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Curl Up and Read · 1w ago

CONVERGING LIVES ON A COLLISION COURSE — A REVIEW

Family connections, secrets, and the love of place are the primary themes of Lisa Unger’s Heartbroken: A Novel. And intriguingly, Heart Island, the Heart family’s summer home, is the place where they vacation every summer. For Birdie Heart Burke, however, the island is so much more than a vacation h
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Curl Up and Read · 2W ago

A MODERN-DAY FAIRYTALE — A REVIEW

A modern day fairytale princess of a small European nation, Christiana has managed to escape the glitz and tedium of her life to attend Berkeley for four years. But now she’s back home…and back to attending ceremonies, cutting ribbons, and living her official role as a Serene Highness who will never
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Curl Up and Read · 3W ago

APRIL READING WRAP-UP — MAY 1

  Welcome to May!  With spring in the air (most of the time, anyway), our thoughts turn to summer reading.  In the meantime, we look back to see what we’ve accomplished in the previous month. April was a pretty good month, and here’s what happened: APRIL 2012: 1.    A Silence of Mockingbirds - Karen
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

READ-A-THON FINISH!

In this wrap-up post: A Readathon tradition! In your final Readathon post, answer these questions and then link to it with the Mr. Linky, below. Which hour was most daunting for you?  — Around 9:00 p.m. last night, when I fizzled Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a R
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

READ-A-THON UPDATE — APRIL 21

I have been reading on and off all day, for a total of 6.5.  Even with my breaks, my eyes feel like they’re gritty and images are blurring. So I’m going to take a little break! So far, I’ve finished Heiress without a Cause  - click for review: (started at p. 120 and finished at [...]
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

CURL UP AND READ — IT’S READ-A-THON TIME! — APRIL 21

  It’s that time again, folks!  Check in here at the Dewey’s Read-a-Thon site. I was reminded of this event this morning when Sheila woke me up with her Meandering post. I plan to curl up here and read a few books on my stack…or at least one or two!   But I do have [...]
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

BOOKING THROUGH THURSDAY: ETERNITY — APRIL 12

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly event in which bloggers consider a question and respond to it.  Usually of a bookish nature, the prompts are great conversation starters. Here’s Today’s Prompt: What book took you the longest to read, and do you feel it was the content or just the length that mad
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

A PORTRAIT IN MUTED SHADES: MEMORABLE! — A REVIEW

Slowly the story unfolds, bringing characters such as Waspy Julian Wainwright and scholarship student Carter Heinz to life, as they begin their journey as college students. We meet them in the eighties, during the Reagan era, and follow them into the twenty-first century. College years in Northingto
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

BLOGGIESTA FINISH LINE! – APRIL 1

  It’s a wrap!  Yes, indeed, the weekend was fun, with lots of blog visiting and participating in five mini-challenges.  I worked on this blog primarily, but also did some things over at my two Blogger sites. Here’s my list, with finished items crossed out.  As you can see, I pretty much finished ev
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Curl Up and Read · 1M ago

MARCH READING WRAP-UP — HAPPY APRIL! — APRIL 1

March was a good month for me.  I had several thoroughly enjoyable books to read and somehow managed to exceed my totals for January, as well as February. Here’s what the month looked like: MARCH 2012: 1.   Accidental Feminist, The – M. G. Lord – 178 pages – (nonfiction) – 3/13/12 2.   After Diana -
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