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October 9, 2011 Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon, a place where readers meet to talk about books. Check out the Facebook page to get more links to other Sunday Salon posts and to join us. This week I finished reading Marisa de los Santos’s latest novel: Falling Together. [...]

Here is the clip of Jodi Picoult answering my question about music therapy during the Livestream Interview with the Atria Literary Salon back on March 7th (you can watch the entire interview here).

My apologies…but the spam in the last two days has gone out of control on my blog (130 spam comments for today alone) and I have decided to close comments on articles which are older than 30 days for now. I will consider reopening comments to all articles in a week or so. Thanks for [...]

I am delighted to announce that Caribousmom has been selected by Awarding The Web as one of the 2010 Top Book Blogs. There are some great blogs that are sharing this award with me…many of which I regularly read and can attest to their awesome content. Here is the list of the blogs which were [...]

Well, I emailed Maddie and gave her more than a week to respond…and she hasn’t. SO, I decided to draw another winner. Once again I used Random.org and the winner this time is: Teresa W. who wrote: “This would be a new author for me, sounds good!“ Teresa, I’ll be sending you an email – [...]

Faced with over 100 spam comments twice a day (all of which I feel I have to look at because once in a while a REAL comment is captured by my filter), I have been forced to shut off comments on several posts which seem to be the ones targeted. Unfortunately, some of these are [...]

My apologies to all those who have left me comments in the last week. I am WAY behind on responding to comments and just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate your visits to my blog and your thoughtful and kind comments. I promise to get caught up this week!!

Due to a rather rabid spammer who has somehow figured out how to get around my very good spam filter, I have turned on moderation for those commenters who are new to Caribousmom. Once I have approved a first time commenter, they will be free to post comments unmoderated. I have been deleting spam comments [...]

For those of you who enjoyed my recent post on the Mt. Shasta Lavender Farm…I just wanted to let you know that The Piker Press is running it this week on their site. My book reviews are also reprinted there on a weekly basis. I have other work which has been featured on this weekly [...]