September & October 2012 - Confirmed Dates
September 1
Grady Harp - Amazon Reviewer (review)
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September 2
Live to Read (review)
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September 4
Dad of Divas (review)
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September 5
The Character Connection (interview & giveaway)
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September 6
Mom in Love with Fiction (review)
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September 7
Tribute Books Reviews & Giveaways (interview & giveaway)
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September 19
CMash Reads (interview & giveaway)
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September 20
Sharon's Garden of Book Reviews (review)
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September 21
The Bibliophilic Book Blog (interview)
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September 23
Reading Between the Lines (review)
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September 24
The Plot Thickens (interview & giveaway)
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September 25
City Girl Who Loves to Read (interview & giveaway)
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September 28
Every Free Chance Book Reviews (review)
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and
Concert Katie (review)
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October 1
Novel d'Tales (spotlight & giveaway)
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October 2
The Book Connection (interview)
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October 3
Gina's Library (interview & giveaway)
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October 4
Christie's Book Reviews (interview & giveaway)
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October 5
Books in the Spotlight (interview & giveaway)
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October 6
Mornings Start with Em (review)
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October 8
Literary R&R (review)
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October 9
Books and Needlepoint (review)
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October 10
Celtic Lady's Reviews (review)
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October 16
Tiffany's Bookshelf (review)
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October 20
My Devotional Thoughts (review)
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October 26
Reading Challenged (review)
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October 27
Jamie B. Musings (review)
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Excerpts
The Deepest, Darkest Part of the Woods Excerpt
It was the summer of the bicentennial, 1976, and the country was celebrating itself. The war had been over for more than a year and things went on as ever, the children playing in the Sullivan’s big back yard under skinny, century-old trees, the kind of trees with small round leaves that look like olive branches.
Driving Excerpt
They drove around that summer because there was nothing else to do. Benji had just gotten his driver’s license and his father let him use his old VW bug, no air condition and a noisy engine, but it ran. They decided to look for jobs, so they drove around South Jersey scouting for places that might hire them, their shirts soaked through in the back and their legs sticking to the seats. They stopped at a bar called Kowalski’s off of Route 70. It was empty in the daytime, just a guy cleaning. He had long hair and a tattoo on his neck that said “Quang Ngai.” The man asked if they were 18 and shook his head “no” when they said they weren’t, and then he went back to mopping the floor.
Median Excerpt
Usually, Wendell’s job involved more typical, straightforward events – a heart attack here and there, or someone falling off a ladder. Every once in a while, a suicide, maybe, and those were the hardest. There was a man who ran the local bicycle shop who shot himself. He had no wife, no relatives, so they just locked up the shop and left it, as-is. When you walked by you could still see all the merchandise in the window, crowded in and piled from the floor to the ceiling. It’s a shame, Wendell thought, all those bicycles going to waste.
It was the summer of the bicentennial, 1976, and the country was celebrating itself. The war had been over for more than a year and things went on as ever, the children playing in the Sullivan’s big back yard under skinny, century-old trees, the kind of trees with small round leaves that look like olive branches.
Driving Excerpt
They drove around that summer because there was nothing else to do. Benji had just gotten his driver’s license and his father let him use his old VW bug, no air condition and a noisy engine, but it ran. They decided to look for jobs, so they drove around South Jersey scouting for places that might hire them, their shirts soaked through in the back and their legs sticking to the seats. They stopped at a bar called Kowalski’s off of Route 70. It was empty in the daytime, just a guy cleaning. He had long hair and a tattoo on his neck that said “Quang Ngai.” The man asked if they were 18 and shook his head “no” when they said they weren’t, and then he went back to mopping the floor.
Median Excerpt
Usually, Wendell’s job involved more typical, straightforward events – a heart attack here and there, or someone falling off a ladder. Every once in a while, a suicide, maybe, and those were the hardest. There was a man who ran the local bicycle shop who shot himself. He had no wife, no relatives, so they just locked up the shop and left it, as-is. When you walked by you could still see all the merchandise in the window, crowded in and piled from the floor to the ceiling. It’s a shame, Wendell thought, all those bicycles going to waste.
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