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Do you participate in a book discussion group, whether online or in person? Does your group have a name? What’s the story behind the name? What were you looking for – Alliteration (Bev’s Busy Book Babes)? Identification (The Second Tuesday Reading Group)? Affiliation (Unity High School Book Club)?
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The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (October 14, 2008 )
Hardcover: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0316166294
ISBN-13: 978-0316166294
SheIsTooFondOfBooksRating: 4 Stars
I was given the opportunity to review an Advance Reading Copy of Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict, to be published in October 2008 by Little, Brown and Company. Mystery thrillers are a minority on [...]
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
Publisher: Candlewick (September 11, 2007)
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0763629618
ISBN-13: 978-0763629618
SheIsTooFondOfBooks Rating: 3 Stars
Gregory Maguire’s novel “What-the-Dickens: the Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy” sets the fantasy world of the skibereen (tooth fairies) within the larger framework of children home alone during a severe storm. [...]
Slow Fat Triathlete: Live Your Athletic Dreams in the Body You Have Now by Jayne Williams
Publisher: Da Capo Press (April 7, 2004)
Paperback: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1569244677
ISBN-13: 978-1569244678
SheIsTooFondOfBooks Rating: 5 Stars
Jayne Williams’ book Slow Fat Triathlete provides inspiration for anyone of any athletic ability (or lack thereof) to get off the couch and get moving. With a [...]
I live in Concord, Mass., a town about 20 miles west of Boston. Rich in revolutionary and literary history, it has been home to Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Alcott family. The quote “She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain” is from Work: A Story of [...]
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