Book Review Blog Carnival

Book Review: The Language of Flowers

October 3, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Language of Flowers Synopsis: Victoria Jones does not know her actual birthday because she was abandoned by her birth parents. Court records reflect that she was about three weeks old when she became a ward of the court and Meredith Combs was appointed her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Claim of Innocence

September 27, 2011

Synopsis: Valerie Solara insists that she is innocent. Charged with murdering one of her two best friends, Amanda Miller, by poisoning Amanda’s food, Valerie’s trial is just beginning. But Martin Bristol, a renowned local criminal defense attorney who is lead counsel on the case, has taken ill. His granddaughter and partner, Maggie, has asked Izzy […]

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Book Review: The Grief of Others

September 19, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Grief of Others Synopsis: One year ago, the Ryrie family suffered an unspeakable loss. The child Ricky was carrying was determined to have anencephaly early in the pregnancy. Simon Isaac Ryrie lived just fifty-seven short hours. He was quietly cremated, and John placed the small cardboard box […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Call Me Irresistible

September 15, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Call Me Irresistible Synopsis: Meg Koranda has come to Wynette, Texas, for the wedding of her best friend, Lucy Jorik, to Wynette’s favorite son, Ted Beaudine. He is so perfect that Meg can practically hear angels singing every time he enters the room. He and Lucy are a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Lantern

September 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Lantern Synopsis: Eve and Dom fell in love and into a relationship practically instantaneously. He was handsome, older, and charmingly mysterious. Dom was a composer who had already made his fortune and now had the luxury of devoting his time to his musical pursuits. Eve was a […]

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Book Review Blog Carnival

September 11, 2011

Welcome to the Book Review Blog Carnival! It is hard to believe that ten years ago today a new phrase, “9/11,” was ushered into our vocabulary, its meaning fully understood and internalized by every American who remembers watching, listening or reading in stunned, silent horror as America came under attack and our lives were forever […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Voices From the Land

July 30, 2011

Synopsis: It was 1860 and according to that year’s census, there were more than four million slaves in the United States. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln would issue an executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, applicable to more than three million of them and immediately freeing approximately fifty thousand. The United States was on […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Shut Your Eyes Tight

July 29, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Shut Your Eyes Tight Synopsis: David Gurney is a retired New York City homicide detective who has moved upstate with his wife Madeleine to a fifty-acre country paradise complete with surrounding woods, a pond, and plenty of solitude. But retirement comes easier to some than to others and when […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Things We Didn’t Say

July 26, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Things We Didn’t Say Synopsis: Edna Leigh Casey prefers to be known as simply “Casey.” Named for a great-aunt, Casey is, at twenty-six, too young to be known as Edna. She is also ten years younger than her fiancee, Michael, into whose home she moved when their relationship […]

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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: Every Last One

December 29, 2010

Synopsis: Anna Quindlen has long been one of my favorite writers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three of my all-time favorite books, Object Lessons, Black and Blue, and One True Thing. Her latest novel, Every Last One, not only matches, but exceeds the quality of her previous work. The Lathams are a typical […]

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Book Review: Stay With Me

December 28, 2010

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Stay With Me Synopsis: In 1979, five toddlers ranging in age from two to four years, were abandoned aboard a luxury yacht named “For Tuna” on the coast of Puerto Rico. The vessel had reportedly been lost during Hurricane David. Healthy and apparently cared for, even though one bore […]

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Book Review Blog Carnival

December 26, 2010

Welcome to the 59th Edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival! Fiction Heather reviews Amy Inspired at Proud Book Nerd. Zohar reviews Room by Emma Donoghue at Man of la Book. Kerrie also reviews Room by Emma Donoghue at Mysteries in Paradise. Kerrie recommends it, noting that it was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker […]

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Book Review: Talismans

December 20, 2010

Welcome to the WOW! Women on Writing Virtual Book Tour for A Whisper to a Scream Synopsis: Two photographs, and a pea coat passed from her grandfather to her father. That’s all Elise has. In one of the photographs, taken at home, she is a baby and he is swinging her in his arms. He […]

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Book Review: From the Dead

December 19, 2010

Synopsis: Things are not working out the way Jesse Barlow planned. He grew up “the son of a preacher man” — that Dusty Springfield recording was the author’s inspiration for the story — in a small Ohio town, but has been toiling in Los Angeles for eleven years since graduating from high school and coming […]

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Book Review Blog Carnival

September 19, 2010

Welcome to the 52nd Edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival! It is a beautiful Sunday here in Northern California. The weather is perfect, and fall is very much on the horizon, as evidenced by the soft cool breeze upon which leaves in beautiful shades of red, gold, copper, and brown are floating onto the […]

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Book Review: Escapades of Romantically Challenged Me

August 25, 2010

It takes a really funny book to get me to laugh out loud — actually guffaw and even snort a couple of times — when I’m sitting on my patio, enjoying a cool evening breeze wafting in from the Delta through my oak trees, sipping a glass of fine Lodi wine as I read. But that’s […]

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Book Review: Beachcombers

July 7, 2010

Four women. Each at a crossroads in her life. Each unsure what her future will be like, aside from the fact that it will bear no resemblance to her recent past. One beautiful summer on Nantucket island leads to personal discoveries, revelations, growth … transformations. Sound like the theme of a perfect summer novel? Indeed […]

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Book Review: Seven Year Switch

July 6, 2010

Summer arrived in Northern California uncharacteristically late this year. Normally, the temperature soars past 100 degrees by Memorial Day, and by the time we “ooh” and “aah” over the Fourth of July fireworks display, we have enjoyed a number of days lounging on the beach or by the pool, leisurely reading an engrossing novel … […]

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Book Review Blog Carnival

July 4, 2010

Welcome to the 47th edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival! I invite you to grab your favorite celebratory beverage and snack, get comfortable, and enjoy part of this wonderful Fourth of July holiday perusing the fine reviews included in this edition. You are sure to add some titles to your “to be read” list […]

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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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