A lot of you are in the process of picking your top books for 2009 and many of you are choosing books that came out in 2009. Well, for me… this list is made up of books that I read in 2009. A couple of them (I realize) came out quite a bit before then.
Here [...]
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I have a ton of books calling my name. Books that I just want to read because ‘I’ want to read them. However, review commitments seem to be taking up all my reading time lately so they sit patiently, waiting for me to pick them up. One example is The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I [...]
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Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading. Here’s my one find:
The Day The Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Here’s the blurb from Hyperion’s web site:
1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara [...]
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I’m not a competitive person. I’ve never been athletic but when Dawn from She Is Too Fond of Books asked me if I wanted to be a member of a Game On Diet team, I thought it would be a good way to form some new habits (hopefully good ones).
Jennifer over at Book Club Girl, [...]
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Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading. Here’s my one find:
Strangers by Anita Brookner
Here’s the blurb from Barnes and Noble:
Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow and a doyenne of decorum who, like [...]
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