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Read Along Check-In #1: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Woman by Samuel...
When JoAnn at Lakeside Musing and Terri at Tip of the Iceberg announced their idea for a year-long read along of Samuel Richardson’s epic Clarissa, I realized I had my chance to approach a book I knew...
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Weekend Cooking: Super Bowl Entertaining Edition
No need to let the Packers’ and Steelers’ dream-crushing losses keep us from enjoying a perfectly good pseudo event here in Central PA. So tonight we’re having a few friends over to watch ads – and...
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Book Review: Catherine McKenzie’s SPIN
I worked in publishing for about ten years before I went to graduate school. Which is probably why I felt an immediate affinity for Catherine McKenzie’s debut novel Spin. When writer Kate Sandford got...
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Book Review: SONOMA ROSE by Jennifer Chiaverini
Normally, I am a person who hates to come into a book series in the middle. So I’m going to admit to being a little worried when Jennifer Chiaverini’s Sonoma Rose arrived and I saw the subtitle: An Elm...
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Venice in February: Balzac’s Massimilla Doni and Corona’s The Four Seasons
In eighteenth and nineteenth century Venice, music was an obsession, marriage was a part-time occupation, and love was a spectator sport. Ironically, I read two books written more than 150 years apart...
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Read Along Check in #2: Clarissa, or the History of a Young Woman by Samuel...
Well, after a slow start, things are starting to heat up in Clarissa’s world. She has been dragged with little warning from her friend Miss Howe’s home because her family learned that Lovelace (her...
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Shhhh! This week I will be catching up on my reading in a quiet, much photographed location. I'll be back -- and recharged -- next week! Hope you all have a lovely week of reading ahead.
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Saturday Snapshot: Gone hikin'
Red Rock Cairns, Fay Canyon, AZSaturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate, post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to...
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Book Review: TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG by Connie Willis
Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog introduces readers to a near future when Oxford historians routinely travel through time for investigative purposes. Their work is underwritten by a wealthy,...
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Book Review: ENCHANTMENTS by Kathryn Harrison
How does a teenager process the fact that her beloved father’s murder signals the death knell of the world she’s known? What part of her old world can she take with her into the ominous new one? And...
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Book Review: R.L. Prendergast's DINNER WITH LISA
I grew up with my father’s stories of the Great Depression. Only it never seemed so depressing at all. My father was part of a huge Irish-American family, growing up among some 30 cousins in New York...
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Book Review: Angela Davis Gardner's BUTTERFLY'S CHILD
Very few people can have watched the tragic end of the famed opera, Madama Butterfly, without wondering what happened to the little boy she loved and hoped to protect through her own suicide, placing...
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Weekend "Cooking" in China
Hi, Blogging Buddies, and sorry for my long silence. Many of you know that we're traveling in China this month, which has definitely put a dent in my reviewing -- but has expanded my eating horizons...
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Book Review: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
I love historical fiction with big female characters. And that’s what Susan Vreeland serves up with Clara and Mr. Tiffany, her homage to the “New Independent Woman” who ran the women’s design studio...
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Book Review: THE CONCUBINE SAGA by Lloyd Lofthouse
I have to confess: I read Lloyd Lofthouse’s The Concubine Saga, while I was teaching in China and I really think my review is impacted by that fact. The saga tells the story of Robert Hart, a low-level...
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Book Review: Pamela Haag's MARRIAGE CONFIDENTIAL
I was looking for a non-fiction title when I got this book description for review for Pamela Haag’s Marriage Confidential: With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where...
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Guest Post: Olivia Boler's THE FLOWER BOWL SPELL
Being hosted by Col Reads is such a treat. Thank you so much for having me as a guest blogger today and for bringing some attention to my new novel The Flower Bowl Spell, available as an ebook and in...
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Weekend Cooking Book Review: Tamar Adler's AN EVERLASTING MEAL
If I told you that I might never make a recipe from a cookbook I’d read faithfully, you’d think it was a flop, wouldn’t you? So if I then told you that this has become one of my favorite books,...
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Book Review: EQUAL OF THE SUN by Anita Amirrezvani
Growing up one of my best friends had a dad from Iran. Only the family never referred to it as Iran. They referred to themselves as “Persian.” Over the years, spending time at their house, “Persian”...
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Weekend Cooking Book Review: WEEKNIGHTS WITH GIADA
Confession: I didn’t have the best experience with my first Giada de Laurentis cookbook, Giada’s Family Dinners. The dishes I tried came out fine, but almost everything was in the “Weekend Cooking”...
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