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Cover Collection: The Great Gatsby
1. Penguin Modern Classics // 2. Penguin Classics Hardback // 3. Scribner // 4. Oxford World’s Classics //5. Vintage Classics // 6. Penguin Classics Which cover do you like best? I think I prefer #2 and #3. Here are some links that caught my eye this week: Simple Village Girl visits Lacock which was the model for…
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eReading vs. Traditional Reading
I’ve owned a Kindle for close to two years now and a few weeks ago I realized that I have read less than 10 books on it. I have tons of books downloaded on the device – lots of out-of-print titles and other copyright free titles – but I don’t read them. And I have…
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Sometimes I jump on bandwagons – never for sports teams, but occasionally for books. Last week I decided to jump on the Gone Girl bandwagon. This cunning thriller has been the talk of the summer at my library and has been mentioned on almost every ‘Best Books of Summer’ list I’ve seen. There are still over…
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Giveaway Winner & New Purchases
Congratulations, Manda! I hope you enjoy The Blank Wall as much as I did. Please contact me at gudrunstights(at)gmail.com with your shipping address. I recently got a raise at work after not having had one for a few years. I’m not sure why, but this propelled me to go on a little book buying…
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Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
For my fifth Mary Stewart novel I decided to read the very first book she published, in 1955, Madam, Will You Talk? This action-packed thriller is set in the South of France and is the first-person account of Charity Selborne and the trouble she finds herself in just for being nice to a little boy.…
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The Blank Wall Giveaway (Closed) + Raspberry Oat Muffins
What better way to share your favorite books then by giving them away to others? I want to spread the word about my top books of the year so far so I am giving away 1 copy of The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. This suspense novel set during World War II is a…
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Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nielson
Heaven is Here is not the type of book I usually read. I rarely read memoirs, especially ones that chronicle triumph over hardship. However, I’ve been following Stephanie Nielson’s story ever since she and her husband Christian were horribly burned in an airplane crash in August of 2008. At the time they were living in Mesa,…
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North & South Read-a-long + Mary Stewart
I’m really enthusiastically happy to be participating in the North and South Readalong in August. The readalong is hosted by Andi at Estella’s Revenge and Heather at Capricious Reader. I’ve never read North and South before, though I have seen the magnificent film adaptation so know the general storyline. The first 8 chapters are due…
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Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Translated by Irene Ash Our last day in Paris and I spent it reading Bonjour Tristesse – a very stylish little novella that was published when Francoise Sagan was just 18 years old. The main character, Cecile, is about the same age as the author and this story chronicles the dramatic summer she spends in the South…
A Certain Fondness 