t know about you, but I look forward to these stormy days to cuddle up under a fleece blanket with a good book while the fire crackles in the stove. The cats like it too! I have [...]
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