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Oh, I have some good finds to share with you this week! First up is a small but wonderful stack of books I picked up at a church Fall Festival this weekend. I exercised great restraint, and at 50 cents a book, got these for less than the price of my Starbucks chai latte:
Where the [...]
Time to check in with MizB at Should Be Reading and share my book finds for the week:
I won a copy of Douglas W. Jacobson’s Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II from Shana at Literarily. This was published in paperback at the beginning of October, and is said to
”paint a vivid and [...]
This weekly meme is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading.
We were away on vacation this week, and a neighbor was taking in our mail/newspapers/packages (and caring for my son’s “pet”, an anole from a fourth grade science unit last year!). Here are some of the goodies I had waiting for me on our return:
Come on [...]
I’d like to let you (and MizB at Should Be Reading) know about some books that came across my front door this week:
I received The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel from Book Club Girl; she’ll be hosting an interview with the author on Wednesday October 22. The book blurb:
“Now we’re just alike.” So begins [...]
I’m checking in with MizB and the folks who read her blog, Should Be Reading. Here’s the list of books that have come into my life this week:
I was a lucky winner of a giveaway that Book Club Girl was running during Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW). There were so many great posts, interviews, giveaways and [...]
It’s been a fairly quiet week for adding books to my bookshelves and my wish list — I have several in my “to be read” stack, so I’ve been trying really hard to “just say NO.” It’s not as easy as Nancy Reagan said it would be …
On Tuesday I went to the Harvard Bookstore with [...]
Is it Friday already!? Must be time to let MizB (and others) know what’s come into my radar, and into my house this week:
Owen Matthews has written a memoir of his family called Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love, War and Survival. The product description for this book calls it “A transcendent history/memoir of one [...]
We were away for the long weekend over Labor Day, so I didn’t post my Friday Finds last week; here’s a quick peek at what I Should Be Reading over the next few weeks:
Ronna Wineberg sent me a copy of her short story collection Second Language. This was published a few years ago, and I’m [...]
It’s that time of the week again! MizB at Should Be Reading asks what new books have joined the groaning bookshelves in the past seven days … Well, memoir is one of my favorite genres to read, and it shows in this list:
I received Wife in the Northby Judith O’Reilly from Book Club Girl. She [...]
It’s that time of the week again! MizB at Should be Reading has organized a weekly round-up of the books that have come into our lives. Here’s my list:
I received an ARC of Laura Claridge’s Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age to review for the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I’m looking forward to learning [...]
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