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I am finally getting around to reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the book that Kaite told us all about so many moons ago and that now is sprouting up on so many best of 2008 lists. Because Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrow’s runaway hit is an epistolary novel, a novel [...]

Falling Off Air by Catherine Sampson Despite having been trained by the best (Ted Balcom), I make one crucial decision each year regarding my mystery and crime fiction book discussion group.  I do not read the books prior to their selection as titles that the group will share. I love to live on the edge. [...]

How can I rationalize that with 43 advances piled up on my Must Read Soon table, not to mention two big bags of unread advances (19 books in one, 26 in the other) from the fall tradeshow in Portland not even unpacked yet – how can I admit that two new books arrived in the [...]

I’m not here. Well, this is the Internet, so you’ll have to take my word for it: I’m not where I usually am. I’ve deserted my library and book groups for the month because I’m on honeymoon in Spain and Portugal! (And no, you don’t have to send condolences to the bride: I’m writing this before I [...]