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Julie's Bookshelf: August 2010
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Saturday, August 14, 2010. EATING PEACHES" by Ena Joyce. On my regular blog, Celtic Lady, I recently posted about the joys of summer still left to partake of in August, one of which was slicing lush, ripe peaches and drizzling them with cream and sugar. Now that's great food writing - great descriptive writing of any type, right? If the book had continued in that vein, "The Cookbook Collector" would have ranked as high, in my opinion, as "The School of Essential Ingredients" (previously reviewed). The st...
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Julie's Bookshelf: IMPERFECT BIRDS
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Monday, May 17, 2010. I shouldn't have read "Imperfect Birds" right after reading "Every Last One" (review below). I confess I hadn't really read the plot outline for "Imperfect Birds", I just knew this was a new book by Anne Lamott and like her fiction and non-fiction works. Also, I had just gotten both books from the library and I like to read the high-demand library books first so others don't have to wait long to get them. One of your daughter's very best friends went to rehab for drug use? Although ...
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Julie's Bookshelf: July 2010
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Friday, July 16, 2010. Fifty years ago, on July 11, 1960, a book was published that came to have enormous impact on millions of Americans and indeed, on readers worldwide. The book was "To Kill A Mockingbird", by Harper Lee. I can't remember when I first read the book, although I do know it was not for a school assignment. And I don't know how often I have re-read it. But I do know I have been touting it as "my favorite book ever" for a good 40 years. It has been called "America's novel". Lee, who is now...
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Julie's Bookshelf: February 2010
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010. I had been waiting to read Tracy Chevalier's new book, "Remarkable Creatures", and I was not disappointed. I have read everything Chevalier has written and I don't think she can write a bad book. (Her previous works are "Girl With A Pearl Earring", "Burning Bright", "The Virgin Blue", "The Lady and the Unicorn" and "Falling Angels".). Finding that crocodile changed everything", says Mary. "Sometimes I try to imagine my life without those big bold beasts hidden in the cli...
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Julie's Bookshelf: March 2010
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Saturday, March 27, 2010. AND FIVE BOOKS MORE. Either term is practically moot anyway, as Truly is not diagnosed until she's middle aged. As a child, she's never even seen by a doctor. I seem to have read a lot of books lately about downtrodden young girls/women, and I always find myself rooting for them, and loving a lot of them too. I truly loved Truly. This past winter I wrote a post about Scottish Tinkers and Travellers on my regular blog, "Celtic Lady". It led me to read two books by women who w...
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Julie's Bookshelf: MY TBR STACK
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010. This isn't my TBR stack - I found it on the web, but. I have read - and recommend - "Odd Thomas",. The Time Traveler's Wife" and "Traveling Mercies". I have been meaning to read something by Flannery O'Connor,. And I like Bret Lot so I will check into "A Song I Knew By Heart". What's in your TBR (To Be Read) stack? I bought "The Lost German Slave Girl" at a used book store and THEN found out it is a true (and therefore dull? I have read the first three books of Mary Stewart'...
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Julie's Bookshelf: April 2010
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Friday, April 30, 2010. Beginning with "The Diary of Anne Frank", I have read many novels over the years that dealt with the Jewish situation during World War II - the Jews who were in hiding, those who were saved by Schindler, those who died in concentration camps, those who survived the camps. The only fault I would find with this excellent book is how willing and unfazed the four women are when they learn they are to be separated and sent to different settlements. It seems to me that this tearing ...
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Julie's Bookshelf: February 2008
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Friday, February 29, 2008. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL". Some of you may know, from reading my primary blog, that reading historical fiction is one of my guilty pleasures. Aware that the movie "The Other Boleyn Girl" would be opening this weekend, and that I had a copy of the book by Philippa Gregory in my historical fiction stash, I read the book this past week. The two girls were interchangeable pawns in a game to win the heart of the king. Of the court, the life of Tudor England and the emotions of love, lu...
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Julie's Bookshelf: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010. I bought "Her Fearful Symmetry" solely because it was written by Audrey Niffenegger, author of "The Time Travelers' Wife", which I loved. I've often said a city can be just as much a character of a book as a human. In this case, it's not a city but a cemetery. London's famous Highgate Cemetery, burial place of such famous people as Christina Rossetti, Karl Marx and George Eliot, abuts right on the property of their apartment building. This may sound weird, but the cemetery, w...
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Julie's Bookshelf: THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR
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Saturday, August 14, 2010. EATING PEACHES" by Ena Joyce. On my regular blog, Celtic Lady, I recently posted about the joys of summer still left to partake of in August, one of which was slicing lush, ripe peaches and drizzling them with cream and sugar. Now that's great food writing - great descriptive writing of any type, right? If the book had continued in that vein, "The Cookbook Collector" would have ranked as high, in my opinion, as "The School of Essential Ingredients" (previously reviewed). The st...
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