I had really hoped to get my review of Skinny by Diana Spechler posted today. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get my review written over the weekend. Still, I couldn’t just let today go by without notice. Publisher’s Summary In the aftermath of her Orthodox Jewish father’s death, twenty-six-year-old Gray Lachmann finds herself compulsively eating. [...]
My grandparents had a cabinet full of beer steins. In that collection there was one that always fascinated me, Grandpa’s ceramic outhouse stein. When my parents asked me what I might like from Grandpa, it was this that I asked for. My mother couldn’t believe her ears. It’s just a symbol of his sense of [...]
When Grandpa passed away last August, I was happy to be getting his cribbage board and outhouse stein (don’t ask). I didn’t give any other type of inheritance another thought. At Christmas, Dad and Mom shared with each of us kids an equal portion of Dad’s inheritance. Although it happened over Skype, there were tears [...]
When I first discovered Dana Precious and learned that she grew up in Muskegon, MI, I knew had to get in touch with her. I wanted to know how growing up in Michigan impacted her writing and she graciously agreed to write a guest post for The Literate Housewife Review. When asked about how growing [...]
The big day has arrived! Last night, my giveaway of The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer and sponsored by AudioGo came to an end at midnight. This morning I got ramp up the old List Randomizer and select the lucky winners. Here they are: Melanie Y Belinda B Lyndsey J Carrie K Melissa V Congratulations! I [...]
This week would have gone by and would eventually long since forgotten had it not been for Twitter. I didn’t always love and enjoy Twitter the way I do now. I’ve found that it’s something that requires commitment and a desire to build relationships in order to come into its own. I would say that [...]
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