I received an email today letting me know that my application to become a book giver for World Book Night on April 23, 2012 was accepted and I was one of those chosen to give books away!!! Dear World Book Night book giver, Yes, you read that right: World Book Night book giver! Has a [...]
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Mailbox Monday – January 30, 2012
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books. Check out Alyce’s blog on Monday to get links to other readers’ mailboxes. Go to the dedicated blog for the meme to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. I [...]
Sunday Salon – January 29, 2012
January 29, 2012 Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon – check out links to other readers’ posts by visiting the Facebook Page. Last week I lamented being in a reading slump – and although I am reading, it has continued to be slow for me. I have pretty much [...]
Swamplandia! – Book Review
The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. When I was a kid I couldn’t see any of these ridges. It was only after Swamplandia!’s fall that time folded into a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If you’re short on time, [...]
Mailbox Monday – January 23, 2012
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books. Check out Alyce’s blog today to get links to other readers’ mailboxes. Go to the dedicated blog for the meme to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. Two fantastic [...]
Sunday Salon – January 22, 2012
January 22, 2012 Good morning – and welcome to The Sunday Salon where bloggers talk about books all day long. Check out other blogger posts by visiting the Facebook Page. Well, it was bound to happen sometime. I have been blogging books since 2006 (although my blog started in February of 2005, I didn’t discover [...]
Mailbox Monday – January 16, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books. Check out Alyce’s blog today to get links to other readers’ mailboxes. Go to the dedicated blog for the meme to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. I had [...]
Sunday Salon – January 15, 2012
January 15, 2012 Good morning, and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon – check out the Facebook page for links to other readers’ posts. I have had a good week in reading this week – finishing up three books and beginning a fourth for the month. As I mentioned last week, I [...]
Scottsboro – Book Review
Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Young manhood ground to ashes. – from Scottsboro, page 1 – Ellen Feldman’s novel Scottsboro is [...]
World Book Night: A Celebration of Reading
Can you imagine one night with 50,000 people each giving away 20 books from a select list with a goal to have 1,000,000 people across the United States alone celebrating reading en masse? This is the dream of the founders and supporters of World Book Night. On April 23, 2012 (chosen because it is the [...]
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