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Read This Next Giveaway Winners!

November 15, 2010

It’s time to announce our three winners, with some assistance from our friends at random.org. There were 18 comments and the Random Sequence Generator came up with 7, 16, and 9 as the randomly selected comments. That means our lucky winners are Michelle, PBurt from Reflections from the Hinterland, and Stephanie from Stephanie’s Written Word. [...]

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Read This Next, by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittelmark

November 9, 2010

Title: Read This Next Authors: Sandra Newman & Howard Mittelmark Pages: 414 Originally Published: 2010 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Rating: ____________________________ Are you looking for more excellent books to read? I think we all are. I personally love lists of excellent books. And Read This Next is a list of “500 of the [...]

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BBAW Interview – New Treasure

September 14, 2010

Book Blogger Appreciation Week has arrived!  It’s even bigger and better here in its third year, and this year’s BBAW interviews are no exception. I’m so excited to introduce you to my interview partner, Tricia from Ecclectic/Eccentric. Tricia and I (virtually) got together and came up with the following scintillating interview questions. Enjoy! 1. What [...]

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Roald Dahl Month

September 4, 2010

September is Roald Dahl Month, with Roald Dahl Day falling on his birthday – September 13th! Since the inimitable Roald Dahl is one of my favorite authors of all time, I’m going to try and reread a few of my favorites this month. Here’s what I’m hoping to read: The Witches James and the Giant [...]

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Bleak House Readalong – Week 1

August 26, 2010

How are you all doing on Bleak House? I admit that I’m a little behind the group. According to the schedule, I should be through Chapter 7 and working on Chapters 8-13. But, I confess, Mockingjay threw that all off. (It was worth it, though.) Anyway, I’m on page 53 of my Barnes & Noble [...]

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Bleak House Readalong

August 7, 2010

One of the goals I set for this year of Reading Deliberately is to read a new-to-me book by Charles Dickens. I didn’t pick a specific book, but I thought it might be Bleak House. I’ve been wanting to read Bleak House since my sister-in-law recommended it a couple of years ago and since my [...]

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50th Anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird

July 11, 2010
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week – Registration Post

July 7, 2010

Hello, everyone out there in book blogosphere land. It’s time, once again for Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW). It’s coming up in September, but it’s time to register now! Today is the deadline, in fact. I’m registering my blog in the literary fiction niche. And I am submitting it for an award in that niche, [...]

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