Spring Reading Thing 2011

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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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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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 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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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Book Review and Giveaway: Husband and Wife

April 26, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Husband and Wife Synopsis: Nathan’s new novel, Infidelity, is about to be published and the advance buzz about the book is very positive. As his wife, Sarah, helps him find his shoes so that they can finish dressing for the wedding of their best friends, Alex and Adam, Nathan […]

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Book Review: The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus

April 25, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus Synopsis: Holly is approaching her fiftieth birthday. She is a poet with a deadline about which her publisher keeps nagging her. If she doesn’t get her manuscript completed, she might be asked to return the advance payment she received. Meanwhile, her mother, Myra, […]

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Book Review: Beside Still Waters

April 22, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Beside Still Waters Synopsis: Marianna Sommer has always felt insecure, as though she can never measure up to the expectations of her parents and her community. She has always felt that she is one person destined to serve as a substitute for two who were lost. After all, she […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Attachments

April 19, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Attachments Synopsis: Lincoln is twenty-eight years old and holds a couple of master’s degrees. He didn’t know what else to do with his life, so he continued his education. Now, living back at home with his mother, he has taken a job at The Courier, the local newspaper […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life

April 18, 2011

Welcome to the WOW! Women on Writing Virtual Book Tour for The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life If you are looking for a wonderful writer’s resource book to add to your library or present to a fellow writer as a gift, The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life is a perfect choice. […]

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