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      • Recipe :: Lemon Sugar Cookies
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Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Books Posted onMay 2, 2019

Book Review :: The Favorite Daughter

Just in time for packing your summer beach bag, Patti Callahan Henry is providing The Favorite Daughter to help you stock it. Set mostly in a […] Read More

Review of Our Prince of Scribes
Book Reviews, Books Posted onJanuary 4, 2019January 12, 2019

Book Review :: Our Prince of Scribes

I never meet Pat Conroy. I’m sure that given the number of book festivals and signings that I’ve followed, there was plenty of opportunity. The […] Read More

Amor Towles
Book Clubs, Books, Out and About, Podcast Posted onMarch 13, 2018February 16, 2024

Meet the Author :: Amor Towles

Amor Towles wrote Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow – two of my favorite books from last year. When I learned that he […] Read More

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books Posted onSeptember 17, 2017February 16, 2024

Book Review :: Rules of Civility

Twelve pages from the end of Rules of Civility, Amor Towels, in the voice of Tinker Grey, describes Manhattan as “so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full […] Read More

Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books Posted onJuly 22, 2017October 13, 2017

Book Clubs :: Year End Wrap Up for 2016-17

I’m a little late, but I’ve just finished the wrap up of our book club’s 2016-17 reading year. We started doing something a little different […] Read More

Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books, Featured Posted onApril 28, 2017October 8, 2017

Book Clubs :: SOC Sistas Long List 2017-2018

It’s that time of year when my book club is making its selection for the 10 books it will read in the upcoming year. We […] Read More

Go Set a Watchman
Book Reviews, Books Posted onAugust 15, 2015July 24, 2018

Book Review :: Go Set a Watchman

Many of you have been asking, but it is hard to know where to begin. My thoughts on Go Set a Watchman. Does Go Set […] Read More

Book of Marie
Book Reviews, Books, Out and About Posted onApril 5, 2014August 12, 2018

Book Review :: The Book of Marie

He calls it his most important work. The Book of Marie by Terry Kay is an epistolary novel that spans fifty years of Cole Bishop’s […] Read More

Book Reviews, Out and About Posted onMarch 15, 2014August 3, 2018

Book Review :: A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff

A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff: The Great Recession and the Death of Small Town Georgia by William Rawlings I met William Rawlings at a literary […] Read More

I had the honor of photographing the John C. Maxwell Leadership Center Groundbreaking
Book Reviews, Books Posted onJune 27, 2012January 9, 2013

John C. Maxwell :: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, part 2

The beginning of the post is from Saturday, so if you haven’t read it, skip on over to it now. In this first chapter, Maxwell […] Read More

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