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Linda, a divorced mom, moves her two daughters Lindsay and Gracie from Montclair, New Jersey back home to Shem Creek. She reconnects with her sister, Mimi, meets new friends and, of course, bumps into the man of her dreams. Scenes of Shem Creek are so beautiful and enjoyable, it made me want to move there…
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Meryl Streep The Narrator
Meryl Streep has agreed to narrate The Night Before Christmas and The Velveteen Rabbit for Starbucks coffeehouses. Starbucks says that they are simply continuing in their commitment to family entertainment. The audiobooks will also feature soft musicals and the books will only be available at Starbucks for the first four months. After that I guess…
Popularity of the Bee
Recently, spelling bees seem to be making a buzz all of their own. There is a play on broadway and even a spelling bee movie in theaters. Now comes a novel titled America Bee by James Maguire. The book tells readers all about the spelling bee competition way back to 1925 and gives you all…
Laughing At Cancer
For years Miriam Engelberg was afraid to die and then she got cancer. To get over her fears Engelberg starting writing comic books and three are due to be released. All are cancer-themed comics. The first was released in May and is titled Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics. Miriam Engelberg…
Two More Books
My school just acquired two more books for our English library. At first, I thought that was good news. One is a second copy of Harry Potter 6. Even assuming that whoever bought these books doesn’t read English and only picked the book based on color, what are the odds that he would pick one…
Oprah’s Big Book Deal
Oprah has signed a book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster and the amount she signed for is apparently more than Bill Clinton’s $12 million but no one is talking yet. The book will be about healthy eating, weightloss and how to keep the weight off and under control. The book will be publisher next…
Anybody Out There? By Marian Keyes Book Review
Anna Walsh is one of Walsh sisters that author Marian Keyes has previously written about in novels like Angels. She is supposed to be in New York living up life as cosmetics company PR but she is in Dublin with her family healing from her fractures and bruises. The main part of the story is her…
Bill Clinton’s Public Service
Former President Bill Clinton has previously written his autobiography and has now agreed to write another novel. This newest book will be about public service and activism and will focus on the experiences that he has has traveling around the world and some of the different people that he has met. The book is yet…
Slim Pickings For English Readers!
I teach at a school in China, and my school’s English library consists of Harry Potter 6, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities and, inexplicably, Chicken Soup for the Single’s Soul. Harry Potter is printed on what feels like fax paper and haphazardly bound, with weird gutters and strange formatting choices. Pride and…
It Never Lets You Go
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. 304 pages, $24.00 (hardcover) Knopf. This is one of those books that a well-meaning book reviewer can completely ruin for a reader. Admittedly I wanted to read this book because I had read so many reviews praising it, but those same reviews taught me something important about spoilers….