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 [...]
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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 [...]
Mailbox Monday – January 9, 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. True to [...]
Sunday Salon – January 8, 2012
January 8, 2012 Welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon – put up your feet, grab your beverage of choice and settle in to talk about books (check out the Facebook page for more Sunday Salon links). I got a late start to the morning today. The fire had gone out in the [...]
Mailbox Monday – January 2, 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. Here is [...]
Sunday Salon – January 1, 2012 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 1, 2012 Happy New Year! It is hard to believe, but 2011 is over and we are launching into a new year of reading. I did not participate in Sunday Salon last week because of Christmas, so today’s post will cover my reading over the last two weeks – as well as discussion of [...]
Mailbox Monday – December 26, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Jenny Q at Let Them Read Books. Check out her 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. Here [...]
Mailbox Monday – December 19, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Jenny Q at Let Them Read Books. Check out her 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. In [...]
Sunday Salon – December 18, 2011
December 18, 2011 Good morning and welcome to The Sunday Salon – grab your beverage of choice, put up your feet and let’s talk books. To visit other Sunday Salon posts, check out the Facebook page for links. The weeks are flying by – only a week until Christmas and then another week and we [...]
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