Fall Into Reading 2011

Fall Into Reading 2011: Wrap-Up

December 23, 2011

Winter arrived on my birthday, December 21, 2011, signalling the conclusion of the Fall into Reading 2011 challenge. I did not manage to read all of the books I planned to read because life interceded at a few points along the way. But I did manage to read (and review) a total of twenty books: […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Poisoned Love

December 21, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Poisoned Love Synopsis: Kristin Rossum was an extremely intelligent, beautiful girl from an accomplished family for whom the future held literally endless possibilities. Today she is an inmate at the California Correctional Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, California, where she is serving a life sentence […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: So Far Away

December 6, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for So Far Away Synopsis: Christine W. Hartman is the daughter of German immigrants, Hans and Irmgard, both of whom were highly intelligent, pragmatic, and products of their upbringings. When her parents divorced, it was Irmgard who left the family home, leaving Christine and her brother to live with their […]

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Book Review: Remembering You

November 29, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Remembering You Synopsis: Ava is hanging on by a thread. Nothing seems to be going right at work lately and she is concerned about keeping her job as the producer of a popular morning news and variety television program in Seattle. She remains lonely and heartbroken a few months […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: It’s Simple

November 28, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for It’s Simple Synopsis: Chase Daniels and Tia Madisson dated in high school, but their friendship was always most important to them and remained strong throughout their college years. Now they have both graduated and embarked upon high-powered careers. Chase was the Los Angeles Lakers’ number […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Absolute Obsession

November 21, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Absolute Obsession Synopsis: Rose Gerbaldi has a loving husband, grown children, and a couple of grandchildren. Still, she experiences periods of time when, as she describes it, she shuts down and needs “me” time. At the age of forty-two, she suspects that she may be […]

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Book Review: Triangles

November 20, 2011

Synopsis: Three women — Holly, Andrea, and Marissa — all stand at crossroads in their lives and relationships. Holly has long been a stay-at-home wife and mother, dabbling in various hobbies that she quickly abandons. Her latest? Writing erotica. She has recently dropped sixty pounds and become obsessed with her physique and new-found ability to […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Conversations and Cosmopolitans

November 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Conversations and Cosmopolitans Synopsis: Robert Rave was just twenty-one years old when he struck out on his own in New York City after growing up in the Midwest, the youngest of three children raised by typical middle-class parents. He could no longer hide the truth of who he […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Her Sister’s Shadow

November 12, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Her Sister’s Shadow Synopsis: George and Blythe Niles were raising their four daughters — Bea, Charlotte, Lilli, and Dori — just outside the small town of White Head on the Massachusetts coast in a beautiful house where Blythe tended the lush gardens and painted vines running up the […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Saint Sebastian’s Head

November 8, 2011

Synopsis: Weeble grew up in a home that she was ashamed to bring friends to after hearing her cousins complain that it always smelled of cat urine. Her motorcycle mechanic father, Frank, spent a lot of time in his recliner drinking beer and watching television. Her mother, Mona, expected her family to fend for themselves. […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Pub Across the Pond

November 3, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Pub Across the Pond Synopsis: Carlene Rivers has never been lucky. That’s what her brutally honest best friend, Becca, tells the gentleman selling raffle tickets at the Irish fair. But Carlene is undeterred, so she throws in twenty dollars on the chance to win Jimmy’s […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Everything We Ever Wanted

November 2, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Everything We Ever Wanted Synopsis: Silvie Bates-McAllister has lived her life steeped in family history. For many years, she has served on the Board of Directors of Swithin, the private school that her grandfather rebuilt and reestablished after it was destroyed by a fire. Both of her sons, […]

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Book Review: When No One Is Watching

October 31, 2011

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for When No One Is Watching Synopsis: Blair Van Howe and his partner, Danny Moran, were celebrating the biggest victory of their legal careers when both of their lives were forever changed. Danny had enjoyed a three-month period during which he managed to stay sober, but the evening’s […]

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Book Review: Baby, It’s Cold Outside

October 25, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Baby, It’s Cold Outside Synopsis: Dottie Morgan lost the Christmas spirit five years ago when her only son, Nelson, was killed in combat. She discontinued local traditions in the little town of Frost, such as her annual reading of a Christmas story at the library where she is the […]

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Book Review: Moonlight Rises

October 22, 2011

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for Moonlight Rises Synopsis: Dick Moonlight hasn’t had much business as a private investigator lately, so he’s been devoting his attention to his bar, Moonlight’s. That’s where he meets Peter Czech, a paraplegic who hires Moonlight to find his biological father. Czech, a nuclear engineer of Russian descent, […]

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Book Review: Along Wooded Paths

October 19, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Along Wooded Paths Synopsis: Marianna Sommer reluctantly left her Indiana home to move to Montana with her family. She grew up believing that one day she would marry Aaron Zook, who has been building a home in anticipation of proposing to Marianna. But her parents’ grief over the loss […]

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Book Review: Reclaiming Lily

October 15, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Reclaiming Lily Synopsis: Joy Powell is an out of control seventeen-year-old, severely trying the patience of her exasperated parents, Andrew, a pastor, and Gloria. After struggling with infertility, the Powells traveled to Eastern China in 1990 to adopt a beautiful little girl who had been named Lily at birth. […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Holy Ghost Girl

October 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Holy Ghost Girl Synopsis: Donna was a mere three years old and her younger brother, Gary, was barely a year old when their divorced mother left her parents’ home to travel the country with evangelist David Terrell during the 1960’s. Her children in tow, Carolyn and the other members […]

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Book Review: Little Did I Know

October 11, 2011

Synopsis: Sam August is about to graduate from college and he has a big dream. He has found an old, rundown theater in Plymouth, Massachusetts that is available for rent where he, assisted by some of his college friends, could produce and direct five musicals — Cabaret, Funny Girl, Anything Goes, Company and The Fantasticks […]

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Book Review: Heiress

October 7, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Heiress Synopsis: Esme Price and her younger sister, Jinx, have never known a life without luxury. It is 1896, and the privileged daughters of August Price, owner and publisher of The Chronicle, New York City’s most prominent newspaper, they have grown up in the family’s Fifth Avenue chateau. Jinx […]

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Book Review: Flat-Out Love

October 4, 2011

Synopsis: Julie Seagle had just arrived in Boston to begin her freshman year in college when she learned that the apartment she rented — sight unseen — via an Internet advertisement did not exist. At the address where she was supposed to unpack and settle into her new apartment, she found a seedy restaurant in […]

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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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Fall Into Reading 2011

September 23, 2011

Katrina at Callapidder Days is hosting the Fall Into Reading 2011 self-designed, self-paced reading challenge! The guidelines are simple: Each participant fashions the list of books he/she plans to read (or finish reading) this fall. The number and type of books on the list is completely up to the individual participant. Also, the list can […]

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