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booknaround.blogspot.com - 4 hours ago
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I tend to pick romances up when I
am overly stressed or just completely overbooked with things...
to do. They satisfy me at these sorts of times because I need something that will read quickly for a sense of accomplishment and that will end happily ever after. Their very predictability calls to ...
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Review: Enchanting Pleasures by Eloisa James
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booknaround.blogspot.com - 25 hours ago
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With a little help from Random.org , we
have winners in the Black Friday drawing for Michelle...
de Kretser's The Lost Dog. T winners, who didn't even have to get out of bed and brave the crowds on the busiest shopping day of the year (and get to gift themselves to boot), are: Jonita Bitsy Susan ...
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Doggone Exciting!
booknaround.blogspot.com - 26 hours ago
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What was I thinking, keeping a book full
of statistics and a 1991 publishing date on my...
shelf for so long? Better yet, what was I thinking buying a book that is nothing more than a compilation of statistics in the first place? Did I not look at it in the bookstore? I have to believe that I ...
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Review: The Great Divide by Daniel Evan Weiss
booknaround.blogspot.com - 29 hours ago
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On my travels through the blogging world, I
find many books that pique my interest. I always...
add them to my wish list immediately but I tend to forget who deserves the blame credit for inspiring me to add them to my list (and to whom my husband would like to send the bill when I get around to ...
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Saturday Shout-Out
booknaround.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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India has long held a fascination for me.
Having had the good fortune to visit, it continues...
to intrigue me and so I often search out Indian-set novels. This particular novel was on my radar because it combines my interest in India with the genre of historical fiction so I was pleased as punch ...
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Review: East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
booknaround.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Just days before she is supposed to marry
her famous soap star fiance, Jandy Taylor (aka Jane...
Halli aka January Day Halli) postpones their wedding and leaves town to collect her thoughts. Jandy borrows her grandfather's ancient truck and starts driving east. When the truck breaks down in a ...
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Review: A Coventry Wedding by Becky Cochrane
booknaround.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Fil (Philomena Desdemona Brown, daughter of two professors)
is happy living with her best guy friend and...
hanging out with two more of her sci-fi obsessed friends. She's the main artist on her very favorite comic book, Girl From Mars, and is content with the way her life is going. When one of ...
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Review: Girl From Mars by Julie Cohen
booknaround.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Reading at the Beach is hosting A-Z Wednesday
where bloggers take the time to highlight one book...
that starts with the letter of the day. This week is the letter Q. Several years ago I read Being Dead by Jim Crace. That book had a subject matter that is so far from my comfort level most ...
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A-Z Wednesday
booknaround.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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This book has been on my shelves literally
for years. And I think the reason it languished...
there for so long was that I didn't really have a proper idea of what it was about, having been handed the book at a bookcrossing meet-up so many years ago. But I am grateful that I had not yet learned ...
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Review: The Bloody War, Mate by John Mantle
booknaround.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Flannery O'Connor once said, "anything that comes out
of the South is going to be called grotesque...
by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic." This is nowhere more true than here in Alabama author Franklin's short story collection. I am, ...
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Review: Poachers by Tom Franklin
booknaround.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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This meme is hosted by J. Kaye at
J. Kaye's Book Blog . A busy week all...
around, I read a bunch, reviewed some, and generally stayed on top of things for the most part. Amazing really! I even managed to buy a whole slew of books as gifts for my hapless young to find in their stockings a couple ...
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?
booknaround.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Another week of being very good and having
a rather forlorn mailbox for me. The good news...
is that I wasn't so good that it was empty of anything besides bills though. It's so delightful to win a contest to keep the mailbox from being the purveyor of doom and gloom (bill central), especially in ...
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Monday Mailbox
booknaround.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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It's been a busy week here. Of course,
there was the influx of family for Thanksgiving, which...
was preceded by a flurry of cooking and cleaning. More cooking than cleaning, I'm afraid. Then we all stuffed ourselves shamefully. (But I'm not a half bad cook so it was at least tasty gluttony: ...
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Sunday Salon: Decorating
booknaround.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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After opening with main character Pete Dizinoff directly
addressing the reader from his altered circumstances: living over...
the garage in what used to be his son's apartment while his son and wife live in the family home just yards away, this novel conceals much of itself while only slowly ...
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Review: A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
booknaround.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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It probably takes an odd duck to think
that traveling to Antarctica would be simply amazing. I...
am that odd duck. I would love to one day visit this ice bound continent. And that's not likely to happen any time soon so reading about someone who did make that trip is next best. And if I'm an odd ...
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Review: Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
