Month: August 2012

Shelf Awareness Book Talk: *Motherless Child*, by Marianne Langner Zeitlin
August 7, 2012 reading

Shelf Awareness Book Talk: *Motherless Child*, by Marianne Langner Zeitlin

Motherless Child Marianne Langner Zeitlin Zephyr Press (July 2012), trade paper original (ISBN 0983297053 / 9780983297055) Fiction, 300 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (August 3, 2012), which provided an advance reader’s copy and compensation. Opening Lines: “At nine-thirty on a cool November morning in 1977, Elizabeth Guaragna picked up a copy of the New York Times from a a vendor at her subway station and, in […]

Miscellaneous Monday Mentions and Intentions
August 6, 2012 randomness

Miscellaneous Monday Mentions and Intentions

You may have noticed I wasn’t around here much last week. Or maybe you didn’t. Lots of folks were doing the “bloggers IRL” thing at BlogHer’12 in New York City, which usually means that blogging is the last thing they have time for. We’re deep in the “dog days” of summer, and those vacation days are dwindling; most schools here will be back in session in another two or three weeks, depending on the district. […]