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Feb 7, 2011, 4:09 pm
Title: Matched
Author: Ally Condie
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (November, 2010)
Pages: 384
Book Source: ARC from Publisher
Ally Condie's new novel Matched opens with Cassia Reyes confronting her future as planned out by the authorities of the very controlled society that she lives in. While she is ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2011, 6:01 pm
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Publisher: HarperPerennial Modern Classics: 2006
Original Publication: 1937
Pages: 205
From Cover: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eye... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2010, 1:46 pm
Title: The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
Author: Patricia Duncker
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2010)
Pages: 260
Book Source: Review copy from Publisher
Back Cover Summary: The bodies are discovered on New Year's Day: sixteen dead in the freshly fallen snow. The adults lie stiff in a semicircl... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2010, 11:26 am
Title: A Hope Undaunted: A Novel
Author: Julie Lessman
Publisher: Revell (2010)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Christian Romance
Pages: 505
Book Source: Free copy from Publicist for review
Publisher Summary (from back cover):
The 1920s are drawing to a close, and feisty Katie O'Connor is the epitome of ... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2010, 11:12 am
Hi all,
Sorry that I don't post very often these days. I have kind of gotten out of the habit of posting on a regular basis. Just lazy with it I guess. I do still read a lot though and I have a very long list of books that I have read but not yet reviewed. None of these books stand out as being exce... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2010, 8:59 am
Waldon Pond
The photo above is a replica of author Henry David Thoreau's cabin in the woods
where he went to "live deliberately."
Waldon Pond in the Summer time. Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2010, 9:02 am
Title: Think of a Number
Author: John Verdon
Publisher: Crown Publishers (2010)
Pages: 432
Book Source: ARC from Publisher
Think of a Number opens with the arrival of an intriguing poem which claims to know all the secrets of the recipient - including the ability to read his mind. This first letter ... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2010, 1:31 pm
I posted a few weeks ago that I was soon going to be doing a product review for CSN Stores and I am just now getting to it. The item I ended up choosing was a TV stand because the one we had was a cabinet that I had moved upstairs for anther purpose - which left us with the TV sitting on the floor a... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 3:42 pm
Bedford Public Library
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Aug 1, 2010, 10:31 am
Title: Stash
Author: David Klein
Publisher: Broadway Books (2010)
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 352
Book Source: ARC from Publisher
When Gwen Rain decides to buy a small bag of marijuana from an old friend she has no idea how this decision will affect her life. It sets off a chain of events that she has lit... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2010, 9:57 am
Title: The Lace Reader: A Novel
Author: Brunonia Barry
Publisher: Harper (2006)
Pages: 385
Genre: Fiction
Book Source: My Own Copy
Towner Whitney comes back to her home town Salem MA because her aunt has disappeared. Towner had run away years ago from all the heavy issues and secrets in her family a... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 9:55 am
Title: Leaving the World
Author: Douglas Kennedy
Publisher: Atria Paperback (2010)
Genre: Fiction
Book Source: Free copy from publisher
Publisher Description:
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never ha... Comment - Like
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Jun 26, 2010, 6:51 pm
Hi everyone,
I have been offered to do a product review for CSN Stores. I normally only review books, but I thought it might be fun to branch out every now and again. I did a book case giveaway for CSN a while ago and it went well, so this time I am going to do a review. My only trouble is choosing ... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2010, 7:14 pm
A Book
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
- By Emily Dickinson Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 7:20 pm
Goffstown Public Library
This library in Goffstown New Hampshire was build in 1909. Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 1:37 pm
Title: A Wedding In December
Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Back Bay Books (2006)
Pages: 352
Genre: Fiction
Book Source: My Own Copy
In A Wedding In December Anita Shreve tells the story of seven former classmates who come together for a weekend to celebrate a wedding between two of there group. Se... Comment - Like
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Jun 16, 2010, 9:08 am
Title: The Wives of Henry Oades
Author: Johanna Moran
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2010)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Book Source: ARC from Publisher
Publisher Book Summary:
When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Welling... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2010, 3:00 pm
We had intended to go hiking in a New Hampshire state Forrest, but today turned out gray and rainy. Not wanting to stay cooped up inside the house all day, we decided to go for a drive out of town anyway even though it wasn't good walking weather.
We turned off onto a dirt logging road and the phot... Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2010, 10:00 am
Title: Conditions of Faith
Author: Alex Miller
Publisher: Scribner (2000)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Book Source: My Own Copy
Dust Jacket Synopsis:
It's 1923 and at age twenty-five, Emily, an Australian, impulsively marries Georges Elder, a French-Scottish engineer ten years her senior. Suddenly she ... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2010, 8:00 am
Title: The Italian Slow Cooker
Author: Michele Scicolone
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010)
Genre: Non-fiction, cookbook
Book Source: Free Advance Reading Copy
This cookbook takes Italian favorites and shows you how to cook them in an electric slow cooker. The sections include: soups, sauce... Comment - Like
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Jun 5, 2010, 7:40 pm
Here is a list of a few book giveaways that I have discovered on other book blogs:
Men & Dogs by Katie Crouch (Audiobook) @ Jo-Jo loves to read - June 19th
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea @ Peeking Between the Pages - July 3rd
April & Oliver by Tess Callahan @ Peeking Between the Page... Comment - Like
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Jun 5, 2010, 3:43 pm
Title: Loving Frank
Author: Nancy Horan
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2008-Trade Paperback)
Genre: Historical fiction
Book Source: My Own Copy
Set in the early 1900's, Loving Frank is the story of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her long term love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Nancy Horan portrays Mamah... Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 7:38 am
"The moral atmosphere of the Tillotson interior was as carefully screened and curtained as the house itself: Mrs. Tillotson senior dreaded ideas as much as a draft in her back."
- From "Souls Belated" a short story by Edith Wharton Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2010, 6:27 pm
Writers On A New England Stage: Margaret Atwood
Coming up in September I am planning to go hear Margaret Atwood speak! I have just finished reading her latest book The Year of the Flood. I am sure that a lot of you have read it. (Leave a comment with your thoughts if you like.) Her dystopian literat... Comment - Like
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May 1, 2010, 9:29 am
Title: Arcadia Falls
Author: Carol Goodman
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2010)
Genre: Fiction
Book Source: Free Advance Reader Edition from Publisher
Meg Rosenthal is a recent widow who has been left with nothing. In order to support herself and her teenage daughter, Sally, she takes a teaching job a... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2010, 1:19 am
Today The Reading Journey is being featured on Scene of the Blog over at Kittling Books, so be sure to check it out! Click on the button below to get there. I have been reading along with this feature for quite a while now and it is always interesting to see the environment in which book bloggers wr... Comment - Like
I have been reading constantly since 4 years of age and I studied literature at university earning a BA and MA. I am from Australia, but am currently living in NH, USA.
Take a look at my blog if you are looking for book reviews. As much as reading preferences are a matter of personal taste, it also helps to get recommendations from someone who can tell a good book from a bad one.
My blog features book from a diverse range of genres and styles because I like to encourage readers to try something they don't normally look for. I even throw in a classic occasionally!
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