Here, there and maybe nowhere

Book Review for "This Must be the Place" by Maggie O'Farrell

The Scale of a Family

Book Review for "Moonglow" by Michael Chabon

Five (or seven) GOOD things to come out of 2016

My Top 5 Favorite Books of 2016.

A Buzzfeed Blunder on Children's Books

Recently a friend of mine posted on Facebook a link to a Buzzfeed article "13 Children’s Books That Encourage Kindness Towards Others." Admittedly, I am familiar with only two of the books on that list. One is the Dr. Seuss book "Horton Hears a Who," which certainly fits the bill. The other, however, is Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree," and I must object to their including this book on their list.

Elizabethian Fury in a Modern Female

Book Review for "Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler

Guest Author Post: Shoshanah Shear on "Healing Your Life Through Activity"

The Story behind Healing Your Life Through Activity - An Occupational Therapist's Story

by Shoshanah Shear

The Structures of Love

Book Review for "To Capture what we Cannot Keep" by Beatrice Colin

An Elmwood Springs Retrospective

Book Review for "The Whole Town's Talking" by Fannie Flagg

Perfecting your Good-bye

Novella Review for "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer" by Fredrik Backman

A Gathering of Stories

Book Review for "November Storm: A Collection of Short Stories" by Robert Oldshue.

Women witnessing WWII

Book Review for "The Race for Paris" by Meg Waite Clayton

Not a blueprint!

Book Review for "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Different? Yes, but…

Book Review for "Today Will be Different" by Maria Semple

Teaser Tuesday for September 13, 2016

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Eling for Healing

Book Review for "The Last Will of Moira Leahy" by Therese Walsh

Should Regions for ARCs still be a thing?

So far and yet so near…

As most of my readers know, I live in Israel. Because of this, sometimes when I request advance reader copies (or ARCs) of books from sites like NetGalley, publishers sometimes decline my requests. No, this isn't antisemitism or some nasty BDS "gotcha." The reason they give is that they don't have the rights to give out ARCs to locations outside their domain. Lately, however, I've been thinking this is a bit strange, and if you think about it, effectively outmoded, especially when it comes to people who review books for the Internet (remember, it is call the World Wide Web, because it connects all corners of the globe).

Nine Times November 11, 1918

Book Review for "Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War" 

A Fantastical Fable

Book Review for "Little Nothing" by Marisa Silver

Maine Women Stories

Book Review for "Goodnight, Beautiful Women" by Anna Noyes

Teaser Tuesday for July 26, 2016

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Devotion en masse

Book Review for "The Atomic Weight of Love" by Elizabeth Church

Travels for the Mind or for the Body?

Book Review for "On Trying to Keep Still" by Jenny Diski

21st Century Fairy Tales?

Book Review for "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" by Joy Williams

Progress per traditionem.

Book Review for "Different Class" by Joanne Harris

Naughty, but nice!

Book Review for "The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules" by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Capturing the Fear

Book Review for "The Fox was Ever the Hunter" by Herta Müller

Books on the Waters

Book Review for "The Little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George

Baking Soda and Soccer

Book Review for "Britt-Marie Was Here" by Fredrik Backman

Guest Blog Post: "Rarity from the Hollow" author Robert Eggleton

The Beginning, Middle, and End

Emotional Closures in Fiction and in Reality

My Liebster Award Nominations

Last October, Annette Steinmetz of Reading in the Garden, nominated me for a Liebster Award. 

Landscapes of Deception

Book Review for "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos" by Dominic Smith

The lost and what they find

Book Review for "Bottomland" by Michelle Hoover

The Sound of Reading

Listening to Audio Books

Guest Blog Post: Ten Most Delicious Desserts Inspired by Novels

Ten Most Delicious Desserts Inspired by Novels

Guest blog post by author Andrea Lochen

Friday Finds (March 18, 2016): This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

FRIDAY FINDS is hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat, and showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

So, come on — share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!

My Friday Finds:

Titanic Flight

Book Review for "Flight of Dreams" by Ariel Lawhon.

Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen eBook price promotion!

  Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen

Summary: Burned-out and broke, twenty-two-year-old single mother Anna Jennings moves to her grandparents' rural home for the summer with her four-year-old son, David. The sudden appearance of shadowy dinosaurs forces Anna to admit that either she's lost her mind or she can actually see her son's active imagination. Frightened for David's safety, Anna struggles to learn the rules of this bizarre phenomenon and how best to protect him. But what she uncovers along the way is completely unexpected: revelations about what her son's imaginary friends truly represent and dark secrets about her own childhood imaginary friend.

Feature & Follow Friday March 4, 2016

The Feature and Follow is the premium BLOG HOP of Book Bloggers. Running for over five years, the Feature and Follow’s goal is to promote the book blogging and author community to join together and support each other – even if it is just through a simple follow. The FF also promotes creative post options by offering interesting topics we can all talk about and comment on! Come join us.

Włodawa's Wars

Book Review for "In the Land of Armadillos" by Helen Maryles Shankman

Tell me who you love

Book Review for "A Place Called Winter" by Patrick Gale

Through a Darkened Lens

Book Review for "The Photographers Wife" by Suzanne Joinson

The Chocolate Lady's First Book Blogger Hop!

Welcome to the new Book Blogger Hop!

My Reading of Maggie O'Farrell's Novels

An overview of one of my favorite authors:

Maggie O'Farrell

Paths of love and sorrow

Book Review for "An Undisturbed Peace" by Mary Glickman

READERS, RECOMMEND YOUR BOOKSTORE!

READERS, RECOMMEND YOUR BOOKSTORE!

Sourcebooks Launches Reader Voting Campaign to Grant Money to Community Bookstores

NAPERVILLE IL (January 8, 2016) — Independent publisher Sourcebooks announces the “Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore” campaign, which will give grant money to three nominated bookstores. The “Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore Campaign” is inspired by the phenomenal support booksellers have given The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, which was selected as the #1 Indie Next Great Read for January 2016. 

Nothing Lost in Translation

Book Review for "The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend" by Katrina Bivald

A Nobel Introduction?

Book Review for "Vintage Munro - a collection of short stories" by Alice Munro

My 2015 Reading Statistics

This past year has been an intense one - not because of my reading, but because of my "day job" and everyday life in general. So getting away from it all with books has been especially important for me. As I wait on a book tour to publish one of my reviews, and work on another, I noticed that a fellow blogger, Stuck in a Book, posted his 2015 reading statistics, which I liked so much, I stole it from him; so here goes my 2015 reading statistics.