Why hello there! I wanted to take time out from my regular bookish postings to welcome any new readers who have wandered over this way as a result of BookExpo America or the Book Blogger Convention. What a fantastic week! I attended Book Expo last year for the first time and participated as a [...]
Some authors simply do not have the talent to read their own books aloud. This is not the case for Richard Russo. Having attended a reading and signing of The Kings English Bookshop in the fall, I could not get his voice out of my head while reading his latest novel, That Old Cape Magic. [...]
My two little boys, age four and three, love Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban and illustrated by Henry Cole. I secretly wish that I could keep the pages of picture books perfectly crisp and pristine but then I have to tell myself that if that was the case in my house, then nobody would [...]
Dream Big: Six Tips for BEA Newbies
For some reason, when I think of newcomers to Book Expo America, I flash back to the end of Pretty Woman. Not that I’m a big fan — I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about Julia Roberts’ streetwise Cinderella — but the film’s last line sums [...]
The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart is a lovely book. Georgia has been best friends with Riley for forever. They had been the queens of finger paints and mud pancakes. Now teens and ten years into their friendship, at a time when they are both redefining themselves, both travel together from their [...]
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