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Book Review: Roses by Leila Meacham

A Novel Menagerie | December 27th 2009 by Sheri

Author: Leila Meacham Publisher: Grand Central Publishing/Hachette ISBN #:   978-0-446-55000-0 Type:  Fiction Pages: 609 Hardback Published:  January 6, 2010 Website:  CLICK HERE  Purchase:  $14.99 (HERE)    The Story Mary read more

Dbrookings

Hunting A Spider- Longtime Boyfriend 52

Chasing A Spider | December 27th 2009

   “Alice, some secrets can kill, like the one you’re keeping from us now.” I pleaded. “People are dying by the hand of a lunatic who somehow feels a connection to me. Why does he feel that?” “Talk to Doane.̶ read more

Tamelaquijas

Paranormal Romance Authors and Books Listing

At Your Fingertips | December 27th 2009 by Tamela Quijas

FYI  to all fans of paranormal romance! Are you looking for a great paranormal romance novel?   Are you searching for a new author?  Stop by my Paranormal Romance Authors and Book Listings Page has been updated! read more

nizejpodpisany

#vss Police were called to a dead body in a tweet box. “92nd to…

Password Incorrect | December 27th 2009 by Nick Name

That was it. The whole story. Read here about Twitter-based literature tagged #vss. read more

tgabrukiewicz

Sunday Scribblings, Delicious

Surface Tension | December 27th 2009 by Thom Gabrukiewicz

The prompt over at Sunday Scribblings is “delicious.”Her CookiesThe object of my considerable consternation has decided to follow me home from school.This is what I get for being nice.If she was a flavor of ice cream, it would be vanilla, of cour read more

Disney Kindle Commando Sunday is Here!

OpenCulture | December 27th 2009

Today’s free story: When They Were Calling You in for Dinner (listen here) or read it in the Charles River Review [To download the story and listen on your MP3 player, just right-click and "save file as..."] Dear OC readers, About a week ago, read more

RonKaplanNJ

* RK Review: The Spy in a Catcher’s Mask

Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | December 27th 2009 by Ron Kaplan

by Kurt Willinger  (Sabre Press, 1995) Moe Berg is certainly one of the most interesting characters to ever done baseball flannels. A mediocre player — an apocryphal story quotes Casey Stengel saying “He can speak seven languages but can read more

abcde

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Garcia and Stohl

Liberphilia | December 27th 2009 by Che

Written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this book is becoming a favorite amongst teenage readers.What some say:"Gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original. I devoured it."- Melissa Marr, NYT bestselling author of Wicked Lovely"A lush Southern g read more

An intense page-turning narrative

BrontëBlog | December 27th 2009

Another review of Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre (this one not so positive, but also not very deep) appears in Deseret News:The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, are in style right now.Not that the authors of the classics "Jane Eyre," " read more

steph47

185. The Curse of the Damsel - 2

The Solitary Writer | December 27th 2009 by steph

~~ This is a fiction work and all images have been taken from deviantart.comcontinued from Part1"Granny what happened?,"Young Julia was curious to know the reason behind her Granny's futile love.Stella was a stubborn woman since her young ages. She read more

Compri

Futurism - Futurologie

Compri's Island | December 27th 2009

Despre viitor. Prognoza si anticipatie, societate, economie, stiinta si tehnica. Prezentari text, power-point si video. read more

WriterMike

Top 5 Writing Apps for 2010

Mike's Writing Workshop and Newsletter | December 27th 2009 by Mike Geffner

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Blogmoney

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Books for the Richer | December 27th 2009 by Sophia

The Alchemist . My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.”Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart read more

Tamelaquijas

Haunted Destiny–Kelly Abell’s tale of Intrigue and the Parano…

At Your Fingertips | December 27th 2009 by Tamela Quijas

    Kelly Abell is a wonderful return author that writes fantastic novels filled with intrigue. Her latest, Haunted Destiny, involves a touch of the paranormal certain to please many a reader!      Destiny Dove is the only survivor of a tr read more

Bookworm71

Roses – Leila Meacham

Serendipitous Readings | December 27th 2009 by Marci

This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for months now taunting me,  now that I have finally read it in less than 24 hours, It left me wanting more; you all know how that happens when you are reading a book and you feel as if you were in the midd read more

nizejpodpisany

Week on Twitter 2009-12-27

Password Incorrect | December 27th 2009 by Nick Name

New on #feedbooks » Batman #12, Charles Wilkins http://ow.ly/16bzDV # RT @tonyeldridge: Two Items Needed In Every Author's Book Promotion Tool-Box by @karenzwriter http://bit.ly/4dC4w6 # RT @WritersDigest: Best Tweets for Writers (week ending 1 read more

Ysabetwordsmith

Author News: “Santa’s Other Helper”

Hypatia's Hoard of Reviews | December 26th 2009 by Elizabeth Barrette

Recently I received this announcement from Mitchel McAllister: I have just posted a new story “Santa’s Other Helper” to my gay fiction site, Prism & Ink, in the Category “Other” (the green button at the top of the read more

johngrabowski

The question I ask most…

Entertaining Welsey Shaw — A Novel | December 26th 2009 by John Grabowski

When I’m writing, do I most often wonder what people will think of my opus?  Do I wonder if I’ll sell a crillion copies and end up living in a big house with Nicholas Sparks as my next door neighbor? Do I wonder if Miramax will want to read more

Lyrarose

Clan of the Cave Bears by Jean M. Auel

Lyra Rose's Blog | December 26th 2009 by Lyra Rose

Genre: Fiction; Ice Age, The Dawn of Modern HumansPublisher: BantamRating: 5 out of 5 StarsBack Cover: This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnifice read more

When That Good Old Fashioned Karma Comes Around…

Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | December 26th 2009

Christmas Day this year found me at the home of my dear sister Rose, who, as regular readers of this Web log know, owing to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, the actions of people like Bernie Madoff, the schemes of scumbag derivative traders, the indi read more

SecondWind

Blessings and the Blues by Sherrie Hansen

Second Wind Publishing | December 26th 2009

In this year’s Christmas letter, I said,  “I am now a published author of two books, Night and Day, and Stormy Weather – a most wonderful happening, squeezed in between daily stresses that do not go away simply because something ex read more

KyusiReader

An adventure in a tree

KyusiReader | December 26th 2009 by Peter

Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle is a beautiful book for young adults. From the clean, white book paper to the wonderful illustrations of François Place that can be found in many pages, it makes a wonderful addition to one's bookshelves. The cove read more

Dbrookings

Hunting A Spider- Alice In Miseryland 51

Chasing A Spider | December 26th 2009

   “I’m not supposed to be subjected to any kind of stress.” Alice pouted. “The doctor said that my system could experience a shutdown and I could that I could die.” “That fact that you’re aware of all th read more

thomaswigington

Review: The Last Dickens By Matthew Pearl

ThomasWigington.com | December 26th 2009 by Thomas Wigington

Matthew Pearl is the best selling author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow. In his latest novel, The Last Dickens, Mr. Pearl takes on one of literatures greatest mysteries: How was Charles Dickens going to end The Mystery of Edwin Drood? In 1870 C read more

Brix

Home Land

Brix Picks | December 26th 2009 by Brittany Hague

by Sam Lipsyte (2005) Home Land is a bitter and acidically funny book about a smart-assed failure named Lewis (also known, after an unfortunate high school incident, as “Teabag”), who, via his high school’s alumni newsletter, decid read more

tarahlynn

Karalay’s Finality

Tarahlynn.com | December 26th 2009 by Tarah L. Wolff

Well, I finally got through Karalay. Who knew? I knew I just needed one day. Just one. I can get through forty thousand words in a day. That seems to by limit. That’s not writing forty thousand words that going through, cutting, adding and edit read more

tgabrukiewicz

Fiction for snow shut-ins

Surface Tension | December 26th 2009 by Thom Gabrukiewicz

We've had a blizzard in the Midwest, one that locked people in their homes. I have been no exception. You'd think that it would be a good time to write, but the lack of stimulation, I fear, does the opposite.But write on, I must.Winds of ChangeWind r read more

dustyhum

Book Review: How the Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno (2001)

Dusty Hum | December 26th 2009 by nathan

How the Hula Girl Sings is Joe Meno’s second novel, and it reads like an author who is beginning to get his legs about him in terms of style, tropes, and characters.  There are flashes of what we see in later novels—experimentation with genre f read more

dialoguewithyou

Lost

The Dialogue | December 26th 2009 by Chatterbox

Katie couldn’t help panicking. She was sure to face certain death in no time. Her mind was racing looking for avenues, but panic seemed to have frozen her senses. She had to find a solution of this sticky situation. What should she do? Her throat w read more

MaxFiction

Flicker in the Porthole Glass, a novel – Installment III

Maximum Fiction | December 26th 2009

My novel Flicker in the Porthole Glass was published by MAMMOTH Books in 2002. The Review of Contemporary Fiction observed that, “…the achievement here is Desautels’s prose, an aural event both jagged and elegant, assaultive and invitin read more