Inspired by a recent Weekly Geeks, I decided to write a post about authors from my home. Since I couldn’t find any well known authors from Bermuda, I decided to write about authors from my adopted home of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy was born in Georgia, but moved to Beaufort, South Carolina at the age [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 29, 2009
Review: The Tell-Tale Heart
When Vance saw that I won The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time, edited by Leslie Powell, he told me that I needed to read “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. It took me several months to get around to it, but I finally read it. The story is told by an unnamed [...]
May 28, 2009
Country Goes to Town
I’m so excited because Carl and I are heading to the Big Apple today! It’s going to be like country goes to town when we get there. I’ve been wanting to go to New York for years, but could never convince Carl that it’s a trip he’d enjoy. When I saw that Book Expo America [...]
May 27, 2009
Review and Blog Tour: Mating Rituals of the North American WASP
Best friends Peggy Adams and Bex Sabes-Cohen own a shop that sells bath products in New York City. They travel to Las Vegas to attend a friend’s bachelorette party and Peggy wakes up the next morning in a strange man’s hotel room. Peggy’s mortified and hurries out of the room as quickly as she can. [...]
May 27, 2009
Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. Feel free to join in the fun.
My words for this week came from Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton.
1. fecundity – “As if stepping between Bex and a stroller could shield [...]
May 26, 2009
Review: Aleutian Sparrow
I listened to the audio version of Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse on a recent trip. I found the story hard to follow, so I’m providing the back of the box blurb:
In June of 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people [...]
May 25, 2009
The Turnaround Winner
My giveaway of The Turnaround by George Pelecanos ended at midnight last night. I used random.org to determine the winner and it is Heather! I’ll email her and get the book off to her as soon as I have her address. Congratulations to Heather and thanks to all who entered.
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Don’t forget to enter my giveaway [...]
May 25, 2009
Mailbox Monday
A big thank you to Marcia of The Printed Page for hosting this fun meme. If you want to play along or see what everyone else got, head over to her blog. These are the books I received last week:
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Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan from Barnes & Noble First Look Book Club
My May [...]
May 24, 2009
Review: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
In the early 1900s, Turner Buckminster had just moved from Boston to Phippsburg, Maine and didn’t feel like he fit in. Everything’s different and no one could forget that his father’s the local minister. Turner longed for Boston, until he met Lizzie Bright Griffin. Lizzie is a young black girl who lived on Malaga Island [...]
May 23, 2009
Review: The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan grew up quite the “Daddy’s Girl.” Her father, George, is one of those characters who everyone loves – the kind of person who never meets a stranger. In 2004, Kelly was a happily married mother of two, comfortable in the middle place – “that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.” While [...]
