When I learned that Beth Hoffman’s Saving CeeCee Honeycutt had been selected for the first Sam’s Club Book Club, I was so excited! I had read an early copy of the novel, and knew that this warm southern story deserved a big spotlight – this connection with Sam’s Club would help do that. I emailed [...]
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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson I’m pleased to welcome my friend Denise as a guest blogger today! Denise left the corporate world to return to school for an advanced degree, and is now working in the alternative program at a local high school. She is the mother [...] Swimsuit (audio) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro My neighbor Sherry is back with another audiobook review. I think this might be a good candidate for a treadmill audio for me – lots of action (OK, gruesome murders) to keep me moving, [...] Welcome to Banned Books Week! The American Library Association is celebrating the freedom to read, September 26 – October 3, 2009. Read all about Banned Books Week at the ALA website. I’ve invited David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Love is the Higher Law to write a guest post [...] Tom DeWolf (photo credit Deborah Howe) 2009 will surely be remembered as a year chock-full of “teachable moments” about race in the United States. Our nation’s first black president nominated the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court. Charges of racism in connection with both a Philadelphia swim club’s banning of a minority day care [...] This Young Adult pick is reviewed by our eldest daughter, LW13. Airhead was one of the newly-released paperbacks I brought home from BEA in May. When LW13 picked it up and asked, “Can I read this!?!” I answered: “Sure! If you review it”. The motivation worked! She has selected several other books from my TBR [...] I’m pleased to offer this guest post written by Meg Wolitzer, a Manhattanite and the author of eight novels, including The Position, The Wife, and The Ten-Year Nap (review). Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. (Photo credit: Jennifer S. Altman for the New York Times)
She’s baa-aack! LW12 returns to review the third book in Shelly Adina’s “All About Us” series. This one is “hot off the presses” and was just published January 2nd! Be Strong and Curvaceous by Shelley Adina Back of the Book Blurb: After spending spring break in Mexico [...] Today’s “Spotlight on Bookstores” is written by John Addiego, author of The Islands of Divine Music. John calls this essay “A Special Bookstore”; I think his opening comments echo the way many book-lovers feel in today’s economy. It’s an apt thesis, illustrated by his Spotlight on Grass Roots Books & Music. My niece Nicole wrote this review of Last Child in the Woods; I haven’t yet read the book, but will be adding it to my Friday Finds: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Nicole’s Review: Last Child in [...] |
 
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