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      • Recipe :: Cranberry Orange Cake
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      • Recipe :: Cinnamon Rolls
      • Recipe :: Lemon Sugar Cookies
      • Recipe :: Salted Toffee Cookies
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Category: Book Reviews

Book Reviews Posted onMarch 15, 2010

Book on Tape Review :: On Chesil Beach

I have a confession to make. I tried not once, but twice, to read Atonement and just couldn’t do it. I feel like I have […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onMarch 13, 2010

Book Review :: Men and Dogs

I haven’t read Katie Crouch’s Girls in Trucks. It was one of those peripheral books I heard about here & there – good things at that […] Read More

Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed
Book Reviews Posted onMarch 10, 2010May 21, 2018

Book on Tape Review :: The Hour I First Believed

Wally Lamb is one of the authors I put on my TBR list last year. While I purchased She’s Come Undone, when I saw The […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onMarch 6, 2010

Book Review :: The Outcast

I was reading a fellow reviewers blog recently and saw that she had described a book as delicate. It occurred to me that of all […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onFebruary 23, 2010

Book Review :: The Weight of Heaven

Thrity Umrigar’s The Space Between Us was probably my favorite read from 2009. So I was excited to learn about The Weight of Heaven and […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onFebruary 13, 2010

Book Review :: Saving CeeCee Honeycut

Dear future novelist, If you were not raised below the Mason-Dixon, please do not try to write about the South in your first attempt. All […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onFebruary 10, 2010

First, let me say that I am only on page 87 of this novel. Second….

I have never wanted to edit a book so badly as I’ve wanted to for the first 80 pages of Saving CeeCee Honeycut. Actually, I’ve […] Read More

Book Reviews, Miscellaneous Posted onFebruary 5, 2010

Current Reads

It has been a long while since I’ve written a post about my current reads, but since (1) I am reading two books at time […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onFebruary 4, 2010

Book on Tape Review :: Our Lady of the Forest

I’ve been debating if I should post a review on this one or not, and obviously I decided in favor. When I started this blog […] Read More

Book Reviews Posted onFebruary 1, 2010

Book Review :: The Memory Thief

The Memory Thief by Rachel Keener tells the story – in alternating voices – of two young girls, both victims of abusive homes and in […] Read More

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