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Book Review: Lumby On The Air

Synopsis From the Publisher:  Pam and Mark Walker are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with a week-long family reunion and a ceremony renewing their vows. Mark breezily dismisses Pam’s misgiving about temporarily closing Montis Inn and heads off to the county fair, to try his hand at both chainsaw sculpting and sheep shearing, with chaotic [...]

August 17th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Book Challenges | 7 comments

Book Review: Sweet Dreams At The Goodnight Motel

by Curtiss Ann Matlock Mira Books, 2004 My Rating: B So many people have suggested I try a book, any book, by Curtiss Ann Matlock that I finally did. I picked Sweet Dreams At the Goodnight Motel because I liked the cover. I thought it would be a fun, light-hearted read. It was, but I [...]

August 13th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Awesome Authors, B Books, Book Challenges, Kindle | 7 comments

Book Review: Persepolis 2

Persepolis 2: The Story Of A Return by Marjane Satrapi Pantheon Books, 2004 My Rating; B+ In the first Persepolis (I reviewed it last week) the author told us about her childhood in Iran during that country’s Islamic Revolution. Persepolis 2 is the  continuation of her story. This second book covers a ten year period, from [...]

August 12th, 2010 | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Graphic Novels, Library Challenge | 6 comments

Book Review: The Mysterious Mr. Quin

by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930 My Rating: B+ Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Quin are two men featured in the twelve stories compiled into The Mysterious Mr. Quin. The stories were originally published in magazines in England the 1920′s. Each one of the stories is subtle detective work for Mr. Satterthwaite. Not a lot [...]

August 10th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Agatha Christie Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Library Challenge | 12 comments

Book Review: Work Song by Ivan Doig

I first met Morrie Morgan in The Whistling Season. In that book he was the gifted teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. Now, ten years later (1919), Morgan is the main character/narrator of his own story, Work Song. He has just arrived in Butte, Montana to begin a new chapter in his life. Butte is a [...]

August 6th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, A+ Books, Awesome Authors, Book Challenges | 7 comments

Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2003 My Rating: A My Synopsis: This is the story of the author’s childhood in Iran. As the story opens it is 1980 and Marjane is a ten-years-old student learning about the history of her country. Like most students her age she believes what is in the textbooks and what her [...]

August 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, A Book, Book Challenges | 9 comments

Book Tour and Giveaway: Hidden Wives

by Claire Avery A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2010 My Rating: A My Synopsis: Two sisters, Rachel and Sara, share the same father. Rachel’s mother is the first wife and Sara’s mother is his second wife. There are two more wives and numerous children. There is no divorce. They all live in the same house. [...]

July 29th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, A Book, Book Challenges, Books, Women Unbound | 17 comments
 
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