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TLC Book Tour and Guest Post: Laura Lippman

Mar 2nd, 2010
by Caribousmom.
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Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
ISBN 978-0-06-112889-9
352 pages
Published by William Morrow/Harper Collins (2009)
Last year I read my first Lippman novel: What the Dead Know (read my review). I loved it. So when I saw that TLC Book Tours would be touring Lippman’s book Life Sentences, I knew I wanted to participate. Life Sentences is [...]

TLC Book Tour: Paula Butturini, author of Keeping The Feast, Guest Post

Feb 3rd, 2010
by Caribousmom.
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Many thanks to TLC Book Tours for inviting me to tour Paula Butturini’s new memoir: Keeping the Feast (read my review). I love books that center around food in foreign countries, and Butturini’s story of illness and recovery in Italy reminds us how the ritual of food is a symbol of survival.
About Paula Butturini:
Paula [...]

The Classics Circuit: Edith Wharton on Tour

Jan 27th, 2010
by Caribousmom.
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Welcome to my tour of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) for this month’s Classics Circuit. I read two books written by Edith Wharton for this tour: The House of Mirth (read my review) and The Writing of Fiction (read my review). I am really glad I read these books back to back as Wharton’s guide to writing [...]

TLC Book Tour and Give-Away: Shanghai Girls

Jan 13th, 2010
by Caribousmom.
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I was very excited to receive a copy of Shanghai Girls from Random House as part of a TLC Book Tour. Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as [...]

Shanghai Girls – Book Review

Jan 13th, 2010
by Caribousmom.
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So often we’re told that women’s stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen, or in the bedroom? Who cares about the relationships between mother, daughter, and sister? A baby’s illness, the sorrows and pains of childbirth, keeping the family together during war, poverty, or [...]

TLC Book Tour – Cathy Holton

Jun 15th, 2009
by Caribousmom.
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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 [...]