May 2010

Teaser Tuesday: Kathryn’s Beach

May 25, 2010

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Each week participants open to a random page in the book they are currently reading and share two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, being careful not to include spoilers, i.e. too much information that would ruin the experience of reading the […]

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Book Review: The Season of Second Chances

May 23, 2010

When my boys were younger, they referred to it as a “do-over” — an opportunity to give something another try with the hope of achieving a better outcome. I usually heard the term during an argument about a game they were playing together. One of them — or one of their friends — would be […]

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Teaser Tuesday: The Season of Second Chances

May 18, 2010

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Book Review: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

May 15, 2010

I cannot remember where I was or what I was doing when I first heard about Wicked, Gregory Maguire’s best-known novel. But I vividly recall my reaction: I realized that I, like most children, had always just accepted the characters in The Wizard of Oz as they were. By that moment, I’m sure I had […]

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Teaser Tuesday: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

May 11, 2010

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Book Review: Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go

May 7, 2010

Lucille O’Neal is a few years older than me, but we are contemporaries — Baby Boomers who grew up during the turbulent 1960’s, she on the East Coast, while I am, for all intents and purposes, a native Californian. (My parents moved from South Dakota to Lodi when I was just six months old.) Like […]

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Book Review: Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas

May 5, 2010

Sometimes it’s fun to just spend the day reading. So I did that recently on a perfect spring day. There was a light breeze, it was about 75 degrees outside, and I opened up all of the doors and windows to give the house a good, old-fashioned spring airing-out. I made a pot of coffee, […]

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Book Review: Keeping Faith

May 1, 2010

I did not want to close the book and put it back into my bag. But I had no choice: The plane was landing at JFK and, along with my two sons, I was about to embark on a five-day adventure in New York City — that included a performance at Carnegie Hall — for […]

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