Oui oui oui... the elves wanted YOU to know... Santa is reading his list and checking it twice... it's that time again to find who's been naughty and who's been nice...
What list are YOU on?
Look Who's Reading
December 1, 2011 by The Elves...
Oui oui oui... the elves wanted YOU to know... Santa is reading his list and checking it twice... it's that time again to find who's been naughty and who's been nice...
he's actually been reading since summer...
Oui oui oui... the elves wanted YOU to know... Santa is reading his list and checking it twice... it's that time again to find who's been naughty and who's been nice...
My Book Stack
November 30, 2011 by Robin from CA
Hi Fifi!
It was so much fun to
see my post on Reading is Fashionable! About a week ago I took a photo of
my book stack but I'm only getting around to sending it to you now...
From top to bottom:
Grace Interrupted (2nd in the Manor House Mystery Series); Sentenced to Death;
Murder Under Cover (3rd in the Bibliophile Mystery Series); The Help; Out of
the Night; I Feel Bad About My Neck; An Echo in the Bone (last in the Outlander
Series by Diana Gabaldon).
Since taking this
picture I've finished The Help (one of the best books I've read in a
long time), Murder Under Cover (the weakest of the series so far), and
am almost done with Grace Interrupted (love Julie Hyzy). These and
Sentenced to Death are all cozy mysteries and that's really my favorite
genre. I've been reading Out of the Night for awhile. A true
story of a man who was part of the communist party as a young man in Germany
long before WWII and what happened leading up to, going through and after WWII
that changed him. I have to stop reading it every so often because I
start to have bad dreams about it. I Feel Bad About My Neck (written by
Nora Ephron of Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail fame) is a re-read for
me but it's just so funny. To be read by women "of a certain
age" - that is to say probably over 40. Then, if you're a fan of
Diana Gabaldon and Jamie & Claire you will recognize the last epic novel in
the Outlander series. I just haven't had the time to read it yet.
This fall is my time. Jamie & Claire deserve my full attention.
RobinfromCA
To the BookStore we go
November 29, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
Searching for INDEPENDENT bookstores... I stumbled across this interesting store...
Searching for INDEPENDENT bookstores... I stumbled across this interesting store...
Boulder Book Store is Boulder's
largest independent bookstore. We are a full-service general bookstore
and report our bestsellers to The New York Times, The Denver Post, and The Daily Camera.
Boulder Book Store has been named Best of Boulder by local papers every
year since 1987. As a founding member of the Boulder Independent
Business Alliance (one of the first of its kind in the country) David
Bolduc, founder and owner of Boulder Book Store for 35 years, has been
at the forefront of the "shop local" movement for a decade.
Made from Books
November 28, 2011 by It's the MailboxTees
This shelf signals... It's Christmas Time...
This shelf signals... It's Christmas Time...
Do YOU have any items made from books to show us? Please email photos
and description...
Contact link in the sidebar. Looking forward to hear
from YOU
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See what others are creating for the holidays via Metamorphosis Monday!
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See what others are creating for the holidays via Metamorphosis Monday!
Books for Kids
November 24, 2011 by Amazon.com
Thanksgiving books for children...
Thanksgiving books for children...
There are SEVERAL more books HERE...
Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!!!
Delicious Taste of Words
November 23, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
Time to pull out the recipe BOOKS... Let the Thanksgiving preparation BEGIN...
Do YOU have a favourite Holiday Cookbook?
Happy Cooking!!!
Reading Transformation
November 21, 2011 by About Design Interior
Talk about a Metamorphosing piece of furniture... This is FUN!
See what others are transforming on Metamorphosis Monday!
My Book Stack
November 17, 2011 by Alice @ Farewell, Office
My book stack is a little unconventional, and I know some
readers would be horrified. I still read print books, but have embraced the new
e-book trend, even writing a series on choosing the right e-reader and
a bi-monthly article highlighting free Kindle e-books. If you
are "e-reader friendly" I hope you'll enjoy my picture.
Alice @ Farewell, Office
Would LOVE to have YOU share... Simply snap a photo and email it to
us... if you have a website/blogsite give us the URL address and we will
link your photo to YOUR site or just YOUR name works too!
Contact link in the sidebar... Looking forward to hearing from YOU!
Contact link in the sidebar... Looking forward to hearing from YOU!
Look Who's Reading
November 16, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
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Italian Beauty... Sophia Loren
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Share photos of Famous People Reading... Email Us a link or a photo or
even a video... and a link to your site... Contact link is in the
sidebar... Looking forward to hearing from YOU!
Where do you Read
November 14, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
I've got the PERFECT place to read here!
NOW... I'm looking forward to Reading YOUR contributions to Reading is Fashionable...
Oui oui oui... we are in need of SHARING... YOU must have something to share about READING...
Contact us with YOUR ideas... Reading is Fashionable Email Address HERE!!!
Charming Bookmark
November 14, 2011 by Country Living
To assemble your own, cut velvet ribbon ($1.59 per yard; mjtrim.com) into nine-inch lengths. Purchase ribbon clamps the same width as your ribbon (from $1.50 per 10 pack; artfire.com), then use flat-nose jewelry pliers to affix clamps to both ends of each ribbon. Finish by attaching charms, trinkets, or vintage earrings (from 25 cents each; eebeads.com) to the clamps with jump rings ($4.12 per 100 pack; amazon.com).
Jewelry designer Andrea Singarella (andrea singarella.com)
fashioned these bibliophilic baubles for just a few bucks each.
To assemble your own, cut velvet ribbon ($1.59 per yard; mjtrim.com) into nine-inch lengths. Purchase ribbon clamps the same width as your ribbon (from $1.50 per 10 pack; artfire.com), then use flat-nose jewelry pliers to affix clamps to both ends of each ribbon. Finish by attaching charms, trinkets, or vintage earrings (from 25 cents each; eebeads.com) to the clamps with jump rings ($4.12 per 100 pack; amazon.com).
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice
November 11, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
About the Author...
Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-six novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family.
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Rice is the eldest of three daughters born to an English teacher and a typewriter salesman. Her first published poem appeared in the Hartford Courant when she was eleven, and her first short story was published in American Girl when she was fifteen. She studied Art History at Connecticut College but dropped out when her father became ill. She began to write, working as a maid in Newport, Rhode Island, a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and a whale researcher and deckhand in Woods Hole, Massachusetts to support herself. Her debut novel, Angels All Over Town, was published in 1985.
In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college's Special Collections Library.
Several of Rice's novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love for TNT, Blue Moon for CBS, Follow the Stars Home and Silver Bells for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Beach Girls for a Summer 2005 mini-series on Lifetime.
Rice divides her time between New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut. (bio via HERE)
About the Author...
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Rice is the eldest of three daughters born to an English teacher and a typewriter salesman. Her first published poem appeared in the Hartford Courant when she was eleven, and her first short story was published in American Girl when she was fifteen. She studied Art History at Connecticut College but dropped out when her father became ill. She began to write, working as a maid in Newport, Rhode Island, a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and a whale researcher and deckhand in Woods Hole, Massachusetts to support herself. Her debut novel, Angels All Over Town, was published in 1985.
In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college's Special Collections Library.
Several of Rice's novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love for TNT, Blue Moon for CBS, Follow the Stars Home and Silver Bells for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Beach Girls for a Summer 2005 mini-series on Lifetime.
Rice divides her time between New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut. (bio via HERE)
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The book...
From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a
heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who
come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach
house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they
need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their
grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year
Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family
myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send
them back to their ancestral homeland.
Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?
The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity. (synopsis via HERE)
Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?
The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity. (synopsis via HERE)
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Though Reading is Fashionable was not able to obtain an interview with Luanne Rice...
she was generous enough to send us a copy of her book for a GIVEAWAY...
To WIN a copy of The Silver Boat
Leave a comment to be entered to WIN... if you do not have a
website/blog please me be sure to give us your email address... DEADLINE
to enter is November 18 @ NOON California time.
Bonne Chance - Good Luck
Bonne Chance - Good Luck
Author Interview with Kristin Harmel
November 10, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
Kristin graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications (Go Gators!) She has lived in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Miami and now resides primarily in Orlando, Fla.
Where do you read
November 9, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
The COLD and rainy weather the last few days has made me WISH I could stay in bed and read... and apparently EVERYONE loves to read in bed...
Where do YOU read? Would LOVE to have YOU show EVERYONE... please email photos and a little description... Contact link is in the sidebar... Cannot wait to hear for YOU!!!
The COLD and rainy weather the last few days has made me WISH I could stay in bed and read... and apparently EVERYONE loves to read in bed...
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Where do YOU read? Would LOVE to have YOU show EVERYONE... please email photos and a little description... Contact link is in the sidebar... Cannot wait to hear for YOU!!!
My Book Stack
November 8, 2011 by Hinna
I've
got loads more, but thought I'd start off with these.
Hinna
Would LOVE to have YOU share... Simply snap a photo and email it to
us... if you have a website/blogsite give us the URL address and we will
link your photo to YOUR site or just YOUR name works too!
Contact link in the sidebar... Looking forward to hearing from YOU!
Contact link in the sidebar... Looking forward to hearing from YOU!
Skirted Book Storage
November 7, 2011 by Better Homes and Garden
A ready-to-assemble bookcase becomes an attractive focal point when draped with a cafe curtain. Attach a lightweight curtain rod to the top of the bookcase; add the fabric you fancy.
A ready-to-assemble bookcase becomes an attractive focal point when draped with a cafe curtain. Attach a lightweight curtain rod to the top of the bookcase; add the fabric you fancy.
LOVE the idea of pouring a libation and reading from this book shelf!
See what your people are transforming on Metamorphosis Monday
Author Interview with Ann Mah
November 4, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
Ann Mah is a food and travel writer and author of a novel, Kitchen
Chinese. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Conde Nast
Traveler, the International Herald Tribune and other publications. She
lives in Paris and is currently at work on a book about French regional
cuisine. Follow her food adventures here.
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Time to ask Ann a few questions...
Book of the Moment
November 2, 2011 by Barnes & Noble
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Perceptive, inventive, innovative - these
and other telling adjectives have been applied to the late Steve Jobs in the
wake of his recent death. But, for all their aptness, they failed to deliver
a full portrait of the visionary Apple leader. Now, with the publication of
Walter Isaacson's eagerly awaited biography, readers have one.
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
YOU can purchase the book HERE
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Author Interview with Kim Gruenenfelder
December 2, 2011 by Fifi Flowers
Kim
Gruenenfelder lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son, and
continues to avoid anything even remotely resembling a real job. Her
acclaimed debut novel, A Total Waste of Makeup, has been published in six languages and eight international editions to date. In addition to her three published novels, A Total Waste of Makeup, Misery Loves Cabernet and There’s Cake In My Future,
she has written feature films, episodic teleplays and two stage plays.
Kim loves her fans and readers, who can contact her here, as well as
follow her through her Facebook. and Twitter.
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Let's talk Cake with Kim...
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