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April 30, 2015 book reviews, reading

Book Talk: SISTERS OF HEART AND SNOW, by Margaret Dilloway (via Shelf Awareness)

Sisters of Heart and Snow Margaret Dilloway (Twitter) (Facebook) G.P. Putnam’s Sons (April 7, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 0399170804 / 9780399170805) Fiction: 400 pages, $26.95 A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (April 21, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. —————————————————————————————————————- The story of Tomoe Gozen, a twelfth-century Japanese onna-musha (the female equivalent […]

April 16, 2015 book reviews, reading

(Audio)Book Talk: FUNNY GIRL, by Nick Hornby, read by Emma Fielding

Funny Girl: A Novel Nick Hornby (Facebook) Audiobook read by Emma Fielding Riverhead Books (2015), Hardcover (ISBN 1594205418 / 9781594205415) Fiction, 464 pages Source: Purchased audiobook (Penguin Audio, February 2015, ISBN 9780698195653; Audible ASIN B00RC52GMQ) In my opinion, Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl has a somewhat misleading title. Calling this novel Funny Show might reflect its premise a bit more accurately, because it’s not so much about a comedienne as it is the team and the […]

April 14, 2015 book reviews, reading

A Reader’s Journal: SCREENING ROOM: FAMILY PICTURES, by Alan Lightman

Screening Room: Family Pictures Alan Lightman Audiobook read by Bronson Pinchot Pantheon (2015), Hardcover (ISBN 0307379396 / 9780307379399) Nonfiction: memoir, 272 pages Source: Purchased audiobook (Blackstone Audio, February 2015, ISBN 9781481504881; Audible ASIN B00STZ9WLQ) “I will always live here, but I cannot live here,” Alan Lightman reflects near the end of Screening Room: Family Pictures, having just spent nearly a month back in Memphis, Tennesssee—the longest visit he’s made to his hometown since going north […]

April 7, 2015 book reviews, reading

Book Talk: KEEP THE ENDS LOOSE, by Molly D. Campbell

Keep the Ends Loose Molly D. Campbell (Twitter) (Facebook) The Story Plant (March 3, 2015), Trade paper original (ISBN 1611882044 / 9781611882049) Fiction (YA), 294 pages Source: Publisher via Netgalley The search is over for several of Molly D. Campbell’s characters—they have found their novel, and they’re in for a very eventful summer in Keep the Ends Loose. Ohio teenager Mandy Heath is anxious about her upcoming freshman year of high school, but other than that, […]

April 2, 2015 book reviews, reading

A Reader’s Journal: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D. Audiobook read by Stephen Hoye Scribner (2011), Trade paper (ISBN 1439170916 / 9781439170915) Nonfiction: science/medicine, 608 pages Source: Purchased audiobook (Tantor Media, November 2010; Audible ASIN B004CJR4L8) A PBS documentary based on the book was released March 30, 2015 ——————————————————————————————————————– In January of this year, my husband Paul was diagnosed with a melanoma. The growth was surgically removed and biopsied, as was […]

March 31, 2015 book reviews, reading

Book Talk: AMERICAN GHOST, by Hannah Nordhaus (via Shelf Awareness)

American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest Hannah Nordhaus (Facebook) (Twitter) Harper (March 10, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 0062249215 / 9780062249210) Nonfiction: history/biography, 336 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (March 24, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. For decades, stories have circulated that the historic La Posada […]

March 19, 2015 book reviews, reading

Shelf Awareness Book Talk: LIFE FROM SCRATCH, by Sasha Martin

Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness Sasha Martin (Facebook) (Twitter) National Geographic (March 3, 2015), Hardcover, ISBN 1426213743 / 9781426213748) Nonfiction; memoir/food (with recipes), 336 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (March 6, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. ———————————————————————————————————— Flavors, fragrances, and the experience […]

February 19, 2015 book reviews, reading

Book Talk: GOLDEN STATE, by Stephanie Kegan

Golden State: A Novel Stephanie Kegan (Twitter) (Facebook) Simon & Schuster (February 17, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 1476709319 / 9781476709314) Fiction, 304 pages Source: ARC from publisher, via Netgalley What would you do if you had reason to suspect your brother—once brilliant and promising, but now reclusive and strange—might be a terrorist? How might it feel to realize that the objects of his attacks were, indirectly, the legacy of your father? Where do you go when […]

February 17, 2015 book reviews, reading

Book Talk: BLUE STARS by Emily Gray Tedrowe (via Shelf Awareness)

Blue Stars: A Novel Emily Gray Tedrowe (Twitter) St. Martin’s Press (February 17, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 1250052483 / 9781250052483) Fiction, 352 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (February 6, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. ———————————————————————————————————— The questionable healthcare and housing conditions with which Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital confronted […]

February 3, 2015 reading

Book Talk: MY FATHER’S WIVES, by Mike Greenberg (via Shelf Awareness)

My Father’s Wives: A Novel Mike Greenberg (Twitter) William Morrow (January 20, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 0062325868 / 9780062325860) Fiction, 240 pages Parts of of this review were previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (January 27, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. ————————————————————————————————————- Sports-radio host Mike Greenberg has followed up the three female protagonists of his first novel, […]

January 22, 2015 reading

(Audio)Book Talk: UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (read by Edward Herrmann)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand (Facebook) Audiobook read by Edward Herrmann Random House (November 2010), Hardcover (ISBN 1400064163 / 9781400064168) Nonfiction: biography/history, 496 pages Source: Purchased audiobook (Random House Audio, November 2010, ISBN 9780739319703; Audible ASIN B004CJN7TG) ———————————————————————————————————— Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit was, and remains, one of my favorite books from the decade before I blogged: “I never went through that pre-teen horse-loving phase so many girls do, […]

January 20, 2015 reading

Book Talk: SAVAGE PARK, by Amy Fusselman (via Shelf Awareness)

Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die Amy Fusselman (Twitter) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 13, 2015), Hardcover (ISBN 0544303008 / 9780544303003) Nonfiction: social science/memoir, 144 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (January 16, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and […]

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