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Friday, October 19, 2018

Book Beginning: The Towers of Trebizond

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Thanks for your patience! I thought I had a post sc...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Teaser Tuesday: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser

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With the occupation had come a shift in the atmosphere of Biskupcova Street. Eyes no longer met, trust was undermined. --  The Book of ...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

Mailbox Monday: Art & Thrillers

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Two completely different books came into my house last week: a new art book and a new thriller. -- Mary Chomenko Hinckley: Material Evo...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Author Interview: Bram Presser

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Australian author Bram Presser 's new novel creates his grandparents' Holocaust story out of family history, imagination, old pho...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Book Beginning: A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm by John Dodge

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING An unexpected phone call and...
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Monday, October 8, 2018

Mailbox Monday: Son of Amity by Peter Nathaniel Malae

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I got one new book last week. What books came into your house? Son of Amity by Peter Nathaniel Malae . This novel of gritty, small town...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Book Beginning: Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING Some years ago Tom Powers, a...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Author Interview: Theresa Griffin Kennedy

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Author Theresa Griffin Kennedy is a native Portlander who has written an earlier nonfiction book about Portland's history of corr...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Mailbox Monday: The Shame of Losing by Sarah Cannon

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What books came into your house last week? I got a brand new memoir from a PNW writer. The Shame of Losing by Sarah Cannon. Days before...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Book Beginning: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING In the region of T, not far ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Author Interview: Beth Benedix

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Beth Benedix is the author of Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story . While she was ghostwriting a memoir for a holocaust...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Teaser Tuesday: Valley of Genius by Adam Fisher

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Steve Wozniak: The story of Apple is a little misunderstood. It's not like Steve and I did it ourselves. -- Valley of Genius: The ...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Mailbox Monday: Memoir, History, and Historical Fiction

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What books came into your house last week? Three interesting volumes came my way: Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill. This memo...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Book Beginning: Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING Dear Alice, Each morning I ...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Teaser Tuesday: The Girl Inside Me: Poems by Javelin Hardy

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There is a little girl inside of me Trapped, afraid and wanting to be set free. But I'm 33 now -- What is this little girl doi...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Mailbox Monday: Philip Roth

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What books came into your house last week? I filled in my Philip Roth TBR shelf with two of his books I haven't read yet. Roth is one ...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Favorite Author: Benjamin Black

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Benjamin Black is the pen name of Irish author John Banville . Writing in his own name, Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The S...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Book Beginning: Valley of Genius by Adam Fisher

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING I grew up in what is now kno...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

What Are They Reading? Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

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Authors tend to be readers, so it is natural for them to create characters who like to read. It is always interesting to me to read what ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Teaser Tuesday: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

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I remember my own baby pictures where a large black dot figured prominently on my temple.  Mom explained to me once that the black mark w...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Book Beginning: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

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BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING I was five years old when I ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Teaser Tuesday: I Know Now by Cinda Stevens Lonsway

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Something magical just happened. I feel different, altered, changed. --  I Know Now: A Woman's Healing: Violence to Victory, Trauma...
Monday, September 3, 2018

Mailbox Labor Day Monday: Transcendental Concord

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My friend Kirsten Rian wrote the concluding essay in a new, hauntingly beautiful book of art photography documenting the Transcendentalists ...
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