January 2011

Book Review: I’d Know You Anywhere

January 28, 2011

Synopsis: Eliza Benedict has found happiness in her marriage to Peter, and as a mother to daughter Isobel and son Albie. Recently, the Benedict family has returned to the U.S. after living in England for several years. Peter, a journalist, has sequed into a financial career, and the family is settling into its new home, […]

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Book Review: Half in Love

January 25, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide Synopsis: At a very young age, author Linda Gray Sexton became her mother’s protector and guardian, entering into a relationship she would later describe as both codependent and symbiotic. The oldest of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ann Sexton’s two daughters, Linda […]

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Guest Post: The Business of Writing Memoir

January 24, 2011

Linda Gray Sexton is the author of the just-released memoir, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, as well as Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, which is being reissued in April 2011. Today, I am honored to welcome her to Colloquium! Linda is the eldest daughter of […]

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Book Review: Caroline’s Choice

January 23, 2011

Synopsis: Caroline Frankston has been in love with Matt Haynes for eleven years. The daughter of the mayor of Barton Creek and his unpopular wife, Charlotte, Caroline is pretty, kind, and intelligent. But in 1907 Oklahoma, on the verge of becoming a state any day, an unmarried twenty-seven-year-old woman is in serious danger of becoming […]

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Book Review: Pairs

January 21, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Pairs Synopsis: Kaylie is a single mother to little Terra, who, at four years of age, is extremely intuitive. Perhaps even psychic. Kayley writes greeting card verses for a living, and recites poetry appropriate for any occasion. Her house needs to be remodeled, so Adam […]

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Guest Post, Review and Giveaway: Resurrecting Anthony

January 18, 2011

When asked if I would be interested in reading and reviewing Resurrecting Anthony: A True Story of Courage & Destination, I immediately and enthusiastically said, “Yes.” My response was based upon both my professional and personal experiences. The Wendland Case I devoted six years to litigating the case of Conservatorship of Wendland to a victory […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: To Nourish and Consume

January 14, 2011

Synopsis: Brian Falk has been away from his hometown for eleven years. In that time, he has traveled, held a few different jobs, including stints as a writer, and even enjoyed the publication of his first, modestly successful book. But now, nearing his thirtieth birthday, Brian has decided to return to his summer resort hometown […]

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Guest Post: The Responsibility of Writing

January 13, 2011

Today I am pleased to welcome author Ryan C. O’Reilly to Colloquium! Ryan’s latest novel, To Nourish and Consume, is a compelling story of going home again in order to reconcile your past so that you can embrace your future. You can read my review here tomorrow, Friday, January 14, 2011, as well as enter […]

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Book Spotlight: Caroline’s Choice

January 12, 2011

Today’s featured author is Martha Rogers, author of Caroline’s Choice. Meet the Author: Martha Rogers is a former schoolteacher and English instructor whose first book in the Winds Across the Prairie series, Becoming Lucy, became an immediate best seller. Morning for Dove (May 2010) is the second book in that series, with Finding Becky (book […]

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Book Review: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

January 4, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Synopsis: Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret.) is a proper English gentleman. He lives in the village of Edgecombe St. Mary in a cottage called Rose Lodge. It has been six years since the death of his beloved wife, Nancy, and their only son, Roger, is a […]

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Book Review: Saying Goodbye

January 3, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Saying Goodbye One thing is certain: The older we get, the longer grows the list of people, places, and things we have said goodbye to over the course of our lives. That fact is always poignantly driven home during the holiday season when we not […]

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