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The Secret Lives of People in Love – Book Review

Love reveals the beauty of seemingly trivial things – a pair of shoes, an empty wine glass, an open drawer, cracks on the avenue. – from The World Laughs in Flowers, page 48 of The Secret Lives of People in Love – Simon Van Booy weaves tales of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary in [...]

Mailbox Monday – June 28, 2010

Another Monday…and another Mailbox Monday (hosted each week by Marcia at The Printed Page). No matter how disciplined I try to be, books keep finding their way onto my shelves…and this week was no different. Here is what arrived on my doorstep over the last seven days: I requested Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman  [...]