May 2011

Book Review and Giveaway: Finding Frances

May 30, 2011

Synopsis: Frances Baldwin is seventy-four years old. She has known for quite a few months that she was nearing the end of her life. For many years, she enjoyed smoking, which has resulted in her suffering from emphysema and, more recently, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), a progressive disorder which makes it difficult to breathe […]

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Guest Post: Overdosing on Yoga

May 28, 2011

Today I am delighted to welcome author Diana Spechler to Colloquium! Diana is the author of Skinny and Who by Fire. Overdosing on Yoga by Diana Spechler In my late twenties, two different times, I got into the best shape of my life. The first time happened the summer I turned twenty-seven, when I was writing […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Skinny

May 27, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Skinny Synopsis: Gray Lachmann’s life feels to her that it matches her name. Gray, gloomy, without hope. Gray is convinced that she killed her father and since his death, she has been unable to control her eating. She overeats. She eats compulsively. She binges. She eats in secret. […]

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Book Review: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

May 27, 2011

Synopsis: Wesley Lloyd Springer died suddenly on a Thursday evening in the driveway of his home. His wife of forty-four years, Julia, discovered him slumped over the steering wheel of his new Buick Park Avenue. After she recovered from the shock — and traded the Buick in for a sporty new car — she left […]

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Book Review: Exposure

May 24, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Exposure Synopsis: Amelia Wilkes is, in most respects, a typical seventeen-year-old high school senior, with big dreams of studying drama at New York University and eventually forging a career as a Broadway performer. She plans to be joined in her studies, her career aspirations, and […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: 27 Days of Journaling to Health and Happiness

May 24, 2011

Welcome to the WOW! Women on Writing Virtual Book Tour for 27 Days of Journaling to Health & Happiness Author Mari L. McCarthy is very straight-forward and honest in her Introduction to 27 Days of Journaling to Health & Happiness: “I’ll tell you right now that if you’re not able to commit for 27 consecutive […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Ten Beach Road

May 23, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Ten Beach Road Synopsis: Madeline “Maddie” Singer had no idea anything was amiss until that fateful morning when her mother-in-law suffered a mishap at her home and required medical attention. Steve, Maddie’s husband, an investment adviser, did not answer his cell phone so Maddie did something that she rarely […]

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Guest Post: Help! Author Addicted to Home and Garden Television

May 20, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Ten Beach Road One thrill that never gets “old” is that moment when a guest post from an author arrives in my email in box. Today’s post was no exception because it comes from popular author Wendy Wax who penned Magnolia Wednesdays, The Accidental Bestseller, and her new release, […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: When We Danced on Water

May 18, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for When We Danced on Water Synopsis: Every day he sits in the same booth in the coffee bar and she brings him his coffee. They strike up a most unusual friendship, this eighty-four-year-old former ballet dancer and choreographer of great renown in the world of the arts, and forty-two-year-old […]

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Book Review: Friendship Bread

May 16, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Friendship Bread Synopsis: Avalon, Illinois, about ninety minutes from Chicago, is a quintessential small American town. Julia Everts grew up there, but for the past five years, she has barely left her house and shunned most of her neighbors and long-time friends. When Julia’s ten-year-old […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Beach Trees

May 13, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Beach Trees Synopsis: Monica Guidry, a New Orleans native, escaped to New York City and spent the last ten years of her life there. She met Julie Holt at an exhibition of Julie’s great-grandfather, Abe Holt’s, paintings. The two women grew as close as sisters, and when Monica […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Dead of Wynter

May 10, 2011

Synopsis: Alice Wynter left her familial home in Redding, Maine many years ago and never looked back. She married Gerald Dunn, a successful Wall Street lawyer, created an equally successful career of her own in advertising, and settled into life in Chatham, New Jersey. She thought that by physically distancing herself from the painful memories […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Midwife’s Confession

May 7, 2011

Synopsis: How well do you know your closest friends? Do you know much about their professional pursuits? Do you know their quirks and eccentricities? More importantly, do you know the ways in which their quirks and eccentricities impact their daily lives and the way they function in the world? Do you know to what lengths […]

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Spring Blog Carnival: Cotton Candy Booth Challenge and Giveaway

May 6, 2011

Welcome to the Cotton Candy Booth! Our hosts for this Spring Blog Carnival are Candace’s Book Blog, Reading Angel, Pure Imagination, and The Book Swarm. Click here to enter to win a $15 Amazon gift certificate and peruse the list of more than 200 other participating sites where you can enter to win wonderful book-related items. […]

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Guest Post: Writing Music

May 5, 2011

Spencer Seidel’s debut novel, Dead of Wynter, is a thriller with exciting plot twists that keep readers guessing until the very last page. The plot revolves around Alyce Wynter who, twenty-five years after fleeing her broken, self-destructing family, must return home to bury her father. Her alcoholic brother is missing. Alyce hopes to come to terms […]

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Book Review: As the Sycamore Grows

May 4, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for As the Sycamore Grows Synopsis: Imagine yourself living in the woods of Tennessee in a crudely built cabin with no electricity. Picture yourself going into a shed (no more than a lean-to, really) to wash all of your clothing by hand in a tub, and […]

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Spring Blog Carnival

May 1, 2011

Welcome! Our hosts are Candace’s Book Blog, Reading Angel, Pure Imagination, and The Book Swarm. They have planned a full week of fun-filled activities for Carnival attendees! In addition to book-related contests and giveaways offered by more than 200 participating sites, there are also special challenges scheduled to take place at some of the booths […]

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