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Getting in Shape to Live: The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass (Audio)
Audiobook Review The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass – like her first novel, Three Junes – takes characters from different generations of an extended family and explores their interactions with each...
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We Need to Talk About Daniel: The Good Father by Noah Hawley
In the first two pages of The Good Father, a novel in the form of a father’s memoir by Noah Hawley, Dr. Paul Allen summarizes, as if for a case study, the activities of his twenty-year-old son Daniel...
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Waiting on Wednesday — The Beginner’s Goodbye
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:...
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Time Capsule of Love: The Twoweeks by Larry Duberstein
The Twoweeks by Larry Duberstein is written artfully, almost archly, in onion-like layers. The beginning and ending form the outer layer, which wraps around the book; the beginning makes a lot more...
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Guilty English Pleasure: More Than You Know by Penny Vincenzi
English author Penny Vincenzi‘s books are like granola bars – not much more nutritious than candy, but their mini chocolate chips and tiny marshmallows or sweetened dried cranberries satisfy a candy...
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Art Geeks and Gardner Freaks: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
With its intriguingly tangled plot and multiple timelines, The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro is an entertaining peek into a fictionalized Boston art world – contemporary artists, dealers, and collectors –...
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Fast Times in Navel, Utah: Yikes! Another Quirky Audio Book by Adele Park
For Yikes! Another Quirky Audio Book, a send-up of reality shows, bestselling authors, sex addict editors, and potheads (among other things), longtime radio personality and writer Adele Park, writer...
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7 Audiobooks for Winter Holiday Reading
Looking for audiobooks to listen to while you wrap gifts, bake cookies, or drive around to stores for last-minute shopping? You could always go with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (I like the...
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2012 TBR Pile Challenge Fail
I failed miserably in my first attempt at Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge this year. To meet the challenge, I had to read and review twelve books that had been on my “To Be Read” list for over a...
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Do the Right Thing: A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
Most of the way through A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee I was thinking Jonathan Dee’s previous book was The Imperfectionists, but finally realized The Privileges was the book I should have been...
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I failed miserably in my second attempt at Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge in 2013, even worse than I did in 2012. To meet this challenge, I had to read and review twelve books [...]
View Article2012 TBR Pile Challenge Fail
I failed miserably in my first attempt at Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge this year. To meet the challenge, I had to read and review twelve books that had been on my “To Be Read” list for over a...
View ArticleDo the Right Thing: A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
Most of the way through A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee I was thinking Jonathan Dee’s previous book was The Imperfectionists, but finally realized The Privileges was the book I should have been...
View Article2013 TBR Pile Challenge Fail & 2014 Attempt
I failed miserably in my second attempt at Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge in 2013, even worse than I did in 2012. To meet this challenge, I had to read and review twelve books that had been on...
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