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#99 ~ The Seamstress
The Literate Housewife Review | 7 hours ago by Jennifer Conner
The Seamstress: A Novel by Frances De Pontes Peebles Some of the best aspects of reading fiction are visiting places you may never otherwise see and providing a glimpse of what it might be like to live in a different time in history. The Seamstress read more
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Essential Wild | 8 hours ago by Plant EO
Reliable sources, pictures, topic summaries, and more! Get credible answers from published reference sources like Oxford University Press, Britannica, and Columbia Encyclopedia. Find these sources and more at HighBeam Encyclopedia – the best in onl read more
Robert Giroux
clusterflock | 8 hours ago by clusterflock
died. If you’re a complete book nerd like I am, you’ll know what this means. read more
Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
clusterflock | 8 hours ago by clusterflock
“She was very beautiful, curiously beautiful, for a person in her station. She was very like that Lady Hamilton who was Nelson’s sorceress– elegantly beautiful, but perfectly low and stupid. I believe, to do him justice, he only int read more
Marge Piercy's ode to coffee from The Writer's Almanac
Food Magazine | 10 hours ago by BS
I don't know exactly when I discovered The Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keillor's daily show that includes a poem and some highlights from that date in literary history, but it is a vital element in my morning routine. My mom listened to it when I was read more
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The Mind Reels | 12 hours ago by Cynthia W Gentry
YA Books I Recommend
JenWriter | 12 hours ago by JenWriter
Since I’ve gotten all into the YA writing world this year, I wanted to post some of my own favorite YA novels I’ve read. I’m going to post this as a tab up on top of the header as well and add to this as I go along. I thought since read more
Halima Bashir's Tears of the Desert
Bad Thinking | 15 hours ago by Hubert Xapier
Nicholas Kristof takes a look at Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Dr. Halima Bashir, "a young Darfuri woman whom the Sudanese authorities have tried to silence by beatings and gang-rape." read more
Saturday’s Me and You: 9/6/08
an unfinished person (in an unfinished universe) | 15 hours ago by unfinishedperson
ARGH! I had this whole thing done when somehow it was all lost, now having to start over. So won’t share everything from me (just giving highlights), but will instead focus more on you. Just a little of me @ an unfinished person (in an unfinish read more
Read One Book A Week
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | 16 hours ago by range
In case you are wondering, I already do this. I have been reading books all my life and have an expansive book collection. This article is by Nick Cernis and is a good way/reason to start reading right now! read more
First draft of “Eternal Vigilance, Book 2″ Finished!!
Eternal Vigilance | 17 hours ago by Gabrielle Faust
Last night I finished the first draft of Eternal Vigilance Book 2: The Death of Illusions!!!!!!! It’s still sinking in that it’s actually finished, that my second novel is FINISHED!!! Well, not really…now the oh so exquisitely painf read more
Have You Checked Out FieldReport?
The Literate Housewife Review | 17 hours ago by Jennifer Conner
There is an interesting new site up that is for writers, readers, and reviewers. It’s called FieldReport and you should definitely check it out. This is a place for writers who like to share the experiences that have shaped their lives. Th read more
a Para from Bangkok Haunts :D
A Psykotha | 17 hours ago by goh jee sheng
"you'll come as my assistant & bodyguard. He will not allow you into the room during negotiations, so I'll be wired. You'll have a recorder. You'll listen over a headset so you can claim to be a live witness if things go wrong. We'll make it lo read more
We’re Talking To Cindy Spencer Pape, author of Stone and Sea
Stories Rule! | 18 hours ago by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Today, we’re talking to Cindy Spencer Pape, Ellora’s Cave author of her latest novel, Stone and Sea: Sent to Atlantic City to retrieve an ancient artifact vital to the future of his clan, gargoyle Remy Rocher meets sexy selkie Marina Bell read more
Read a Book Day
If You Write It | 19 hours ago by Descartes
smakupfx made the books shown here-his work is very interesting.What was the Last Book You Read? Or more to the point, have you recently read a book at all? Maybe Read a Book Day would be a good time to start. Of course, looking at a blog is readi read more
A Nomination, Yeah!
The Literate Housewife Review | 19 hours ago by Jennifer Conner
The nominations for Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards were posted this week and I am so proud to say that I have been nominated in the Best Book Club Blog category! I am really shocked because my book club doesn’t start until a week from read more
Philadelphia and Baltimore Fight Over Edgar Allan Poe’s Body
Catherine Sherman | 19 hours ago by Catherine Sherman
It’s almost like a scene from one of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories –Philadelphia is trying to claim Poe’s body from Baltimore. Actually, I may have exaggerated. It’s only one person, but he makes a good case. Edwar read more
A thinking day
Food History | 20 hours ago by Gillian Polack
I promised recipes. The dateless missing-pieces sort that one only finds in handwritten cookbooks of unknown ancestry. That can wait. First I want to talk about the food history value of my new possession. Somehow I’m in historian mode toda read more
Master & Disasters of Cooking By Carol Preflatish
Groovy Inclinations | 20 hours ago by Mindy Wilson
Carol Preflatish has been a long time acquaintance of mine and fellow member of the writing group, Momwriters, along with my friend Kathryn LayCarol is the author of Masters & Disasters of CookingCongrats Carol! Recently, she took some time to ta read more
SSP TMR Rocks the House!
The Scholarly Kitchen | 20 hours ago
The SSP TMR has closed, but much of the meeting was captured. Here's your guide, and insights on why the meeting will evolve next year. read more
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Joh Blogs - Because I Can | 21 hours ago by joh
This book is part of a series of books about possible futures. I have been reading it since January as I commented on Cellobella’s post: The Uglies Trilogy. I really got into it the last couple of weeks when I’ve been resting off this col read more
The grandson of Ihsan Abd El-Koddous was arrested at the RNC
Egyptian chronicles | 21 hours ago by Zeinobia
Just like his grandfather and his uncle Ahmed Sharif Abd El-Koddous was arrested along with Amy Goodman and others while protesting at the RNC. I never knew that the grandson of famous novelist and journalist Ihsan Abd El-Koddous is living in the St read more
Author interview with Joshilyn Jackson
Bermudaonion's Weblog | 22 hours ago by Kathy
Joshilyn Jackson is the best-selling author of Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. She was born and raised in the Deep South. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Georgia State and her Master’s from read more
Counting Blessings
Tales from the Readin Room | 22 hours ago
I’ve been reading a lot of Barbara Pym novels lately, which is unusual as I read them all years ago and hardly ever pick up a book a second time. But Pym is one of those novelists whose voice is so particular and whose situations are so many variat read more
Is Matthew Scully a Traitor?
Animal Person | 22 hours ago by mary martin
I used to be Matthew Scully. As a ghostwriter, for about six years I wrote for people with whom I strongly disagree, and it was the most lucrative time of my career. I understand the mentality that you can change... read more
Terry Pratchett's latest reviewed
Bad Thinking | 23 hours ago by Hubert Xapier
By Amanda Craig for The Times, here. Pratchett's latest novel is Nation, and there is also a forthcoming guide to look forward to, The Folklore of Discworld, co-authored with folklorist Jacqueline Simpson. Related posts Terry Pratchett goes to the U read more
Interview with Brigitte Gabriel
Bad Thinking | 23 hours ago by Hubert Xapier
At the right-wing FrontPage Magazine site, here. Gabriel is the author of a new book, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. read more
Superbrands
Adeline reloaded | 23 hours ago by Adeline
Sunt happy caci ieri am capatat Superbrands, un catalog ce vorbeste despre 66 cele mai puternice branduri din Romania. E editat in 2006, de Superbrands Ltd. Intre timp, in 2007 a aparut si volumul al II-lea, editia Business. Poate il voi capata si pe read more
Anna Gavalda - Je L’Aimais
Incurable Logophilia | 23 hours ago by Verbivore
How wonderfully tricky French can be. I wrote on Thursday that I was reading Anna Gavalda’s novel Je L’Aimais and I translated the title as I Loved Him. But this was wrong - or at least it wasn’t exactly true. In French the article gets pla read more
The Dark Side
time4time | September 6th 2008 by Ralph Lichtensteiger
Jane Mayer's THE DARK SIDE is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world-- decisions that not only violated the Constitution to which White Hou read more
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