It’s Monday and time to share my mailbox with you. Here is what arrived at my house last week:
North By Montana by April Smith arrived via Jen at Jen’s Book Thoughts. This book was a prize I won by participating in the Mystery Read-A-Thon and Jen graciously donated the book for giveaway. Reissued [...]
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Mailbox Monday – June 29, 2009
Friday Finds – June 26, 2009
June 26, 2009
Each Friday, Jenn at Should Be Reading hosts the event Friday Finds where bloggers share their book finds for the week. I do not post every Friday, but I “collect” finds constantly, logging them into my Amazon wishlist and bookmarking reviews. Here are my finds for the last few weeks (clicking on the [...]
Summer Reading
Summer is officially here. Warm weather. Thunderstorms. Lazy beach days. Cookouts. Sharing drinks on the porch with friends. Sleeping in the hammock.
….and reading.
For some reason, certain books seem to fit the summer months better than others. I hope I can tempt you to try some of the books below!
Classics:
Summer Crossing, by Truman Capote (read my [...]
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 [...]
Mailbox Monday – June 22, 2009
It’s Monday again … and time for my Mailbox (brought to you by Marcia at The Printed Page)
Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah arrived from the author’s publicist. Isn’t that cover gorgeous? This book has been making the rounds and getting great reviews. Set in post-9/11 America, the novel centers around Arissa who is [...]
Sunday Salon – June 21, 2009
June 21, 2009
Good morning, fellow readers and Happy Father’s Day to those dads out there who may be reading my blog today. This weekend has been a busy one for me. I worked most of the day on Friday and then began working on Natasha’s fantastic challenge: Bloggiesta. You can see what I’ve been doing [...]
What The Dead Know – Book Review
He sat you down, looked straight into your eyes, and told you that families didn’t work that way. A family was a team, a unit, a country unto itself, the one part of her identity that would remain constant the rest of her life. “We lock our front door against strangers,” he said, “but [...]
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 [...]
Beach Trip – Book Review
“See Lola, you’re the only one with nothing to confess. You’re the only one who’s never done anything rotten enough to ask for forgiveness.”
Lola put her had back and laughed, a bright swelling laugh that made the others smile to hear it.
“Why are you laughing?” Mel asked.
“What’s so funny?”
“If only it were that [...]
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