Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 25, 2011, 7:57 pm
212 by Alafair Burke... When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her — but thanks to the anonymity provide...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 17, 2011, 6:56 pm
Welcome to The Sunday Salon! Another beautiful Sunday here in Connecticut. I'm on vacation and relaxing a bit. I was also able to make a trip to my favorite Indie Bookshop! The Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, CT. It's about a 40 minute drive, which means I don't go there too often, but j...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 15, 2011, 8:47 am
"Violet set out from the little white house walking, but, when the pains came, she was brought to her knees. Watching the puffs of her breath make steam, she willed herself not to make a sound, not to give in to this sensation that wanted to strand her and her baby on this lonely road."I Gave My Hea...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 11, 2011, 5:48 am
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn... What Publisher's Weekly said of Moby-Duck: Whimsical curiosity begets a quixotic odyssey and troubling ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 10, 2011, 10:24 am
Good Morning! It's Sunday! And it's time for The Sunday Salon! It's been a few weeks of resolving all the "hacking" problems, which lead me to concentrate on administrative problems rather than having fun reading and reviewing, but finally I put the final touches on all that. And thanks to the reade...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 7, 2011, 9:21 pm
" Meena Harper knew things, things no one else knew...things no one could know. One of those things was that the man sitting in the car beside her was going to die..." Overbite by Meg Cabot, is the 2nd in her paranormal series where we find Meena Harper who can predict how you are going to die, ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jul 1, 2011, 7:58 pm
"He stands in a corridor. He has been there for nearly an hour. For many this would feel like the final imposition, the last straw, the bitter end: something to ignite crimson threads of anger in the brain and provoke a tumble backward into the pit of clotted fury the consigned from here in the firs...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jun 22, 2011, 7:22 pm
Well, it's been a long week or so... I caught a virus of some sort... not me personally, but my computer! All sorts of funky things have been going on as I tried to post, work other applications on my Macintosh and then even use my iPhone and iPad! All my info got dumped from my contacts lists on bo...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jun 12, 2011, 11:54 am
It's Sunday! Time to relax and take it easy! Open a good book and have a cup of Joe! Sometimes life gets in the way of reading & blogging, and my time has been spent in the throws of that the last few weeks. Now though, as things have settled down, I'm back to say hello and to say I've missed you! B...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jun 10, 2011, 9:21 pm
"Tanya Abbott noticed the quiver in her index finger as it pressed the three silver buttons in the rain-- 9... 1... 1. Listening to the ring, she found herself mentally calculating the number of days that had passed since she had first arrived in New York City. Tanya had put the number at twenty-s...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Jun 3, 2011, 11:02 am
"ISO, TIME FOR - Eliza Benedict paused at the foot of the stairs. Time for what, exactly? All summer long - it was now August - Eliza had been having trouble finding the right words. Not complicated ones, the things required to express strong emotions or abstract concepts, make difficult confession...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 27, 2011, 6:01 am
"Most of the blood left on the concrete floor of the garage in Washington belonged to the big black investigator working for Madriani, the man named Herman Diggs, but not all of it..."Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini, coming 5/31! Steve Martini fans rejoice! Defense attorney Paul Madriani is back...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 24, 2011, 7:55 pm
When We Danced on Water by Evan Fallenberg... Have you ever been surprised by a book?! Thought it would be about something and it turned out to be something totally different? Something that burst with a story that faintly resembled what it started as? That's what happened as I turned the pages of W...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 20, 2011, 6:45 am
Being drunk in front of your child is right up there on the Big Bad No-no List of Motherhood. I knew what I was doing was wrong. I knew it with every glass, every swallow, every empty bottle thrown into the recycle bin. I hated drinking. I hated it,,, and I couldn't stop...Best Kept Secret by Amy Ha...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 19, 2011, 5:34 am
Philip Roth wins The Man Booker International Prize! What is The Man Booker International Prize? It's the literary award presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published "originally in English or widely available in translation in the English language." The prize is wor...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 16, 2011, 5:43 am
I really had to look twice to make sure that this was indeed a true story even though its description reads like an fictional adventure. But that is what caught my attention with this one... Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff is a story that sounds so amazing that it's hard to believe it's true....
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 15, 2011, 10:53 am
Welcome to the Sunday Salon! Grab a cup of joe, sit back and relax! It's the day of the week where we get together to chat about all the bookish things we've read, seen and done! This week was Read Like a Mother Week at Chick with Books, where we reviewed and highlighted books books that showcase wo...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 13, 2011, 6:02 pm
The Wall's down and I'm stuck. It's always been like that. Not the Wall, of course. It only fell two weeks ago. But me. I've always been stuck. In a crack. And I can't get out. If someone ever decided to make a movie about my life, they'd call it The Girl Who Lived in a Crack...Wallflower by Holly-J...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 12, 2011, 1:36 pm
I just love the writing of Margaret Mallory! She never, and I really mean it, never disappoints me! Her characters are made up of strong women, hunky guys and stories that sweep you off your feet into a time and place that are so well described that you feel that you've lived there all your life... ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 11, 2011, 5:40 am
Ann Brashares Gets it! She writes with such beauty about the emotions of young girls. I'm referring to her books in the series of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which took us into the friendship of four young girls, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget, and their "coming-of-age", with all the e...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 9, 2011, 7:08 pm
Our first book for "Read Like a Mother week" is a Memoir, Two Kisses for Maddy by Matt Logelin, which is a love story and the story of the devastating loss of new mom & wife of Matt, Liz, just 27 hours after the birth of her daughter. Matt poured his heart out in a blog, which became an amazing supp...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 8, 2011, 6:57 pm
Happy Mother's Day! To all the Mother's, Grandmother's, Daughters, Sisters, Aunts, and girlfriends this day is YOUR day! No matter if you've given birth, as women we are nurturers. We are born with the innate ability to comfort, show empathy, and know when just a smile is needed. So this day is for ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 7, 2011, 5:16 am
Dear Anna,What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry… The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her callin...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 6, 2011, 6:02 am
"Glen Jamison looked every one of his fifty-two years, his fair hair flecked with silver, his aristocratic face mournful, his six-foot-two frame too thin. He hunched at the desk in his study and felt a sense of panic, like the beginnings of a fire flickering at his feet then billowing to an inferno....
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - May 2, 2011, 9:41 pm
What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell by Suzanne Marrs... Here's what Publisher's Weekly wrote: While Welty and her New Yorker editor Maxwell were contemporaries, he 34, she 33 when they first met at a New York literary party in 1942, they seemed t...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 29, 2011, 4:51 pm
"Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and be...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 25, 2011, 6:19 am
With so many celebrity "tell alls" in the memoir department, sometimes lesser known memoirists get lost in the crowd. When I stumbled upon Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugu wa Thiong'O , first the cover caught my eye, and then the title. I vaguely remembered the author - one of his books,The River Be...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 22, 2011, 9:45 pm
Song of The Silk Road by Minmei Yip... As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert - its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt s...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 22, 2011, 9:30 pm
"Once upon a time there were twelve Princesses... My voice surprises me. It's perfectly steady, the voice of a normal mother on a normal day-- as though everything is just the same as it always was...." The Soldiers Wife by Margaret Leroy, coming June 28th, 2011When I opened up this book and starte...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 18, 2011, 6:36 pm
Endgame by Frank Brady... Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some of his most dramatic triump...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 17, 2011, 12:09 pm
Welcome to the Sunday Salon! This is the day during the week where we get together and talk books! So grab a cup of joe, find a comfy chair and relax! What bookish things have you been doing this week? Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? Do you read poetry? As a Reader when we think of...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 17, 2011, 8:35 am
Hey, What happened to this post? Some glitch in the word processing in Blogger, so I had to redo the post, which meant deleting the post. BUT, I didn't want to delete such kind comments by Mason Canyon of Thoughts in Progress and Small World at Home! Thank you for the nice comments on The Sunday Sal...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 16, 2011, 5:25 am
I recently had the privilege to read an advance copy of Song of The Silk Road by Mingmei Yip, which is a wonderful book, full of adventure & romance along the famous Silk Road. (Catch my review next Saturday, April 23rd) Mingmei Yip is the author of two other wonderful books that also bring the flav...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 15, 2011, 5:53 am
The first machines on the site were the wreckers, like steel dinosaurs, plucking and pulling at the houses with jaws that ripped off chimneys, shingles, dormers, and eaves, clapboard and brick and stone and masonry, beams and stairs and balconies and joists, headers and doorjambs. Old dreams, dead a...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 14, 2011, 5:27 am
April 14th is National Poem in Your Pocket Day! The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, a...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 11, 2011, 6:23 pm
In Stitches by Anthony Youn, M.D. ....Scrubs meets David Sedaris in this hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon. Dr. Tony Youn grew up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town where diversity was uncommon. Too tall and too thin, he...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 8, 2011, 8:41 am
"The body was blue. Not merely wearing blue, he was blue -- and not the blue pallor of death. He was sapphire from head to toe, a deep shade of mood indigo." Shot Through Velvet by Ellen Byerrum,part of her Crime of Fashion Mystery series
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 6, 2011, 5:08 am
Have you been waiting patiently to read those Harry Potter books because the thought of carrying around an 800 page tombe, and a YA novel at that, was just too much, and you thought maybe someday J.K. Rowling would relent and allow her books to be published electronically?! Well, your wait may be ov...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 4, 2011, 6:29 am
Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalván "We aren't just service dog and master; Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers. Whatever you want to call it. We weren't made for each other, but we turned out to be exactly what the other needed." A highly decorated captain in the U.S. ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 3, 2011, 11:23 am
Welcome to The Sunday Salon! It is BEAUTIFUL weather finally in Connecticut! I am done with winter! How about you?! We heated up the end of the winter a little this week with some romance, but for the start of Spring, which "officially" came over a week ago (with the prediction of a Nor' easter that...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Apr 1, 2011, 5:50 am
"I turned the key and opened the door to the apartment that was my home.Christopher must have sent Lucinda home for the weekend. The lacquered clock chimed six thirty as I closed the apartment door behind me, my heels clicking and pivoting on the hardwood. I knew he could have heard my key turn out ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 31, 2011, 5:09 pm
I love generational stories! Especially those that involve women. A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei is just that - a story of 6 women, 3 generations and their journey to discover the China that they were born from, but also to discover a part of themselves that was forgotten. From the Publisher: When ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 31, 2011, 5:19 am
I'm chasing the cold away this week with some hot reads! Today I want to share with you It Happened One Bite by Lydia Dare... Blaire Lindsay has been warned that her ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands is haunted. But it will take more than tales of fictional ghosts to frighten Blaire, a battl...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 29, 2011, 5:46 am
Legacy by Jeanette Baker... When a distant relative bequeaths a Scottish castle to Christina Murray, the beautiful college professor is off to a distant land to claim her inheritance. It is there that she meets Ian Douglas, a breathtakingly handsome man who may hold the key to the secrets of Traquai...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 28, 2011, 5:45 am
My Korean Deli : Risking It All For A Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe... "It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. T...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 27, 2011, 10:54 am
Welcome to The Sunday Salon! Grab a cup of joe, relax, and let's talk about books! Yes, after a hectic week of "this and that", it's time to sit back and reflect on what we've been able to squeeze in this week, the far off places we've visited as we immersed ourselves into the written page... This ...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 26, 2011, 5:51 am
iZombie Written by Chris Roberson, Drawn by Michael Allred What's a girl to do?! Gwen Dylan digs graves for a living, her best friend Ellie is a girl from the 60's who happens to be a ghost, and her other friend Scott is of the furrier persuasion, a.k.a Were-Terrier... kind of an off shoot of a Wer...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 25, 2011, 6:25 am
"Everyone has a story but I was never interested in telling my own. I was an editor of book, not a writer. I loved to find sense in someone else's chaos, uncover the intent of a sentence or paragraph that only hunted at a truth. At least that was how I felt until I met Sandy Portman. The first ti...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 22, 2011, 5:39 am
Are you a fan of Haruki Murakami? Then you need to pick up this weeks The New Yorker Magazine! Haruki Murakami writes fiction filled with bits of surrealism and humor; themes dealing with isolation and loneliness. And somehow he is able to open up his characters and show us parts of ourselves. His w...
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Suzanne Levin posted an article on Chick with Books - Mar 21, 2011, 6:01 am
Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public radio’s Marketplace) researched the country about which h...
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