Saturday, August 31, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"I've always associated the moment of writing
with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."

In Memoriam

~ Seamus Heaney, Irish poet
April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

 Read this and other Seamus Heaney quotes online at BrainyQuote.


Catherine
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #12

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It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:
  • Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
  • The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
This week's selection:
 The Sandcastle Girls
 
Beginning: When my twin brother and I were small children, we would take turns sitting on our grandfather's lap.  There he would grab the rope-like rolls of baby fat that would pool at our waists and bounce us on his knees, cooing, "Big belly, big belly, big belly."
 
Reading these opening sentences, I can clearly picture in my mind this delightful moment that demonstrates the special bond between grandparent and grandchildren.  I am interested in knowing this family's story.
 
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Page 56:  "And then he sees her, and seconds pass before he speaks because he doesn't want to frighten her, and because the sun through the open doorway catches the red in her hair and the pale beauty of the skin on her cheek and he is simply unable to open his mouth."
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Overview from barnesandnoble.comWhen Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It’s 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, realizing that he has fallen in love with the wealthy young American.

Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey back through her family’s history, uncovering a story of love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
 
Enjoy life with books...

Catherine
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: The Tilted World

 
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about a forthcoming book with other readers.
 
This week's anticipated book:
 The Tilted World: A Novel
 The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
Publication Date:  HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher:  October 1, 2013

From barnesandnoble.com: 
Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly.

The year is 1927.  As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who'd been on the trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.

Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the agents' disappearance. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never be trusted.

When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it—in each other.

Enjoy life with books . . .
 
Catherine
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #28 and Tuesday Teaser


 

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraphs from Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey, which I purchased a while ago and plan to read soon.  This book is the first in the Southern Sewing Circle Series of cozy mysteries.

Read on after the intro for my Tuesday Teaser.

 Sew Deadly (Southern Sewing Circle Series #1)   
Publisher:  Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated/Berkley Crime
Publication Date:  August 4, 2009

Chapter 1

She wasn't entirely sure whether it was the pull of the mahogany sewing box in the window or a much-needed respite from the endless barrage of curious glances, but either way. Elkin Antiques and Collectibles seemed as good a place as any for a momentary escape.

Switching the paper sack of lightbulbs to her left hand, Tori Sinclair pushed the glass door open, her presence greeted by a wall-mounted bell and a cocked eyebrow from the sixty-something woman behind the counter.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?  I was sold based on the profession of the main character.  "Yankee" librarian Tori Sinclair must win over the residents of her new community as she settles into a new life and job in the small town of Sweet Briar, South Carolina.  Tori seems to be making strides, but then things hit a major road bump when Tori must clear her name as a murder suspect.
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Teaser Tuesdays, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, is a weekly event where bloggers open to a random page and share a teaser from somewhere on that page--no spoilers allowed.
 
Here's my teaser from Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey:
"All eyes turned on the new librarian.  Including those belonging to an unfamiliar woman in her seventies."
~ p. 47

Catherine
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #32

Here's my recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired this week, which I am sharing on the following blogs:

        
                                   
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Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer / Stacking the Shelves hosted by the team at Tynga's Reviews / Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .


My Week in Books, August 18-24, 2013
Finished reading . . . 
Restrike: Coleman and Dinah Greene Mystery No. 1   Restrike by Reba White Williams
 
Currently reading . . .
                                          What I'm ReadingThe Art Forger: A Novel
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg; The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Giveaway I Won -- Courtesy of  Rose City Reader . . .    
Drive by Raymond Ahrens: Book Cover   Drive by Raymond Ahrens
 
Ebooks downloaded . . .
                              The Bone SeasonGingerbread ManThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer    
NookThe Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
 
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KindleConditions are Favorable by Tara Staley, Where We Belong by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Torch Ginger by Toby Neal, What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Which books did you get this week?
 
 
Catherine
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
 the pessimist stares at the thorns,
oblivious of the rose."

~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and author (1883-1931)

Read this and other Kahlil Gibran quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Catherine
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #11

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It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:
  • Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
  • The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
This week's selection:
 I Still Dream About You
 
BeginningIt's funny what a person will remember so many years later; what sticks in your mind and what doesn't.

My initial reaction is that this statement is so true.  Memory can be very selective, especially looking back after a number of years.  And when you speak with others who shared a particular experience, the remembrance can get even more interesting...
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Page 56:  "A lovely, practical, and predictable ending, but unfortunately, Maggie didn't have the money or the desire to wait that long.  True, she wasn't getting the Technicolor ending she had expected, but she couldn't have asked for a more wonderful beginning."

Overview from barnesandnoble.comThe beloved Fannie Flagg is at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. 

Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret.
 
I Still Dream About You is a wonderful novel that is equal parts southern charm, murder mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg.


Enjoy life with books...

Catherine
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: Who Asked You?

 
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about a forthcoming book with other readers.
 
This week's anticipated book:
Who Asked You?
 Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
Publication Date:  September 17, 2013
Publisher:  Viking Adult

From barnesandnoble.com:  
Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
 
With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships—Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them—Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now—at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood.

Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan’s inimitable humor, Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams—all while holding down a job delivering room service at a hotel. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, can’t be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she needs. The drama unfolds through the perspectives of a rotating cast of characters, pitch-perfect, each playing a part, and full of surprises.

Who Asked You? casts an intimate look at the burdens and blessings of family and speaks to trusting your own judgment even when others don’t agree. McMillan’s signature voice and unforgettable characters bring universal issues to brilliant, vivid life.
 
Enjoy life with books . . .
 
Catherine
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #27 and Tuesday Teaser



First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraph from The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian, which I borrowed from the library.  This book was selected as a next read for one of my book clubs, and I started reading it this week.

Read on after the intro for my Tuesday Teaser.
 The Sandcastle Girls
 Publisher:  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date:  July 17, 2012

Prologue

When my twin brother and I were small children, we would take turns sitting on our grandfather's lap.  There he would grab the rope-like roles of baby fat that would pool at our waists and bounce us on his knees, cooing.  'Big belly, big belly, big belly.'  This was meant as an affectionate, grandfatherly gesture, not his subtle way of suggesting that if we didn't lose weight, we would wind up as Jenny Craig testimonials.   Just for the record, there is also a chance that when my brother was being bounced on Grandpa's lap, he was wearing a white turtleneck shirt and red velvet knickers.  This is the outfit my mother often had him wear when we visited our grandparents, because this was the getup that in her opinion made him look most British--and he had to look British, since she was going to make him sing the 1965 Herman's Hermits pop hit 'I'm Henry the VIII, I Am.'  The song had been popular four years earlier when she'd given birth to us, and in some disturbingly Oedipal fashion she has come to view it as their song.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading? The love story in this historical novel drew me in immediately. Spanning a century, two continents, and several generations--from the bloodshed and political strife of 1915 Aleppo, Syria to present day Bronxville, New York--Bohjalian's writing is rich in cultural detail and character development.  I am looking forward to a group discussion of this novel with the members of my book club.


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Teaser Tuesdays, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, is a weekly event where bloggers open to a random page and share a teaser from somewhere on that page--no spoilers allowed.
 
Here's my teaser from The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian:
"Two birds alight on the branches of a spindly poplar.  At first she presumes they are hawks.  On a second look, however, she realizes they are vultures." ~ p.29

Catherine
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #31

Here's my recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired this week, which I am sharing on the following blogs:
        
                                   
                        Showcase Sunday banner
Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer / Stacking the Shelves hosted by the team at Tynga's Reviews / Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .


My Week in Books, August 11-17, 2013
 
Finished reading . . . 
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey   While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
 
Currently reading . . .
Restrike: Coleman and Dinah Greene Mystery No. 1The Art Forger: A Novel   
Restrike by Reba White Williams; The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
 
Purchased . . .
 Mayhem at the Orient Express   Mayhem at the Orient Express by Kylie Logan

Received from publishers . . .
Forever, Interrupted: A NovelThe Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel   
From Atria BooksForever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid; The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown
 
A Legacy of Secrets (Harlequin Presents Series #3138) Heir to a Dark Inheritance (Harlequin Presents Series #3141)    
From HarlequinA Legacy of Secrets by Carol Marinelli; Heir to a Dark Inheritance by Maisey Yates


Which books did you get this week?
 
 
Catherine
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"Today is your day!  Your mountain is waiting.
So . . . get on your way."

~ Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American author and illustrator (1904-1991)

Read this and other Dr. Seuss quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Catherine
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #10

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It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:
  • Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
  • The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
This week's selection:
Mayhem at the Orient Express
Mayhem at the Orient Express by Kylie Logan
  
BeginningIf it weren't for Jerry Garcia peeing on my pansies, I never would have joined the League of Literary Ladies.
 
No, not that Jerry Garcia!  Jerry Garcia, Chandra Morrisey's cat.  In fact, it was that peeing incident, and the one before it, and the one before that . . .
 
I love new cozy mystery series, and I came upon this one by accident when I was searching online this week for a different book that has the phrase "orient express" in its title . . . no, not that Orient Express, although Agatha Christie's book is an element of the plot.  I couldn't resist running out to get this one, and as I began perusing the opening paragraphs, I got the feeling that I am in for a rollicking read.
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Page 56:  "'Not something you'd expect here on the island.' I didn't realize I'd spoken out loud until I heard my own voice.  It was so small, it was nearly lost beneath the sounds of the crackling flames and the howling wind outside."
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Overview from barnesandnoble.com:  At a local Chinese restaurant, it's the owner who gets taken out...

Most folks aren’t forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group, but that’s just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate Wilder after a small-town magistrate has had enough of their squabbling. South Bass, an island on Lake Erie, is home to an idyllic summer resort, but these three ladies keep disturbing the peace.

The initial book choice is Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, and that sets their mouths to watering. The Orient Express is the island’s newest Chinese restaurant. They might not agree about much, but the ladies all love the orange chicken on the menu. But their meal is spoiled when the restaurant’s owner, Peter Chan, has the bad fortune of getting murdered. Now, with Christie as their inspiration, the League of Literary Ladies has a real mystery to solve…if they can somehow catch a killer without killing each other first.

Enjoy life with books...

Catherine
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: Night Film

 
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about a forthcoming book with other readers.
 
This week's anticipated book:
 Night Film
  Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Publication date:August 20, 2013
 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  Available next week!
From barnesandnoble.com:
Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.

For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.

The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.

Night Film, the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page.



Enjoy life with books . . .
 
Catherine
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #26 and Tuesday Teaser


 

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraph from a book I borrowed from the library, I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg.  This book has been selected as a next read by one of my book clubs, so I will be starting it soon.

Read on after the intro for my Tuesday Teaser.

 I Still Dream About You
 Publisher:  Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date:  November 9, 2010

Prologue
September 1955

It's funny what a person will remember so many years later; what sticks in your mind and what doesn't.  Whenever he thought back to the year he had worked at the Western Union office, he remembered that little girl.
 
What do you think?  Would you continue reading?  I'll be reading this one for an early September book club meeting.  Since I haven't read a book by Fannie Flagg before, I am really looking forward to it. 

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Teaser Tuesdays, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, is a weekly event where bloggers open to a random page and share a teaser from somewhere on that page--no spoilers allowed.
 
Here's my teaser from I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg:
"Naturally, doing something like this would never have been her first choice, but after having made out list after list of all the pros and cons of her life and thoroughly exploring every other possible solution, it had become painfully clear that she had no other option." ~ p. 7

Catherine
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