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Julie Klam's forthcoming *Love at First Bark*

Did you read the news that Julie Klam’s forthcoming memoir, Love at First Bark (Riverhead, October 2011), has been named a Top Ten Memoir of Fall by Publisher’s Weekly?!

I (not a dog person!) loved Klam’s You Had Me at Woof, and am looking forward to reading Love at First Bark.

Love at First Bark: How [...]

More kitchen science (kind of)

I’m stretching this one, because LM6 has asked for equal time to show off his Science Fair project. On with the show:

Separating Mixtures

“My sister did this experiment last year when she was in Eighth Grade.  So, it’s a big kid science project, and we just changed it a little bit so I could do [...]

Luck o' the Irish

An Old Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life’s passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!

Lost in a good book

Championship game, Harvard-Princeton, tied 4-4 in overtime.

The kids had moved down to the front row, behind the goal, where all the action was.

Did LW8 have her nosed pressed against the Plexiglass, as she cheered the home team on?

No.

She was glued to a Babysitter’s Club book … the arena could have fell down around her as [...]

Pahk yah cah in ...

Somewhere in Cambridge, a car with the tag YAHD is looking for its mate!

Giveaway: *The Murderer's Daughters* by Randy Susan Meyers

St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan is giving away a copy of Randy Susan Meyers’ The Murderer’s Daughters!  Perfect for book groups, this is now available in paperback, has a discussion guide, and was chosen as a Target Book Club pick … very exciting!

To read more about the novel, and put your name in the hat [...]

Children's Book Review: *I'm Not* by Pam Smallcomb

I’m Not. written by Pam Smallcomb; illustrated by Robert Weinstock
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (December 28, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0375861154

Back-of-the-book blurb: A book for children who feel like their outgoing friend is oh-so-talented . . . and they’re not. Our shy narrator lists all the things that her best friend, Evelyn, is good [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: *River Lights 2nd Edition* in Dubuque, Iowa

I’m not one to make many wagers, but I’d stake money (or books, wine, or chocolate) on the number of you who will be saying

Photo Credit: Joey Wallis

“I want to visit River Lights!” after reading this Spotlight on Bookstores post by author Heather Gudenkauf. Heather even shares how the bookstore in her just-published novel, These [...]

Thought on *Birds of a Feather* by Jacqueline Winspear (audiobook)

Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs, book #2)
Audio CD (9 CDs, about 10.5 hours total)
Publisher: Sound Library; Unabridged edition (June 2005)
ISBN-13: 978-0792736653

Birds of a Feather grabbed me even more than the original Maisie Dobbs.  Although I really enjoyed that first novel – and it gave the background for me to understand Maisie’s [...]

Book Art: The World of the Limitless

In my Sunday Salon post I briefly mentioned an exhibit I had attended with my friend Kristine.  BookArt: The World of the Limitless was at ArtSpace in Maynard, Mass. through January 14, and we were able to find time to visit the exhibit on January 8, which happened to be the afternoon that many of [...]