Teaser Tuesdays – 3/31/09

  Teaser Tuesdays~ 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 … [...]

Product Review: The Book Buddy

A while back I was asked to review a product called “The Book Buddy” by Mandy Blake from Reading Comfort, a company that specializes in reading accessories.  Having never reviewed a product before, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting myself into.  Mandy was so sweet, though, and assured me that she just wanted [...]

Book Club Wrap Up: Book Clubs as Cheap Entertainment

With our economy in the gutter, I’m looking for ways to have fun on a budget. Spring break is coming up and we have no plans to go anywhere, so we’ll be riding bikes, having picnics, going to the library, using coupons for free games of bowling, going to the beach (free for us) and [...]

Review: The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson is a sweet memoir of Dickinson’s life growing up, and her life as a parent to daughter Emily, in a small town in upstate New York. Full of humor and common sense, the book is about Amy’s life surrounded by an extended family of mostly women- mother, [...]

Best Bad Book? Booking Through Thursday

  Suggested by Janet: The opposite of last week’s question: “What’s the best ‘worst’ book you’ve ever read — the one you like despite some negative reviews or features?” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To answer this question, I did a little Google search of the worst books of 2008.  Lots of lists came up but I clicked on the [...]

Review: Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson

Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson is about silence and loss. On the day his daughter Miriam dies, musician Adam Anker visits a War Memorial Museum in New Zealand, where he finds a photograph of a man who shares the name he was born with, Adam Lipski, and a note from Adam’s sister. Putting that [...]

Teaser Tuesdays – 3/24/09

Teaser Tuesdays~ 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 [...]

Winner!

The winner of One True Theory of Love by Laura Fitzgerald is … Natalie of Book, Line, and Sinker! Congratulations!  I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did! Just a reminder- today is the last day to enter the contest for Hope’s Boy by Andrew Bridge!

The Sunday Salon

It’s Sunday! Wonderful Sunday! I hope everybody had a good week. Today my family is preparing to ship our oldest off to 6th grade camp in the mountains for a week. She is super excited. I’ve been giving the Sharpie a workout, writing her name on everything (“Does everything I own have to have my [...]

Book Club Q & A with Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah’s Key

In preparation for our book club meeting, we asked Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah’s Key, reviewed here, if she would answer a few questions for us, and she graciously agreed.  But beware- there are a few spoilers! Lisa’s questions: How did you originally find out about the Vel d Hiv roundup?  Did you know right [...]