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The Sunday Salon 9.7.08 & 100th Review Contest

7 Sep By 12 Comments

This has been a productive week in Literate Housewife Review land. I read three and a half books, hosted a book tour, got nominated for a BBAW award, and published two reviews, which brought me just one review away from my 100th review!  I remember back in January of 2007 that I never in my [...]

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#99 ~ The Seamstress

6 Sep By 5 Comments

The Seamstress: A Novel by Frances De Pontes Peebles Some of the best aspects of reading fiction are visiting places you may never otherwise see and providing a glimpse of what it might be like to live in a different time in history.  The Seamstress, which takes place mainly between Taquaritinga and Recife, Brazil during [...]

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300th Post and August Recap

1 Sep By 13 Comments

I couldn’t believe it, but my WordPress stats indicate that my post yesterday about Maw Books’ Darfur fund raiser was my 299th post.  That makes my August Recap my 300th official post!!!  Whoo Hoo!  Thanks to each and every one of you who have read this blog.  It’s really been an anchor for me. Non-Reading [...]

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The Sunday Salon

24 Aug By 6 Comments

This week was by far less eventful than last week. For that I am very grateful. I was able to read two books: The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner and House and Home by Kathleen McCleary. I also posted my review of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I became absolutely entranced by Juana La Loca [...]

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