Sunday Salon

This marks my very first Sunday Salon.  For a couple weeks, I have been reading all your wonderful Sunday discussions and decided that I would give it a shot.  After all, we all have book-ish topics on our minds.  Some come up in our reading, others come up just because life throws them our way. [...]

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Challenge: RIP

Going through my blogroll this morning, I saw numerous posts about the RIP IV Challenge (Readers Imbibing Peril) hosted by Stainless Steel Droppings and I just couldn’t help myself – I had to join in the festivities.  The challenge, at whatever level you choose, involves reading books from the following categories between September 1, 2009 [...]

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Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Pick two random sentences from your current read. “For years she’d been telling Francis something was missing in their only child, fears he’d dismissed as her being critical and controlling.  Carley didn’t want [...]

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Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Enzo is not like other dogs.  He is so much more than a simple companion or the very cliched description of dogs as being “man’s best friend.”  No, Enzo is more like that little voice in the back of your head that tells you what’s right and what’s wrong because he really understands what’s going [...]

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Terrible Mondays: An Update with Some Musings

I have been so busy these past couple days!  I feel like I’m already beginning to neglect my blog.  In in the middle of reading The Art of Racing in the Rain and I’m absolutely loving it.  Expect a review either later today or tomorrow.  The book is difficult to put down because I am [...]

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