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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... ... and it has addled her brain.

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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1W ago

Spotlight on Bookstores: Barnes & Noble in Park Slope, Brooklyn

photo credit Marion Ettlinger Today’s Spotlight on Bookstores post is written by Jillian Medoff, author of Good Girls Gone Bad, Hunger Point, and her most recent novel - I Couldn’t Love You More.  I Couldn’t Love You More has garnered rave reviews from readers and media, including this knock-it-out-
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1W ago

Thoughts on *The Lola Quartet* by Emily St. John Mandel

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Unbridled Books (May 15, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-1609530792 Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb):  Disgraced and fired from his newspaper job, a young man returns to the Florida town of his youth to begin search
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 3W ago

Weekend Cooking: Persimmon Cookies from *Mennonite in a Little Black Dress*

photo of persimmon from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon I recently read Rhoda Janzen’s Mennonite in a Little Black Dress for our neighborhood book group. This was a memoir that surprised me by how much I enjoyed it – I’ll admit that I was predisposed to a “prove yourself to me” att
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 3W ago

Thoughts on *The Sense of an Ending* by Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Knopf (October 5, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0307957122 Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb):  This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his c
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 4W ago

BooktopiaVT author event with Leslie Maitland and *Crossing the Borders of Time*

Michael Kindness and Leslie Maitland The author events at #booktopiaVT were “sessions,” – small groups devoted to conversation about a particular book or topic. Aside from authors discussing a specific title, there was one session about writing about place (Howard Frank Mosher and Sarah J. Henry tal
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1M ago

A bookish Patriots’ Day in Concord

A few photos from last Monday – this was Patriots’ Day in the state of Massachusetts … also known as the day the Boston Marathon is run. In the rest of the country, it’s much like any other day. But, around here, it’s a state holiday (banks, schools closed), and it’s not unusual to see people dresse
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1M ago

My haul from #booktopiaVT

I’m back from #booktopiaVT – that’s the twitter hashtag for the 3-day ‘readers retreat’ for listeners of the Books on the Nightstand podcast. We spent Friday thru Sunday in gorgeous Manchester, Vermont; three inns and the rambling Northshire Bookstore were the venues for intimate sessions that broug
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1M ago

Winner of Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s *Glow*

Did you enter to win Glow? Pop over to this post on my Giveaways page to see if you’re the winner ….
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1M ago

On the road to see Adriana Trigiani

If there’s one thing better than seeing a favorite author at an event/reading, it’s seeing that author with your own little gang of fellow fans. And, if there’s one thing better than seeing a favorite author with fellow fans, it’s the opportunity to create a newly-minted fan. I had just this experie
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ... · 1M ago

Weekend Cooking: breakfast bingo and *In a Pickle*

The menu board at "In a Pickle" I love breakfast – a great way to start the day and all that. I was never one to skip breakfast, even back in high school when it seemed to be the thing to do (I did often eat a pre-packaged Hostess apple “pie” with a Tab in [...]
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