April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009 UPDATE April 8, 2009: I failed badly on completing this challenge – although I have tons of cookbooks and enjoy cooking, I found myself sticking to my old favorites this year due to a busy work schedule and a new puppy. I am still determined to cook from [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
What An Animal Challenge
July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 UPDATE APRIL 8, 2009 – CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!! Thanks very much to Kristi for hosting this fun challenge. I found out that I had quite a few books which met the requirements for this one. My favorite read was a tie between: The Mechanics of Falling (a collection of [...]
Themed Reading Challenge: Links for Wrap Up Posts
Please use this Mr. Linky to link to your wrap up post for the challenge once you have completed it. **Links should link DIRECTLY to your posted review (not just to your home page of your blog). Reviews linked incorrectly will be deleted from Mr. Linky (I will first attempt to fix the link, but [...]
Book Giveaway – Buffalo Lockjaw
Contest open April 7 – 14, 2009 It is my pleasure to give away an Advance Reader’s Edition of Buffalo Lockjaw, by Greg Ames (read my review of the book). Buffalo Lockjaw was released March 31st through Hyperion and is Greg Ames’ debut novel. His stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, anthologies and websites, [...]
Buffalo Lockjaw – Book Review
To Tricia and her coworkers, my mother is not entirely human – not a daughter, not a mother, not a wife. Her past wiped out, she is just another sack of flesh, dehumanized. She has become a freak. Staff members put food in Ellen’s mouth, strip clothes off her body, dress her and lay her [...]
Guest Post: Catherine Brady
It was with great pleasure that I sat down and read Catherine Brady’s newest collection of short stories (read my review). I am a lover of short stories, but I know that many readers are not…and it made me wonder, is there a way to approach this narrative form to improve one’s enjoyment of it? [...]
Mailbox Monday – April 6, 2009
Welcome to Mailbox Mondays (hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page) where readers share the books which arrived at their home that week. Here’s what I added to my teetering TBR pile: The American Journey of Barack Obama, published by LIFE was a book I won in a giveaway on Amy’s blog. This is a [...]
Sunday Salon – April 5, 2009
April 5, 2009 7:00AM Good morning, fellow readers! I have been a bit more successful with my reading of late now that I have Raven on somewhat of a schedule. She now only gets up at night twice, giving me and Kip a good four hour chunk of sleep time between “potty” runs. She is [...]
Netherland – Book Review
And so I was in a state of fuming helplessness when I stepped out into the inverted obscurity of the afternoon. As I stood there, thrown by Herald Square’s flows of pedestrians and the crazed traffic diagonals and the gray, seemingly bottomless gutter pools, I was seized for the first time by a nauseating sense [...]
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