When I first learned about Ru Freeman’s debut novel A Disobedient Girl on the TLC website, I knew immediately I wanted to read it. I love literary fiction set in foreign countries, and the author’s background as a political activist and journalist interested me. I was not disappointed. A Disobedient Girl is an amazing [...]
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Guest Post: Author Lisa Tucker
Recently I was delighted to accept Lisa Tucker’s latest novel The Promised World for a TLC Book Tour (read my review). Described by Booklist as a “natural born storyteller,” Lisa is also the author of The Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once Upon a Day, and The Cure for Modern Life. Her books [...]
Book Give-Away: Cleopatra’s Daughter, by Michelle Moran
Give-away ends September 9, 2009 at midnight PST
I am absolutely thrilled to be able to offer a SIGNED, HARDCOVER first edition of Michelle Moran’s newest novel – Cleopatra’s Daughter – for give-away here on my blog. My copy of this book arrived today…and it is gorgeous. I cannot wait to read it since I have [...]
Guest Post: Miriam Gershow
Miriam Gershow is the author of The Local News (read my review; read an excerpt) which was published through Spiegel and Grau in February 2009. This would make a great book for discussion (get book group discussion questions). To read more about Miriam Gershow and her work, please visit the author’s website.
I asked Miriam [...]
Women Writers in Peril
**This post was originally published on my Women Writer’s blog in September 2008; I have since closed that blog and will be periodically re-posting articles from that blog to Caribousmom.
In 2007, 45 writers from 22 countries received Hellman/Hammett grants from Human Rights Watch, an organization which supports writers around the world who have been targets [...]
Author Profile: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
**This article was originally published in part on my Women Writers blog in September 2008. That blog is now closed. I have updated this post to include Adichie’s latest work which was just published this month.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born September 15, 1977 in the town of Enugu in Nigeria, but grew up in [...]
TLC Book Tour – Cathy Holton
Cathy Holton is the author of two previous novels: Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes AND Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes.
Holton’s third novel, Beach Trip, was released in May through Ballantine Books. I thoroughly enjoyed this Southern women’s novel set in the Outer Banks of North Carolina (read my review).
To read more about Holton [...]
Last Night In Montreal – Book Review
He was hunting just then, hot on the trail of something obscure, tracking a rare butterfly-like quotation as it fluttered through thickets of dense tropical paragraphs. The chase seemed to require the utmost concentration; still, he couldn’t help but think later on that if he’d only glanced up from the work, he might’ve seen [...]
Author Judith Ryan Hendricks: TLC Book Tour
The Laws of Harmony by Judith Ryan Hendricks
Harper Paperbacks; 1 edition – February 10, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0061687365
496 pages
I recently read The Laws of Harmony – the latest novel by Judi Ryan Hendricks – and loved it (read my review). Hendricks has a way of drawing her reader into the story, of making them feel like [...]
Edith Wharton’s Home: The Mount
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Edith Wharton’s amazing home – The Mount – located in The Berkshires, Massachusetts. Not only was the house and its grounds gorgeous, but I had the added pleasure of sharing it all with a wonderful group of women who I met on line through Library Thing. The entire [...]
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