January 1 – December 31, 2012 2012 will be here before we know it – and The Chunkster Challenge is back. This year Vasilly from 1330V has joined me in hosting this popular challenge…and we’ve made a couple of changes (including moving the start date up to January 1st) which you can read about on [...]
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Mailbox Monday – December 12, 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. It [...]
Sunday Salon – December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011 Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon – grab a cup of coffee, put your feet up and lets talk about books. Join the discussion on Facebook to get more links to Sunday Salon posts. This week I finished reading The Devil’s Ribbon by D.E. Meredith which [...]
Maman’s Homesick Pie – Book Review
Exile is threaded into your daily life long after you have become a citizen and pledged your allegiance and can make the best brownies in the neighborhood. I was compelled to make sense of my parents’ journey from Iran to America to understand the world they inhabited. Just five years shy of my mother’s age [...]
Mailbox Monday – December 5, 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. Check the dedicated blog for the meme to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. Here is [...]
Sunday Salon – December 4, 2011
December 4, 2011 Good morning and welcome to The Sunday Salon – an online blogging event which celebrates reading. Visit the Facebook page to get more links to Sunday Salon posts. This week was a rough one for me. I fell ill with the flu last Saturday and ended up flat on my back and [...]
Mailbox Monday – November 28, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted on the dedicated blog for the meme. You can check that blog to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. Here is what arrived at my house this week: Thanks to James Meader at Picador, I received [...]
Sunday Salon – November 27, 2011
November 27, 2011 Good morning and welcome to The Sunday Salon where bloggers post about their reading and invite conversation. Check out the Facebook page for other links. My post this morning is going to be short and sweet. I think I should have left off my gratitude about good health on this post because [...]
Mailbox Monday – November 21, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday. This month Mailbox Monday is being hosted on the dedicated blog for the meme. You can check that blog to see the complete tour schedule in the left hand sidebar. Here is what arrived at my house this week: The folks from Random House sent me an [...]
Sunday Salon – November 20, 2011
November 20, 2011 Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon. Don’t miss other bloggers’ posts – visit the Facebook Page for links. This morning I woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. I am so not ready for winter. If only it could hold off until after [...]
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