Added to the TBR

New books added to the TBR this week:    The Middle Place:  Stephanie’s review is so personal, because the subject matter hit home for her.  Another mother/daughter book I need to read. Tallgrass:  Any review that starts out “Wowie zowie, this novel is great!” gets my attention.  And when Char uses a fancy word like bildungsroman, [...]

Review: The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams

Because I can only read 1-2 books a week, here’s another review from Elaine, my wonderful book club friend and guest reviewer. Thanks to Miriam at Hachette Book Group for sending this ARC to us! Fasten your seat belts for The Alexander Cipher!  Author Will Adams is about to take you for an exciting ride through [...]

Collectibles: Booking Through Thursday

    This week’s Booking Through Thursday question is: Hardcover? Or paperback? Illustrations? Or just text? First editions? Or you don’t care? Signed by the author? Or not? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your [...]

Teaser Tuesdays 2-24-09

Miz B and Teaser Tuesdays asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way [...]

Mailbox Monday – February 23, 2009

 What arrived in YOUR mailbox this week? Visit Marcia at today’s post on The Printed Page to leave a link to your post and see what other readers acquired! Here is what arrived at my house: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See   Can you say EXCITED??!!  I was so happy to find this on my doorstep this [...]

Review: The Makedown by Gitty Daneshvari

The phantom guest reviewer, Elaine, is at it again!  Here she talks about The Makedown by Gitty Daneshvari, sent to us by the wonderful Miriam at Hachette. Is it possible to write a hilarious book about a sad, pathetic main character?  Author Gitty Daneshvari has found the formula in her novel The Makedown.  Anna Norton [...]

Winner of Things I Want My Daughters to Know

We’ve come to the end.. this is the LAST winner announcement from my 100K Celebration and I must say, this was fun.  I’ll have to do it again at the next 100K mark.  It IS better to give than to receive! The winners are all “Yay!” and “Woo Hoo!” and “Yippee, packages!”   The final [...]

Winner of The Rose of Sebastopol

The winner of the Penguin giveaway for the book with the lovely cover,  The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon, is…..   Carrie K. from Books and Movies! Congratulations, Carrie!  And thanks to all who entered the contest!

Winner of Sarah’s Key and Bookcharming.com Bookmarks!

Yikes, I’m getting behind with picking winners for my 100K Giveaway.   Darn kids are keeping me busy! The winner of Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, my book club’s March selection, and the gorgeous Bookcharming.com bookmarks from Sheri of A Novel Menagerie, is Raych at Books I Done Read!   Raych, I have your [...]

Review: Swim to Me by Betsy Carter

I made a bookish resolution this year that I am now regretting, and that was to review every book I read here on the blog.  But I forgot how hard it is to  (A.)  keep up and  (2.) write a review for a ‘blah’ book.  The books I hate are easy to review, and the [...]