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Think back to when you were four years old and what do you remember? Can you recall large swaths of time, conversations, clothing, daily events, and all the other minutiae, or are your memories more like mine–snapshots of events, some colored by recollections of other family members? I turned four in 1978 and have a [...]
Participating in Mailbox Monday two weeks in a row is a new personal record! Thanks to Amy at Passages to the Past for hosting. I couldn’t wait to share these titles with my blogging buddies and get some feedback on them. Love to know if you’ve read, reviewed, or are interested in any of the [...]
While snowbound last week, I began cobbling together a spreadsheet of the books I want to read in 2011. Yep, I’m officially a nerd with a customized Excel spreadsheet to track my future reads. I have a wall calendar to keep track of reviews and now a spreadsheet to organize the books I plan to [...]
Title: Dead End Gene Pool Author: Wendy Burden Genre/Pages: Memoir/288 Publication: Gotham; April 1, 2010 Rating: 2.5 Bookmarks Source: Review copy courtesy of Gotham Books Nat’s Single Sentence Synopsis: Born into a family whose name is synonymous with wealth, Wendy Burden, great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, pens a well-written memoir that strips away the facade, [...]
Title: Admit One Author: Emmett James Genre/Pages: Nonfiction, Memoir/197 Publication: Fizzypop Productions, LLC; February 1, 2010 Rating: 3.5 BOOKMARKS Source: Review copy courtesy of Lisa Roe of Online Publicist A witty and entertaining memoir that details one Englishman’s life-long love of the cinema and experiences working as an actor. Films have always played a defining role [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? February 9, 2012
The Girl with the Crooked Nose
by Ted Botha
courtesy of Penguin Publishers
February 25, 2012
The Book Club Cookbook
by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
courtesy of Tarcher Publishers (Penguin USA)
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