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Urban Leaving to Country Living
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Book Review: The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
February 7, 2010The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice From Publishers’ Weekly: An impulsive taxi ride with a stranger in 1950s London indelibly changes Penelope Wallace’s life in Rice’s sparkling debut. At 18, Penelope lives with her younger brother, Inigo, and her terribly glamorous, young widowed mother in a drafty, rundown, English estate house in the countryside. With [...]
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Friday 05Feb: The View from My Office Window
February 5, 2010Can you see them? I finally figured out how to enlarge the detail and now I can show you the animals in the field across the road. We see deer there nearly every day. Every delivery person who comes comments on seeing them there. And I often see cars stopping just in front of our [...]
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Book Review: The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page
February 3, 2010The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page This is Book One of the Faith Fairchild series This book is the beginning of a growing list of “Body in the _____” series. Its heroine is Faith Sibley, a native New Yorker who has started a gourmet catering service. She meets and falls in love with Tom [...]
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Ongoing Reading Challenges
February 2, 2010In addition to the challenges that must be completed in 2010, I’ve taken on some more ambitious projects that have no deadline and are ongoing. These are: The Amy Einhorn Perpetual Challenge, to read all books published under the Amy Einhorn imprint. Amy Einhorn started Amy Einhorn Books with the goal of hitting that sweet-spot between [...]
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Book Review: Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors
February 2, 2010Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors From Hilary Hatton at Booklist: It’s the fall of 1942, and the U.S. hospital ship Benevolence is cruising the waters of the South Pacific when it is torpedoed by the Japanese. Only nine people survive, and they eventually wash up on an island: the captain Joshua, and his wife, Isabelle, a [...]
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Four More Reading Challenges for 2010: Battles of the Prizes, Typically British & Canadian Authors
January 29, 2010I know I’ve vowed to join no more challenges this year, but Rose City Reader just posted these first two and they’re only three books each. They run from 01Feb10 to 31Jan11. The Battle of the Prizes American Version pits winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction against the winners of the National Book Award. The first [...]
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Friday Jan29: The View from My Office Window
January 29, 2010We’ve had rain and temps above freezing all week, and last night when I went to bed, there was no snow to be seen. I thought I’d show you a real contrast from last week. Alas, this is what I awoke to. That’s a main highway out there. There’s a wind gusting to 50 mph from [...]
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Book Review: The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff
January 28, 2010The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff From Patty Engelman at Booklist: After working in the Jewish resistance in Kraków, Poland, Marta Nedermann is rescued from a Nazi prison by American soldiers. A simple gesture of human comfort by a soldier named Paul is etched in her mind, and when she sees him again in a camp for displaced [...]
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Book & Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
January 25, 2010The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Graphic novel version by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir; Illustrated by Kevin Cornell When Fitzgerald penned Benjamin Button in 1922, he enthusiastically called it “the funniest story ever written” and hoped to write more pieces like it and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. [...]
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Friday Afternoon Jan22: The View from my Office Window
January 22, 2010The sun is very bright today and the sky achingly blue. I thought you might enjoy this study in shadows, looking north.
