Welcome to Mailbox Monday (sponsored by Marcia at The Printed Page) where I share the new books which have arrived at my home over the last seven days. I am posting this a day early as tomorrow I will be touring a book for TLC Book Tours and I did not want a competing post [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2010’
Sunday Salon – July 25, 2010
July 25, 2010 9:00 AM Good morning! I did not want to get out of bed this morning…I would have liked to just stay put, catching up on my sleep, reading a bit…but, I overcame the inertia and here I am with my cup of coffee, ready to talk about books. Although I do not [...]
Book Gluttony…
Gluttony: To gulp down or swallow, means over-indulgence and over-consumption… Yes, this describes my relationship with books now-a-days. I am reading books in giant gulps; I’m purchasing and acquiring…over-indulging and over-consuming. But there are much worse addictions out there, and I have no plans to stop any time soon. Last week I went on a [...]
Top Book Blogs Award
I am delighted to announce that Caribousmom has been selected by Awarding The Web as one of the 2010 Top Book Blogs. There are some great blogs that are sharing this award with me…many of which I regularly read and can attest to their awesome content. Here is the list of the blogs which were [...]
Author Guest Post: Phyllis Schieber
Today I am delighted to invite author Phyllis Schieber to Caribousmom with a guest post about grown children – a subject she also explores in her two novels The Sinners Guide to Confession and Willing Confession. To join the Sinners Guide to Confession and Willing Spirits virtual tour and learn more about the tour, visit [...]
By Fire, By Water: Author Guest Post and Giveaway
By Fire, By Water, by Mitchell James Kaplan ISBN 978-159051352-1 277 pages Other Press LLC (May 2010) Recently I was privileged to read Mitchell James Kaplan’s thrilling debut novel By Fire, By Water (read my review). Set in 15th century Spain, this historical novel kept me enthralled. I am even more delighted to have Kaplan [...]
Winners: Lynne Griffin Books
Many thanks to all who stopped by and read Lynne Griffin’s heartfelt guest post and entered to win a copy of one of her novels. I randomly assigned a number to all entries, then used Random.Org to choose a winner for each book. I will be contacting winners by email and ask that they respond [...]
Mailbox Monday – July 19, 2010
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. It is here where I share with you the books which have found their way to my doorstep each week. I am beginning to think I need to build a cottage just to house all the amazing books stacked up [...]
Social Justice Challenge: Poverty
This month’s theme for The Social Justice Challenge is poverty. We all know what poverty looks like, right? We see it on our streets daily – the homeless sitting on street corners, the elderly struggling to pay for medications and groceries, the young who are often hungry and sad. Most of us probably have a [...]
Sunday Salon – July 18, 2010
July 18, 2010 Another Sunday, another Salon. If there was any doubt that summer is here, it is gone now. We have had triple digit temperatures in the valley all week and it is miserable. I have also been working like crazy and there really needs to be more hours in the day to get [...]
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