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Giveaway Winner
The winner of This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman is: #5 Elizabeth Congratulations, Elizabeth! Please email me (link to my email in the sidebar) with your address. Thanks to all who entered – I appreciate everyone who reads and comments on my blog!
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4 Outstanding…Historical Novels
1. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin – Set in ’50’s Ireland and New York, this sparely written novel centers on the story of Eilis Lacey and her immigration from Ireland to bustling Brooklyn. Eilis is a complex and reserved character, a young girl who is feeling her way through life while working hard and experiencing first love.…
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Gudrun’s Tights Giveaway! Win a Copy of This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman (closed)
Harper Perennial has graciously offered a copy of This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman to one lucky reader of Gudrun’s Tights.! I read this book last summer and was very impressed by the insightful way Ms. Schulman chronicles the pitfalls of modern life. The novel tells the story of the Bergamot family who’s teen son gets…
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Classics Challenge – February
The prompt for this month’s A Classics Challenge concerns character. I have the easiest book in the world to choose a character from – Great Expectations. No, I still haven’t finished it! I am almost there, though, and am really enjoying it and the extremely memorable characters Dickens uses to populate his story. Pip, Magwitch,…
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‘Letters mingle Souls’
A hastily read tweet from a few days ago has inspired in me a determination to write small notes of regard and love to friends, family and acquaintances through the month of February. From Twitter I learned that author Mary Robinette Kowal has issued a Month of Letters Challenge that urges participants to send a letter…
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Loving by Henry Green
When Stu at Winstonsdad’s Blog proposed a Henry Green Week I instantly decided to participate. I had bought a really lovely 1953 copy of Loving by Green some years before and had never even cracked it open. It sat lingering on my shelf until I moved last summer when it was put into a…
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Holds Happy
One of the pitfalls of working at a library is the enormous temptation to place holds on every wonderful sounding book I hear about. I go holds crazy sometimes and place far too many holds than are good for me. I have to give myself a good talking to, remind myself not to be greedy…
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Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
Another Mary Stewart, another thumbs up! Touch Not the Cat is my second Mary Stewart and I enjoyed it just as much as the first. Like Thornyhold it is a combination romance/suspense/family drama that is smart, thrilling and has that sprinkling of the supernatural that I so enjoy. Bryony Ashley is telepathic. Not just with…
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Welcome, Welcome!
Hello to anyone who has walked down the path from my old home to my new abode. Thanks for coming over! How about a cup of tea? Coffee? A glass of lemonade? I have some fresh cinnamon muffins just out of the oven and a cozy nook for us to sit in. What shall we…
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
There is a magical quality to Willa Cather’s writing that greatly affects me. I have long been an admirer of My Antonia and can’t read more than 2 sentences of that entrancing novel without getting teary. It’s not so much the subject matter that moves me (though it does) but the words themselves, the images…
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