Who is Too Fond of Books? I’m Dawn, welcome to my book blog! This is the place for book reviews, author interviews, giveaways, Spotlight on Bookstores series, bookish musings, and news from the publishing world.
If you’d like to respond to something written here, start a conversation, or want to get in touch about scheduling a review, interview, giveaway, etc., please leave a comment on any post, or send me an e-mail.
I’ve been talking about …
|
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway (March 9, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0767929820
Back-of-the-book blurb: Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her earlier memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty [...]
The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 10, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0547248066
Back-of-the-book blurb: It all started when 14-year old Hannah Salwen, idealistic but troubled by a growing sense of injustice in the world, had a eureka moment when a homeless [...]
Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return by Vera and Donald Blinken
Hardcover: 350 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press (February 5, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1438426631
Back-of-the-book blurb: Vera and the Ambassador is both a compelling portrait of a U.S. embassy in a post-Cold War former Soviet satellite and a personal story of a refugee’s escape and triumphant [...]
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman; read by the author
Abridged Audiobook (7 CDs, approximately 8 hours)
Publisher: Hachette Audio Group (3/24/09)
ISBN: 9781600244483
Back-of-the-box blurb: In 1986, Susie and her friend Claire, fresh-faced graduates from Brown University, were inspired by a placemat entitled “Pancakes of Many Nations” to depart on an epic trip [...]
Lopsided: A Memoir by Meredith Norton
Paperback: 211 pages
Publisher: Penguin (May 26, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311563-2
Back-of-the-Book Blurb: By the age of thirty -four , Meredith Norton had been a hymnal editor, art restorer, game-show producer, and a public school teacher. She’d even lived in a tree house and shepherded goats in Minorca. But none of these unusual experiences [...]
TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading; I’ve modified this version to allow more than two sentences from anywhere on the page:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us a “teaser” sentences from that page. Please share the title of the book that you’re getting your [...]
The Center of the Universe: A Memoir by Nancy Bachrach
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf (April 28, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0307270900
Back-of-the-book blurb: Nancy Bachrach is living in Paris, selling deodorant to the French, when a freak accident kills her father aboard his cabin cruiser, the aptly dubbed “Mr. Fix It”, in her incongruously named hometown of Providence. Her mother, [...]
Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Plume (January 27, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0452290006
Back of the book blurb: After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this … debut memoir [...]
They’re at it again! Hachette Audio is giving away THREE copies of Susan Jane Gilman’s Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven. This abridged audiobook is read by the author herself … listen to an excerpt.
Here’s a tease from the publisher:
In 1986, Susie and her friend Chloe, fresh-faced graduates from Brown University, were inspired by a [...]
Last Monday (October 20, 2008) I had the opportunity to attend a reading and discussion with Christina Thompson, author of the memoir/history Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, which is “an improbable cross-cultural love story between a Maori man and an an American woman, and the fascinating history that connects them.”
Thompson’s [...]
|
She is too fond of … these authors:
|
Hot topics ...