07 Friday Oct 2016
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Daphne du Maurier, Manderley, manderley party, Manderley theme, manderley themed party, Mrs de Winter party, Party themed to Rebecca, rebecca theme party
I hosted book club the other night and our selection was Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. A great choice for an October book club! Continue reading
28 Wednesday Sep 2016
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1960s, 1970s, book club, books, femininism, Meg Waite Clayton, novel, novel writing, The Wednesday Sisters, women's rights
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In 1967 a group of women bond at the playground in Palo Alto, California. They are different in background and personality, yet united in their love for family and in a dream, to be authors. They agree to meet once a week to critique each other’s work, while their children play. In time, this critique extends to the definition of who they are as women, in an era when the gold standard of feminine excellence is at it’s essence to be a successful homemaker or Miss America.
25 Sunday Sep 2016
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Book festival, geraldine brooks, kristin hannah, national book festival, national book festival 2016, stephen king
Yesterday I had a fabulous day downtown at the National Book Festival 2016. I went with 4 friends, who are all kindred souls when it comes to love of words. We arrived downtown ready to look around the festival, hear a speaker or two, and do a little shopping. Amazingly, at least to me, within the space of a few hours we each heard three authors speak and had multiple signed books.
Keep reading for highlights of the day and lessons we learned!
Artist: Yuko Shimizu. Downloadable pdf from loc.gov/bookfest
14 Sunday Aug 2016
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deborah lawrenson, fall, french perfume, gothic, lavender, modern gothic, october, october best reads, provence, the lantern
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If your book club is planning selections for fall already, you might want to consider The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson. It is a gothic tale best read when the days shorten and summer days are only just beginning to fade to memory. We read this in one of my book clubs for our October reading several years ago; in my view, it was the perfect book for that month. Continue reading
07 Thursday Jul 2016
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What Alice Forgot (Image from Amazon.com)
What perceptions do people have about you? What kind of person would they say you are? Alice Love finds out.
01 Friday Jul 2016
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art of racing, book club, dog, dogs, racing, racing in the rain
If you have a dog be ready to give him/her lots of extra love while reading this book. In fact you may pet your dog so much he actually gets tired of the attention and walks away from you!
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19 Sunday Jun 2016
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book club, books, Kate Morton, novel, secret, world war two, wwII
![The Secret Keeper: A Novel by [Morton, Kate]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51y4p1CDQIL.jpg)
