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Teaser Tuesdays: The Peach Keeper

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted at Should Be Reading. For one reason or another Sarah Addison Allen’s latest two novels aren’t making me jump hoops like her earlier ones. This is either because they’re becoming formulaic, which was … Continue reading

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Booking Through Thursday: Queue

This week, Booking Through Thursday wants to know… What are you reading now? Would you recommend it? And what’s next? Wellll, I’m currently reading The Galveston Chronicles by Audra Martin D’Aroma. This is Rozlyn Press‘ second book which will be … Continue reading

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Waiting on Wednesday: What I Didn’t Get to on Maternity Leave…

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted at Breaking The Spine. In my pre-child world I had this blissfully naive notion that maternity leave would be a time of glorious freedom for my daughter and I. Three months later I look back at … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday: The Girl in the Garden

Here’s a long-awaited teaser from The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair. In the months leading up to our trip I used to hear Amma weeping at home, but it had always been soft, subdued, somehow more bearable than this. I … Continue reading

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Dove Keepers

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted at Breaking The Spine. If you read my blog at all you’ll know I can’t wait for this one… The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster, October 2011) Alice Hoffman’s richest, most ambitious novel … Continue reading

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In My Mailbox Monday: Bitter in the Mouth, State of Wonder

In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren, and Mailbox Monday is hosted at Passages to the Past. This past week I received two books from the Amazon Vine program… Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong (August 2010, … Continue reading

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Map of Time

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted at Breaking The Spine. 624 pages of time-travel fantasy leading into maternity leave in June? Heck yeah I want this book. The Map of Time by Felix Palma (Atria, June 2011) A page turner in which … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesdays: And Yet They Were Happy

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted at Should Be Reading. Currently I’m reading a very unconventional type of book, And Yet They Were Happy (May 2011, Leapfrog Press) by Helen Phillips. Best described as a series of short, fable-like … Continue reading

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WWW for March 30, 2011

First, thanks to the venerable James Rollins who stopped by ye old Leaf to leave a comment and update us all that there are excerpts of his upcoming release, The Devil Colony (Sigma Book 6)!  I’ve been a fan of … Continue reading

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In My Mailbox Monday: The Girl Who Chased the Moon

In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren, and Mailbox Monday is hosted at Library of Clean Reads. My hubbers bought me this for Valentines Day! I’ve been dying to read Sarah Addison Allen’s third novel ever since I … Continue reading

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