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Cover Collection: Possession
All covers from Vintage Possession by A.S. Byatt is one of my favorite books and one of the only novels that I’ve read more than once over the years. I last read it two years ago and, though it didn’t have the same hold over me as it did when I was 20, it was…
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Sunday Bulletin 4/6
We’ve had beautiful weather this week in central Arizona. I’ve been walking every evening and I’ve soaked in all the cool, blossom scented air and delighted in the feel of it on my skin. It might be the last nice weather of the season as temperatures are predicted to soar to the 90’s by the…
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What I Read In March
March was a hugely productive reading month for me. I finished nine books (one of them an audiobook) and mostly enjoyed the things I read, though there really wasn’t that ‘killer’ book that knocked my reading socks off. A bunch of decent reads is much better than a run of stinkers, though, so I’m not…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/30
Hello! I hope you’ve had a great week. Mine has been busy, interesting yet mostly routine, aside from a curious bout of stomach flu that overtook me on Friday and yesterday. Thankfully, I am feeling much better today. My book group met on Tuesday evening and we discussed The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.…
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Recent Arrivals
I am having a devil of a time writing about books these days. As soon as I sit down at the computer to write about a book I’ve finished my mouth goes dry and my mind goes blank. Is there such a thing as blogging anxiety? I can’t seem to find a way around this,…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/23
Hello there! I missed a Sunday Bulletin last week as I worked the entire weekend and just didn’t find time to write up a post. I’ve been reading like a madwoman lately and many evenings I don’t even turn on my computer. I feel that I’m not very effective at time management because so many…
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The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Have you heard of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence? It is a fairly new award (started in 2012) for fiction and nonfiction that is given out every June by the American Library Association. The award is chosen by a group of library professionals. The committee’s chairman is Nancy Pearl, the only librarian who has…
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Elizabeth Bowen
“In these surrounding little streets, lit up like aquariums and tonight anonymous, saunterers passed me in vague shoals”. – from A Time In Rome “The cautious steps of women when something has happened came downstairs, sending vibrations up the spine of the house.” – from The House in Paris “It came to be rumoured that everybody…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/9
Hello! How has your week been? I can’t believe that it’s already the second Sunday of March, though I’m sure that most of you are joyful that we’re swiftly moving toward warmer weather. This week has been a heck of a good one for reading for me. I finished Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, Rainbow…
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The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker by Janet Groth
The Receptionist is a book that I’ve wanted to read since it was released a few years ago. Anything set in Manhattan in the sixties always appeals to me and to have it set in the literary world is especially enticing. I was gathering books for a Mad Men display at work and this title…
A Certain Fondness 