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Author Event: Paula McLain

August 14, 2015

  I may not be in tip-top writing form but I did decide I needed to get some bookish mojo back and what better way than to go to an author event. I haven’t been to one in 8 months so when I saw that Paula McLain was going to be at a local store I knew it was serendipity, because I loved her book. I liked The Paris Wife but I loved Circling the Sun. I’m so glad I ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: authors, book store, event

Picture This

August 12, 2015

normal

It’s been said by some (mostly my husband and my mother) that I read A LOT. That I can then write about it is even more confounding to them. It’s always been difficult, but in that great way that anything worthwhile is. When I can find the right words to convey to a reader what it is about a particular book that moved me or made me think, it is the best feeling in the world. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: lists, writing

Circling the Sun: A Novel

August 10, 2015

circling the sun

I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as real as anything else, though, and I’ll have to fly through them. Straight through the sickening dips and air pockets, because you can’t chart a course around anything you’re ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, South Africa, women

The New Neighbor

August 7, 2015

new neighbor

  At 91 Margaret Riley lives a life of isolation on the shore of a small lake in the mountains of Tennessee. Across the lake is another house that has stood empty for years since its owner died but suddenly fills with life again as Jennifer and her 4-year-old son move in. The New Neighbor is Leah Stewart’s novel about Margaret and her sudden fascination with her new ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, Touchstone

Crooked Heart

August 5, 2015

crooked heart

  Noel is a ten-year-old who has been living with his godmother in London, until she dies. He moves in with her nephew and his wife but they are not well suited for a child of Noel’s personality and use the excuse of the impending war to send him to the suburbs to live with a foster family. Vera Sedge is the frazzled woman who sees Noel less as a child to be helped and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Harper, historical fiction, London, WWII

The Ambassador’s Wife

August 3, 2015

ambassador's wife

Miranda is a free-spirited artist and explorer living in Mazrooq, a country that is not open to either. That she also has a girlfriend makes her the most suspect of women, right up until she meets Finn, the British ambassador who steals her heart and gives her a life considered by all around her to be safe and normal. This not a romance novel—far from it. It is Jennifer Steil’s ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Doubleday, Middle East

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