Revisiting my childhood is like standing on the shores of a turbulent sea: achingly beautiful and dangerous – the thunderclap of breakers, the foamlicks of crests, the way swells undulate, graceful as pregnant women, the boil of froth through sand in a rip tide. And I, who never learned to swim, long to submerge myself [...]
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TLC Book Tour – Me Again
First Sentence: “I was born on a Tuesday morning. It was a difficult birth, because I was thirty-four years old.” When Jonathan Hooper wakes up after six years in a coma due to a stroke, he is unable to speak and has lost his ability to understand numbers. His awakening is considered a miracle since [...]
Touch and Go – Book Review
I thought of reeds bending but not breaking in the wind, and the strength of roots holding down the reeds – and the force of wind itself, blowing. I was tired of being the reed. – from Touch and Go – Kevin has been blind since a tragic childhood accident. He is still struggling with [...]
Salvage the Bones – Book Review
I will tie the glass and stone with string, hang the shards above my bed, so that they will flash in the dark and tell the story of Katrina, the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered. Her chariot was a storm so great and black the Greeks would say it was harnessed to [...]
Day Three BBAW Book Giveaway: Literary Fiction
Today I have two wonderful books of Literary Fiction up for grabs. Both books are brand new. One book will go to a US or Canadian blogger; the other is up for grabs for bloggers world-wide. Please read all the instructions carefully to be eligible to win! Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Hardcover: 272 [...]
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters – Book Review
Of course a writer rearranges life, shortens time intervals, sharpens events, and devises beginnings, middles and ends and this is arbitrary because there are no beginning nor any ends. We do have curtains – in a day, morning, noon and night, in a man’s birth, growth and death. These are curtain rise and curtain fall, [...]
TLC Book Tour: Guest Post by Jenny Wingfield (…and a giveaway!)
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield 336 pages ISBN 978-0-385-34408-1 Random House (July 12, 2011) I am thrilled to have author Jenny Wingfield here today for a guest post…and also to be able to offer one lucky reader a copy of Wingfield’s novel: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake. ABOUT THE BOOK: Read [...]
Everything Beautiful Began After – Book Review
On the way back home through the dusk, she’s going to ask her father for the story of how he met her mother. All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after. – from Everything Beautiful Began After, Prologue – Three people’s lives intersect in Athens, Greece one summer. Athens has [...]
Guest Post & Giveaway: Author Ann Joslin Williams
Down From Cascom Mountain, by Ann Joslin Williams 336 pages Bloomsbury USA (June 7, 2011) It is my pleasure to welcome author Ann Joslin Williams to my blog today. I just finished reading her wonderful novel, Down From Cascom Mountain, and was excited when Ann agreed to a guest post. I am also thrilled to [...]
The London Train – Book Review
[...] it was remarkable, he thought, how little mark the tumult of inward experience leaves on the external shells we inhabit. – from The London Train, page 315 – Paul is grieving the death of his elderly mother and feels oddly detached from his wife, Elise, and their two small daughters. When he gets a [...]
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