June 2011

Book Review and Giveaway: The Storm at the Door

June 29, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Storm at the Door Synopsis: Katherine did not know Frederick very long before marrying him, and much of their courtship was conducted through letters exchanged while he was serving in the military during World War II. Before long, however, Frederick’s erratic behavior came to everyone’s attention and Katherine […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Before I Go to Sleep

June 24, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Before I Go to Sleep Synopsis: Christine Lucas wakes up each morning confused. She believes that she is a young woman in her twenties. She looks around her bedroom and it does not seem familiar, and is sometimes shocked to see that a man she does not recognize is […]

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Spring Reading Thing 2011 Wrap-Up

June 24, 2011

Katrina at Callapidder Days hosted Spring Reading Thing 2011, a self-designed, self-paced reading challenge in which 127 readers participated! But spring has given way to summer and the challenge has ended. Spring Reading Thing 2011 Results Date Reviewed Title Author May 4, 2011 As the Sycamore Grows Jennie Miller Helderman April 19, 2011 Attachments Rainbow Rowell April 22, 2011 […]

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Guest Post: Using Memoir Writing to Deal with Grief

June 23, 2011

Today I am pleased to welcome Madeline Sharples to Colloquium! Madeline is the author of an important new book. Leaving the Hall Light On is about living after loss. It is about finding peace and balance in the aftermath of the most devastating loss a parent can experience. Sharple’s son, Paul, struggled for seven years with […]

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Book Review: Spring for Susannah

June 21, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Spring for Susannah Synopsis: Susannah Underhill has always been painfully shy and socially inept. She considers herself plain. She grew up in Detroit, the only child of a veterinary surgeon, in a household devoid of displays of affection or recognition of emotions. Susannah devoted herself to caring for her […]

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Midsummer’s Eve Giveaway Hop

June 21, 2011

Welcome to the Midsummer’s Eve Giveaway Hop! Today is the first day of summer and to celebrate Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer is hosting another spectacular giveaway hop in which nearly 300 blogs are participating! To kick your summer reading off, you are invited to enter to win a $25 […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Folly Beach

June 20, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Folly Beach Synopsis: Cathryn (“Cate”) Mahon Cooper has had a series of very bad days. A few days ago, Cate’s husband of twenty-six years, Addison, took his own life. At his funeral, she learned that Addison had numerous affairs, including one that produced a young son, and mismanaged […]

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Book Review: Hello Goodbye

June 20, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Hello Goodbye Synopsis: Helen Hansen is dying, but no one has told her that. Her treating physicians and husband, Elliott, have decided that it is better for Helen to continue to live with hope. Abby, their eighteen-year-old daughter, has returned home from her first year of college. An only […]

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Book Review Blog Carnival

June 19, 2011

Welcome to the Book Review Blog Carnival! Fiction Jim Murdoch reviews Missing by Karin Alvtegen at The Truth About Lies. After a depression and unwanted pregnancy, 18-year-old Sibylla flees her well-to-do family. She is homeless, but takes rather good care of herself for fifteen years. Then things go wrong: she is wrongly accused of murdering […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Island Girl

June 11, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Island Girl Synopsis: Ruby Donaldson is fifty-five years old. A year ago, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Her physician prescribed medication in an attempt to slow the disease’s progress but, sadly, it has not been effective. She is presented with the reality of her situation and […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: No One to Hear You Scream

June 10, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for No One to Hear You Scream Synopsis: Justine Jameson is approaching her eighteenth birthday. She had a brief relationship with Keith that ended after only four months. Pregnant and alone, she returned home to live with her father, Brett, the owner of a boot manufacturing […]

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Guest Post: Making the Leap From Romance Shelves to the Deep Dark Woods of General Fiction

June 9, 2011

Lynda Simmons is the author of Island Girl, the story of a fifty-five-year-old woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and her daughters, Liz and Grace. It is not an easy topic to tackle, in part because it makes many readers uneasy. After all, it is a rare individual who can say that his or […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Faith

June 8, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Faith Synopsis: Art Breen was just a baby when, in 1951, his father abandoned him and his mother. She struggled to care for herself and her son, but Father Fergus came to their aid, driving them places and taking them grocery shopping each week. Eventually she was remarried […]

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Book Review: The Hot Flash Club

June 7, 2011

Synopsis: Alice has, over the course of a thirty-six year career, climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. But now she is sixty-two years old and her company is merging with another corporation. Alison Cummings, a brash, younger, unmarried, childless executive from the other organization has an MBA from Harvard — as well as […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Unfinished Business ~ One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

June 6, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Unfinished Business Synopsis: The first fifty-four years of Lee Kravitz’s life were unremarkable in the sense that he spent them doing what most Americans do: He completed his education and traveled a bit before settling down to focus on his career. He married, had children, and achieved professional […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: A Long and Overdue Thank-you Note

June 1, 2011

I am thrilled to welcome best-selling author Karen White to Colloquium today! Karen is the author of fourteen novels, including Falling Home, On Folly Beach, and her latest work, review of the book, you have a second chance! I am giving one copy to a lucky reader whose comment will be selected at random! (Entry […]

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