Jennifer

A Special Giveaway of The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

Later this week, I’ll be hosting Laura Moriarty on her TLC Book Tour with my review of her latest novel, The Chaperone. I’m currently reading and loving this story about Cora, a mother of grown twin boys, who decides to act as chaperone to a 15-year-old Louise Brooks on a trip to New York to [...]

Filed Under: book giveaway Tagged With: Laura Moriarty, Louise Brooks, Riverhead Books, The Chaperone

#428 ~ I Couldn’t Love You More

17 May By Jennifer 4 Comments

I Couldn’t Love You More by Jillian Medoff Published by: five spot Published on: May 15, 2012 Page Count: 399 Genre: Women’s Fiction My Reading Format: Review copy sent to me by the publisher for consideration. Available Formats: Paperback and eBook Coming Soon: I will be interviewing Jillian Medoff next week. I hope you’ll come back [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, fiction Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, five spot, Grand Central Publishing, I Couldn't Love You More, Jillian Medoff, KMSPR

#427 ~ I Am Forbidden

15 May By Jennifer 14 Comments

I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits Published by: Hogarth Books Published on: May 8, 2012 Page Count: 320 Genre: Fiction My Reading Format: Review copy sent to me by the publisher in order to participate in the author’s TLC Book Tour. Available Formats: Hardcover, eBook, and Audiobook Giveaway: As part of this tour, I get to [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, fiction, TLC Book Tour Tagged With: Anouk Markovits, Hasidic Judaism, Hogarth, I Am Forbidden, laws of family purity, Random House, Satmar, Satmar community

#426 ~ A Wedding in Haiti

14 May By Jennifer 3 Comments

A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Published by: Algonquin Books Published on: April 24, 2012 Page Count: 304 Genre: Memoir My Reading Format: Review copy sent to me by the publisher for consideration Available Formats: Hardcover and eBook My Review Julia Alvarez and her husband Bill own and operate an organic coffee plantation in [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, Memoir Tagged With: A Wedding in Haiti, Algonquin Books, earthquake, Haiti, Julia Alvarez, marriage, poverty, social justice

#425 ~ Emily and Einstein

9 May By Jennifer 9 Comments

Emily and Einstein by Linda Francis Lee Published by: St. Martin’s Press Published on: March 2011 Page Count: 368 Genre: Women’s Fiction My Reading Format: Audiobook purchased from Audible.com using a monthly credit for Armchair Audiess Audiobook Published by: Tantor Audio Narrator: Dan John Miller and Cassandra Campbell Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 54 minutes [...]

Filed Under: Armchair Audies, book review, female author, fiction Tagged With: Cassandra Campbell, Dan John Miller, Emily and Einstein, Linda Francis Lee, second chances, Tantor Audio

#424 ~ In One Person

8 May By Jennifer 25 Comments

In One Person by John Irving Published by: Simon & Schuster Published on: May 8, 2012 Page Count: 425 Genre: Literary Fiction My Reading Format: Review copy sent to me by the publisher for consideration Available Formats: Hardcover, eBook, and Audiobook My Review Billy Dean, the son of an absent father and a mother still [...]

Filed Under: book review, fiction, male author Tagged With: bisexuality, boarding school, In One Person, John Irving, transgender, transsexuals

A Weekend in Michigan

7 May By Jennifer 10 Comments

This weekend the whole clan took Friday off and flew to Michigan in order to celebrate the First Communion of my best friends children, Abby and Ethan. Although both girls have flown before, this will be the first flights they will remember (Emma has memories of her flight to Chicago when she was 4, but [...]

Filed Under: About Literate Housewife Tagged With: #RH300K, family life, First Communion, Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long Discussion

3 May By Jennifer 17 Comments

Welcome to my first audiobook listen-a-long! Today we will be discussing The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu and published by Wolfsword Press. This novel begins Nadya, the main character, in the Ukraine during World War II. It then alternates to Nadya as an elderly woman living in Chicago with her husband and family. [...]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Read-A-Long Tagged With: domovyk, Iambik Audiobooks, listen-a-long, pysanka, superstitions, The Silence of Trees, Ukraine, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Wolfsword Press, WWII, Xe Sands

April 2012 Recap

2 May By Jennifer 5 Comments

Somehow, the month of April has come and gone. It was a slow reading month for me, but I knew that my superhero (for me) reading powers would weaken over time. While I did devote a few days to a book I didn’t end up finishing (a case of right book at the wrong time), [...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: April 2012 Recap, In One Person, The Starboard Sea

#423 ~ Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale

1 May By Jennifer 4 Comments

Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge Published by: Amy Einhorn Books Published on: April 26, 2012 Page Count: 304 Genre: Fiction My Reading Format: ARC sent to me by the publisher for consideration Available Formats: Hardcover and eBook My Review Faith is an elderly widow living by herself in Texas in her [...]