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Monthly Archives: March 2008


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Sunday, March 30, 2008
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Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon | The best laid plans…

Hello fellow saloners – I wasn’t sure I’d actually be able to post today – I updated my websites last night to WordPress 2.5 and managed to break them… so today, instead of working through my to do list, catching up with saloners, and reading my latest book I’ve spent about 7 hours trying to [...]

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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4 stars

Book Review | Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

Good Harbor – Buy this book
Rating
4 stars – an ejoyable read
Description from Amazon
From the bestselling author of THE RED TENT come a contemporary novel that explores the burden of secrets, the weight of grief and the healing power of female friendship When Kathleen meets Joyce, each woman has come to a turning point in her [...]

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Sunday, March 23, 2008
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5 stars

Book review | Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar

Secrets of a Family Album – Buy this book
Rating
5 stars – a book so comfortable you’ll want to read it more than once
Description – from Amazon
Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe – photographer, [...]

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Sunday, March 23, 2008
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Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon | Egg in a cup

I know I’ve already posted today – but I just finished a chapter of Secrets of a Family Album that was so true to life that I wanted to share it – the canny knack people have when you are trying to tell them some important news or gossip of just hearing what they want [...]

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Sunday, March 23, 2008
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Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon | Some questions answered

Happy Easter everyone. I had plans to share my thoughts on Isla Dewar’s Secrets of a Family Album today as I’m half way through – but I’ve decided instead to post some answers to a few questions that my fellow readers have posed this week – for part of the enjoyment of reading is sharing [...]

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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4 stars

Book Review | Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

Body Surfing – Buy this book
Rating
4 stars – a really enjoyable read
Description
At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire [...]

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Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon | Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

Sunday afternoons are made for reading – especially on a day like today when the weather is dark and dreary and all you want to do is curl up on the sofa with a good book. I’ve spent quite a lot of Sunday afternoons this way this winter – it’s been so dark and depressing.Today [...]

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