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#238 ~ The Wives of Henry Oades ~ Review & Giveaway

The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran Published by: Ballantine Books Published on: February 2010 Page Count: 384 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: ARC snagged through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program Availability: paperback and eBook Today it is my great pleasure to be Johanna Moran’s host on her TLC Book Tour for her novel, The Wives of [...]

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#189 ~ Scottsboro

15 Aug By Jennifer 9 Comments

Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman One summer day, during the 1930s at the Scottsboro, Alabama train station, police officers wait to apprehend several black men on the inbound train after word of a fight between them and some white passengers was reported. When the train stops, two females dressed in overalls haul tail away from the [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, Historical Fiction, LibraryThing Tagged With: African-American Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Communist Party, Early Reviewer snag, Ellen Feldman, Scottsboro, Scottsboro Alabama, W. W. Norton & Company

#184 ~ The Angel’s Game

22 Jul By Jennifer 25 Comments

The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón As a lover of Gothic fiction, I was over the moon to have been selected to snag a copy of The Angel’s Game from LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers program. I was far from disappointed. Despite a vague sense that the novel was long, I loved the story and quickly [...]

Filed Under: book review, fiction, Gothic Fiction, LibraryThing, male author Tagged With: Andreas Corelli, Angel Game, Barcelona, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

Tuesday Thingers All About Popularity

17 Jun By Literate Housewife 9 Comments

Today’s Question: What’s the most popular book in your library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it? What’s the most popular book you don’t have? How does a book’s popularity figure into your decisions about what to read? The Most popular book that I own is Harry Potter and [...]

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#74 ~ Love Marriage

30 May By Literate Housewife 8 Comments

Love Marriage by V. V. Ganeshananthan This debut novel tells the story of Yalini, a young woman who was born in the United States to parents who grew up in Sri Lanka. What makes her parents special is that they had a Love Marriage. They fell in love and decided to marry on their own. [...]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, LibraryThing, Reading Tagged With: Early Reviewers snag, Jaffna, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Love Marriage, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, V.V. Ganeshananthan

Smoky Mountain Vacation

12 May By Literate Housewife 5 Comments

Greetings from Gatlinburg, TN, located in heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s beautiful here despite the rain and I’ve enjoyed seeing my parents (I haven’t see my mother on Mother’s Day for at least 10 years), siblings, in-laws, nieces, and nephews. The kids did a great job on the drive. Even if they hadn’t, [...]

Filed Under: Barnes & Noble, Books, entertainment, Family, Historical Fiction, LibraryThing, My Life with Books, Reading Tagged With: Alison Weir, Anita Amirrezvani, Gatlinburg, Great Smoky Mountains, Last Night at the Lobster, Patrick McGrath, Roanoke Valley, Stefan Merrill Block, Stewart O'Nan, The Blood of Flowers, The Lady Elizabeth, The Story of Forgetting, Trauma, Vacation

Top 106 Unread Books on LibraryThing

9 May By Literate Housewife 2 Comments

Devourer of Books posted this meme earlier today and it was so inspiring to me. We might even come up with a way to make it a friendly, book blogging competition. We both are fans of LibraryThing and this the list of what at least was once the listing of the top 106 unread books [...]

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Without an ARC

29 Apr By Literate Housewife 6 Comments

For the past week it seems as though all it’s done is rain, and I’m without an ARC. Please don’t read that as a complaint, though. I have two on the way: Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers for April and Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan through Barnes & Nobles’ [...]

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On the Horizon

2 Apr By Literate Housewife 2 Comments

I have some fun things to look forward to in Literate Housewife-Land: I received an Advanced Readers Copy of Artist’s Proof by Lander Marks in the mail on Monday. After I finish reading it, I will be interviewing the author. I’m really excited to get to do that again. I am on the look out [...]