Book Reviews and a Little More…
I might as well get used to the fact that this is going to be the “every-other-Sunday” Salon. I don’t know why it works out that way, it just does! I’ve actually finished several books in the last two weeks, all of them fairly good… From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison
Read moreBook #89 was Nefertiti by Michelle Moran. The back of the book reads: Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. It is hoped that her strong personality will temper the young ruler’s heretical desire
Read moreBook #88 was I’m Watching You by Mary Burton. The back of the book reads: He’ll Taste Their Fear…The first kill was easy. The second much easier. No guilt, no remorse, just a rush of adrenaline surging through him as each life drains away, and the pleasure of knowing that their deaths help his beloved Lindsay. And there are so many more who deserve to
Read moreIt’s time for another giveaway! Joshua Henkin, the author of Matrimony, has offered to give away a signed copy of his new paperback! Matrimony was named a 2007 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK, a Book Sense Highlight Pick of the Year, and a Borders Original Voices Selection. The back of the book reads: It’s the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives
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