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TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading and asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” [...]
It’s actually a fairly quiet week, bookish and otherwise, on my calendar this week. That’s a relief, because I can already feel the frenzy of the holiday season around the corner, and it will be nice to relax a bit and catch up on “things” around here! Of course, now that I’ve said that, my [...]
Raise your hand if you’re swearing off the rest of the Halloween candy starting this morning! I’m sending bags of it into the office with my husband (OK, there’s a small stash I’m stowing in our storage freezer … don’t tell the kids!). My healthy attitude will get a boost this morning because I’ll be [...]
Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks
Publisher: White Whisker Books (April 7, 2008 )
Paperback: 172 pages
ISBN-10: 0615188702
ISBN-13: 978-0615188706
I connected with Christopher Meeks when he responded to a post I wrote about the difficulty my book group has had discussing short stories; he wrote an excellent guest post which offered several suggestions on how to approach a [...]
There’s still time to join us in planning “the week ahead”, and to enter to win a Page-A-Day Book Lover’s Calendar. Find the details here:
A snapshot of what may, or may not, happen in my life this week:
Monday – We were away this weekend, so much of my day will be spent recovering from that [...]
MizB at Should Be Reading asks what books have come into our lives this week. Here’s my list:
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt. I’ve already read this book (twice even!), obviously I really like it! My neighborhood book group chose it for our September [...]
Earlier I wrote a post about short stories and the challenges my book group has had when we’ve attempted to discuss them. I was pleased to get a very insightful response from Christopher Meeks, a playwright, columnist, and published author of four children’s books, a novel, and two collections of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and [...]
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