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• Tender Morsels – Margo Lanagan

  

  What’s it all about?:Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own persona... Read more

  The 30 August 2013 by   Bibliobeth
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• Author Spotlight: Maryanne O’Hara

  

  I am thrilled to welcome Maryanne O’Hara, author of recent novel Cascade to The Novel Life!  In the essay below O’Hara shares how she came to write Cascade: I... Read more

  The 29 August 2013 by   Anovelsource
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• The Swerve: Philosophical Dynamite

  

  How the Renaissance BeganAs I think I have mentioned before, I have had The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began (Stephen Greenblatt) on my bed side table for a fe... Read more

  The 27 August 2013 by   Chris Mills
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• Grimm, Grim Or Grymm? A Modern Day Fairy Tale

  

  Jacob Wilhelm GrimmDid you know when the first English translation of Grimm’s fairy tales appeared in 1823 many people thought they were ‘grim’ fairy tales?... Read more

  The 27 August 2013 by   Briarjensen
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• Book Review: Me Before You

  

  369 pages | Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking | Published: 12/31/12 You only get one life.  It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. Read more

  The 22 August 2013 by   Anovelsource
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• Amanda Romine Lynch: Childhood Influences

  

  When I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to write, and so by the time I was five I was writing sentences. By the time I was seven, I was writing very bad plays... Read more

  The 21 August 2013 by   Librarygirl
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• Cover Reveal: Under the Bed Across the World by Rose Candis

  

  Here is the first look at the cover for Under the bed Across the World by Rose Candis. Expected publication date is September 2013. Read more

  The 20 August 2013 by   Librarygirl
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• Portrait of the Week – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

  

  Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Peake, c1606. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.This blog has developed a distinctly Stuart flavour over the last... Read more

  The 19 August 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Beautiful Ruins

  

  April 1962, Porto Vergogna, a tiny village straggling up the cliff in the least famous of the Cinque Terre resorts. In the sun-drenched waters, Pasquale Tursi i... Read more

  The 08 August 2013 by   Litlove
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• Gritty Maryland: What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman

  

  ***½ Part of my Mysterious USA ChallengeWilliam Morrow, 2007ISBN 0061128856 (ISBN13: 9780061128851)Literary awards: Barry Award for Best Novel (2008),... Read more

  The 08 August 2013 by   Lasesana
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