Tag: novel
group name: fictionreaders
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March 27, 2008 09:42 PM EDT --
A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock
Trade Paperback Fiction
Avon , An Imprint of Harper-Collins Publishers
April 2008
Price: $13.95 U.S./$14.95 Canada
352 Pages (no index, . . . more
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July 15, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
When I received notice from Gather that I'd been chosen to get Saralee Rosenberg's Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead to read and review I was thrilled. I had previously read and greatly enjoyed . . . more
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April 19, 2008 04:11 PM EDT --
I really enjoyed the humor as well as the feeling of strong emotions of Lee as I read this book. The author writes in a way that is easy for the reader to feel the emotions of the leading . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:43 AM EDT --
I received a copy of this book through the Gather Fiction Readers group. I didn't expect it to arrive so quickly and was already just beginning another book at the time it was delivered. I began . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
For the record, I do not advocate hiring a hit man to avenge an ex-lover. I also don't recommend baking poison brownies and tasting them yourself. In fact, none of the retribution tools mentioned . . . more
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May 03, 2008 03:40 PM EDT --
I received this book through the Fictions Readers group here at Gather. I've been very picky about which books I would like to read and evaluate because I'm not the type of person who can read . . . more
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April 16, 2008 04:47 PM EDT --
If you've ever wondered what your life would be like if you had married your first love, you will relate to and enjoy Mameve Medwed's THE END OF AN ERROR.
Lee's flamboyant grandmother takes . . . more
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July 18, 2008 06:41 AM EDT --
This book wasn't originally on my radar because I have never read anything from Iris Johansen's son before. I actually stumbled upon it while recently visiting my local Borders store and . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
For some reason-- granted strange and unknowable—I often latch onto some sort of symbol, talisman, or metaphor for my novel. For my first novel, Mail , it was anything postal: envelopes, . . . more
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March 28, 2008 05:09 PM EDT --
Right from the moment I 'met' this book I was enchanted. The cover art is gorgeous and well done, but I digress. One should never judge a book solely by the cover art.
Caro Peacock has spun . . . more
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March 24, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
According to Woody Allen, comic writers sit at the children's table. We who write funny are second-class citizens in the city of great literature. For the most part, Nobels and Pulitzers go to the . . . more
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May 03, 2008 04:32 PM EDT --
Although the plot deals with a heavy topic, the Department of Lost & Fun is laugh out loud funny.
The heroine of this novel by Allison Winn Scotch is realistically portrayed. She is courageous, . . . more
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May 18, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
If you rearrange the letters in the word "mother-in-law" you get the words "woman Hitler".
I'm sure that is how the main character of Mameve Medwed's novel Of Men and . . . more
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May 26, 2008 06:06 PM EDT --
The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel is about two young girls who become fast friends and promise each other that they will never reveal the terrible secret of what happened to them one summer. The . . . more
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June 09, 2008 06:11 PM EDT --
So many of us are reading (and loving!) The Safety of Secrets by DeLauné Michel that I thought it might be fun to do a special challenge related to the book's themes and how they resonate . . . more
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February 26, 2008 06:06 PM EST --
Want someone killed in Australia? The average price for a "hit" is $12,700, but you can get it as cheap as $380. In fact, the Australian Institute of Criminology did a research . . . more
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May 06, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
Book of The Day ~ Something Reckless by Jess Michaels
Hello members of ~ Fiction Readers ~ and anyone else who stumbles upon this review.
"Find . . . more
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January 28, 2008 12:31 PM EST --
"historical fiction"
I grew up in the Hudson Valley, across the River and upstream from The Roosevelt's Hyde Park home. And while I haven't made much of it here on Gather, I'm . . . more
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February 12, 2008 11:08 AM EST --
If you ever wondered what might have gone on in the minds of Eleanor Roosevelt and and the popular World War II general and war hero, Dwight D. Eisenhower, this is the book for you.
In this . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
The new America series has a lot of promise for us. Not only is is highly enjoyable to write a character-filled story replete with historical facts but it seems to be an enjoyable way to acquaint . . . more
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