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Between the Covers
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A book blog dedicated to book reviews and other bookish discussion.
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Reading Wrap-Up: May 2012

We’re halfway through the year already–can you believe it? I am loving the warmer weather, and I’m looking forward to the kids being done with school so I can sleep in every day. Oh...

15 h ago

Book Review: Overseas by Beatriz Williams

Click to view on Amazon Overseas by Beatriz Williams Fiction — Historical / Romantic Putnam; May 10, 2012 Paperback (ARC) 456 pages Synopsis from the back cover: When twenty-something Wall Stre...

3 days ago

Volcano and When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo

Click to view on Amazon Volcano by Shusaku Endo Fiction Peter Owen Publishers, March 2012 Paperback 175 pages Synopsis from the back cover: One of Shusaku Endo’s finest works of fiction, Volcan...

5 days ago

TTT: My Favorite Sites/Blogs (That Aren’t About Books)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday asks us to list our ten favorite blogs or websites that aren’t about b...

23 may 12

Book Review: Naples Declared by Benjamin Taylor

Click to view on Amazon Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay by Benjamin Taylor Nonfiction — History / Travel A Marion Wood Book/Putnam; May 10, 2012 Paperback (ARC) 210 pages Description fro...

21 may 12

New Reading Project: Margaret Atwood

Yesterday, Brenna of Literary Musings blogged about her favorite book blogs (which you should really check out because there are some really great blogs listed there). I was only familiar with three ...

17 may 12

Some (Scattered) Thoughts About Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Click to view on Amazon Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Fiction — Classic Lit. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1991 Paperback 768 pages This is not going to be a formal review. I spent an en...

16 may 12

Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Best Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was originally supposed to be “Top Ten Authors I’d Like To See O...

15 may 12

Book Review: Lizz Free or Die by Lizz Winstead

Click to view on Amazon Lizz Free or Die: Essays by Lizz Winstead Nonfiction — Essays / Comedy / Memoir Riverhead Books; May 10, 2012 Hardcover 320 pages This is a book of essays about life. My...

11 may 12

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten of My Favorite Quotes From Toni Morrison

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. It has been a long time since I’ve participated in Top Ten Tuesday, but this week’s prompt is righ...

09 may 12

Book Review: In One Person by John Irving

Click to view on Amazon In One Person by John Irving Fiction Simon & Schuster Release date: May 8, 2012 Hardcover 448 pages Synopsis from the publisher: In One Person is narrated by Billy Abbott,...

07 may 12

Reading Wrap-Up: April 2012

Um…where did April go? It really feels like it has only been a couple of weeks since I typed up the reading wrap-up for March. But I did some exciting things in April! Eric and I built a new bo...

02 may 12

Book Review: The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang

Click to view on Amazon The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang Nonfiction — Memoir Riverhead Books; April 26, 2012 Paperback (ARC) 262 pages Father made me Grandma’s coff...

01 may 12

Let’s Discuss the Cover of Vanity Fair, Shall We?

This month’s discussion for the November’s Autumn Classics Challenge is all about book covers: What are your first impressions as you look at the cover? Does the book cover have an aspect...

30 apr 12

A New Look and Many Thanks

Last week, as I was working on my blog, I realized that I wasn’t really happy with the way it looked. I know, I know, I just changed its look relatively recently (maybe six months ago or so?), ...

29 apr 12

Every Book Needs a Home

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” –Anna Quindlen NEW BOOKCASE! Eric was ...

25 apr 12

Book Review: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

Click to view on Amazon The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers Fiction — Speculative Harper Perennial (HarperCollins) U.S. Release Date: May 15, 2012 Paperback 256 pages In the not-too-dis...

24 apr 12

Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Click to view on Amazon Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson Memoir Amy Einhorn/Putnam Books; April 17, 2012 Hardcover 336 pages If you are not familiar wit...

19 apr 12

Winner, Winner, Bookish Dinner!

We have a winner for the personalized, signed copy of The Gods of Gotham! Drumroll, please… The winner is Amy! Congratulations, Amy! I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the bo...

09 apr 12

Giveaway: Win a Personalized, Signed Copy of Lyndsay Faye’s The Gods of Gotham

The "worthiest successor yet to Caleb Carrs The Alienist." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR Yesterday, I reviewed Lyndsay Faye’s latest historical thriller, The Gods of Gotham: Set against the...

06 apr 12

Book Review: The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

Click to view on Amazon The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye Historical Fiction/Mystery Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam; March 15, 2012 Advance Review Copy (Paperback) 414 pages From the inside flap: It is 18...

05 apr 12

National Poetry Month: “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley(1849-1903) April is National Poetry Month, and although I am not a faithful reader of poetry, I do have my favorite poets and poems. During the month of April, I will be posting...

03 apr 12

Reading Wrap-Up: March 2012, and some words from Langston Hughes

March was a bad month for me in terms of mood, reading books, and blogging. I have been very distracted for reasons that aren’t appropriate for me to write about here, and it has been more impo...

01 apr 12

Mount TBR Challenge Checkpoint, March 2012

It’s time for the first Mount TBR Challenge check-in, and I must report that I haven’t read as many books from my TBR pile as I would have liked. This always happens–I vow that I...

29 mar 12

A Non-Fiction Adventure, Hosted by The True Book Addict

Click to sign up! Expanding on the idea of Jillian’s Classics Club, Michelle of the True Book Addict has decided to start a non-fiction reading club, aptly named A Non-Fiction Adventure. Simila...

21 mar 12

Book Review: The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Click to view on Amazon The Crucible by Arthur Miller Introduction by Christopher Bigsby Play (based on real events) Penguin Classics, 1995 Paperback 176 pages Written in 1953, The Crucible is a play...

20 mar 12

The Classics Club, Hosted by A Room of One’s Own

Click to sign up on A Room of Ones Own Jillian of A Room of One’s Own came up with an awesome idea to host a book club of sorts, which she has named The Classics Club. The idea is for individual read...

07 mar 12

Reading Wrap-Up: February 2012

Happy 1st day of March–it’s almost spring! Although, I don’t know why I’m so excited about spring since we didn’t really have any winter to speak of. I don’t know ...

01 mar 12

Book Review: Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung

Click to view on Amazon Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung Fiction Riverhead Books Release Date: March 1, 2012 Paperback (review copy) 296 pages From the back cover: On the night Janie waits for he...

27 feb 12

A Toni Morrison Marathon: Join Me!

photo: Ron Brown Scholar Program website So. Let’s talk about Toni Morrison for a moment, shall we? Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison has a new novel coming out in May, whic...

21 feb 12

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