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• Book Review :: Good Things I Wish You

  
  Lit&Leisure — Authority: 101
  A. Manette Ansay’s prose is the comforting arms of a familiar lover. In the afternoon I read Good Things I Wish You , I was immediately home and nodding agreement with her beautiful language. It wasn’t the roller-coaster ride of discovering something new, but a gentle cadence that is completely fulfilling, ...
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• "Go Tesla!" "Go Science!"

  
  We Be Reading — Authority: 100
  Yes, that is Nikola Tesla with two lightning-shooting guns and some stylish goggles, flanked by his assistant Tim and being goaded on by the one and only Mark Twain. The Five Fists of Science  is a short graphic novel, written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Steven Sanders. With an irresistible title, this was an ...
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• Where Wildflowers Bloom Book Tour + Exciting Contest!

  
  Giveaway Lady — Authority: 113
  Well, I have plenty of book reviews this week. Seems like a week for reviews:) Today I have one of those sweet stories that you want to read on this type of day. Where Wildflowers Bloom is by Ann Shorey and is just one of those stories. Ann is a wonderful writer that really pulls you into the book. Check out my ...
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• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

  
  Reading Matters — Authority: 461
  Fiction - paperback; Canongate; 309 pages; 2009. It seems fitting to review Kate Grenvilles novel The Lieutenant on the eve of Australia Day , because the book focuses on an officer of the First Fleet . First Fleet astronomer Lieutenant Daniel Rooke is a young astronomer who sails to Australia, from ...
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• Why Rosemary Sutcliff translates so well into German

  
  Rosemary Sutcliff — Authority: 109
  Anjy posted a fascinating comment at the You Write! page about how well Rosemary Sutcliff‘s style translates into German, and about her powers of description. I have been addicted to Sutcliff’s book for about 40 years now. I have read everything by her in German and a lot in English and she is one of the [...]
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• Hello Wharton Abbey: In Celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th Birthday: Her Novels and Their Legacy: Guest Blog by Lev Raphael

  
  Austenprose — Authority: 455
  “True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” – Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, designer, and taste-setter of her time was born 150 years ago today. Huzzah! Renown for her novels: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The ...
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• let it spill

  
  Karleen Koen - Writing Life — Authority: 92
  Thoughts from the week………………………… First, a poem leaps out at me as I resume the habit of reading poetry daily: My Cup by Robert Friend They tell me I am going to die. Why don’t I seem to care? My cup is full. Let it spill. Brave, bold words which strike hard at the me who has no ...
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• The Winter Palace - Blog Tour day 5 - exclusive trailer and competiton

  
  Between The Lines — Authority: 89
  Day 5 of Eva Stachniak’s blog tour for her brilliant novel on Catherine the Great - The Winter Palace - and we can finally reveal the UK trailer. Click here to see the trailer. Everyone’s talking about The Winter Palace , descibed by The Daily Telegraph as ‘a wonderful novel, riven with intrigue ...
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• Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go by Naomi Dathan

  
  ...............FIRST Wild Card Tours — Authority: 407
  Tour Date: January 25th When the tour date arrives, copy and paste the HTML Provided in the box. Dont forget to add your honest review if you wish! PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST WHEN THE TOUR COMES AROUND! Grab the HTML for the entire post (will look like the post below): It is time for a FIRST Wild ...
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• Harald Hadrada, The Last Viking, by Michael Burr

  
  Bookgeeks — Authority: 114
  Harald’s small warband surrounded the convent while a couple of warriors went a short way up the road to intercept any escapees and warn of any rescuers. Then the main band went in, seeking supplies, loot, and their pleasure with the nuns, in all of which they were fully satisfied. Sure enough a horseman burst away, ...
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• My Civil War novel A Fine Likeness on sale for only $2.99. Happy Valentines Day!

  
  Midlist Writer — Authority: 85
  Um. . .isnt Valentines Day February 14? Yes it is, but I love my readers so much Ive decided to celebrate early. From now until the day after Valentines Day (Feb. 15) Im discounting my Civil War novel A Fine Likeness to $2.99. My novel has been out two months now and Ive received some wonderful reviews and a ...
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• Hearts in Flight by Patty Smith Hall

  
  Creative Madness Mama — Authority: 421
  Hearts in Flight by Patty Smith Hall Genre: Christian Historical Romance 1943 – Georgia Pages: 288 Mass Market Paperback or eBook Date Published: July 5th 2011 Publisher: Love Inspired Historical Serving her country as one of the Women’s Army Special Pilots is Maggie Daniels’s dearest wish. But there are ...
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• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

  
  Into the Book — Authority: 99
  A Tale of Two Cities is not exactly an excellent book to pick up after a long absence. It’s a little difficult to follow and moves a little slower than “modern” books, but don’t let that detract you from this book at all. It has earned its place as one of my favorite Dickens novels yet. The year is 1775. ...
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• The Prestige by Christopher Priest

  
  things mean a lot — Authority: 525
  The Prestige opens in the present day, when a young reporter named Andrew Westley travels to meet Kate Angier, a reclusive woman he first met as a child. Both Andrew and Kate feel that something important happened during that first meeting of theirs long ago, but neither of them really knows how to explain this ...
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• Guest review: The Crown

  
  Bermudaonion's Weblog — Authority: 112
  I’m happy to say my sister’s back with a wonderful review!  I didn’t think this book was for me, but after reading what she has to say, I may just have to give it a try. The year is 1537 and England’s religious houses are under siege.  The King has separated himself from the Catholic church and established ...
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• Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt, 368 pp, RL MIDDLE GRADE

  
  books4yourkids.com — Authority: 405
  If you read my review of Gary D Schmidts book The Wednesday Wars, you might know that Okay for Now plucks a minor character from Holling Hoodhoods story and shines the spotlight on what turns out to be a very dramatic year in the life of Doug Swieteck. And, if you read my review you also know that, while I have long ...
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• The Winter Palace - Eva Stachniak

  
  Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover — Authority: 105
  This wonderful historical novel has just been published and the author Eva Stachniak has dropped by on Random Jottings to tell us a little about herself and how she sets about researching and writing her books: "I’ve been an academic for many years, so I’m familiar with the rigors of searching for the right ...
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• City of Orphans by Avi

  
  Books We Love from the Park Ridge Public Library Children's Staff — Authority: 99
  Maks is a “newsie” in New York City in 1893. He is selling The World. His parents are Danish immigrants and his family is struggling to make ends meet. Every penny counts. One day Maks is cornered in an alley by a gang of teenagers who are trying to drive off the newsies. Maks decides to fight but is losing ...
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• Book review: ‘History Of A Pleasure Seeker’ by Richard Mason

  
  write meg! — Authority: 107
  Twenty-four-year-old Piet Barol is handsome, seductive, manipulative — and poor. After his mother’s death, Piet uses her many lessons and attempts to elevate him beyond his meager circumstances to seek wealth and employment far from his sad, boring past. In belle époque Amsterdam, Piet interviews for a ...
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• The Ballad of Tom Dooley, by Sharyn McCrumb

  
  Blogging for a Good Book — Authority: 411
  Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and cry. Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, Poor boy, you’re bound to die. If you don’t recognize the words to the folksong as recorded by The Kingston Trio you have seriously misspent your life.  A #1 hit in 1958, it sold 6 million copies, has been added ...
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