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The 15th annual South Carolina Book Festival will be held May 14 and 15, 2011 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in downtown Columbia, SC.   I have been to 3 of the festivals and I truly enjoy the event.  Each year the festival seems to get bigger and better.
Information that I received from the sponsoring […]

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Written as a letter to his daughter’s, Malia and Sasha, the forty-forth president of the United States Barack Obama’s new book, of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters is a wonderful way to introduce children to a few of the great individuals who have helped shape our country.  With a target audience of 4 […]

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There are so many talented writers.  Through the ages, our lives have been enriched and changed by people who have the desire, the knowledge, the ability, and the creativity to write.  And I, for one, am thankful for them.
I love to read and I guess I read a lot, but I often get frustrated that […]

Continue Reading More Time to Read? More Listening?

Tags: Harold Myra, Mark Nepo, One Extraordinary Day, The Confession, The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life

Let me say up front that I have long been a fan of John Grisham.  Grisham has now written 25 books and I have read all of them except for Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, which was released in May 201o and was written for teen readers.  I have that book and it is on my personal “short […]

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All of a sudden it is mid-November!  Thanksgiving Day is a week away.  So where has the fall gone?  It seems that just a couple of weeks ago we were at my son’s back to school event, “Shamrock Showcase.”  We were getting into the fall routine, which I tend to love, even though our temperatures here […]

Continue Reading Books ~ The Ultimate Christmas Gift!

Tags: and Songs for Making Lasting Memories, Andrew Attaway, Back in the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used to Know How t, Candice Miller, Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Ange (The Infernal Devices), Daily Guideposts 2011, Dennis Lehane, Frank Beddor, In the Company of Others, Jan Karon, Jeffrey Toobin, John Bredar, Kathryn Stockett, Michael Powell, Moonlight Mile, My Reading Life, of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, Pat Conroy, Poems, Rick Riordan, Ruby Holler, Sharon Creech, Stories, Susan Magsamen, The Boy Who Changed the World, The Classic Treasury of Childhood Wonders: Favorite Adv, The Help, The Heroes of Olympus Book One: The Lost Hero, The Looking Glass Wars, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Ov, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journe

Last week I had yet another birthday (that annual event seems to roll around pretty quickly in recent years!).  For my birthday, my wife and son and my in-laws went in together and bought me the latest version of the Kindle, Amazon’s electronic book.  I was very surprised by the gift since I had not mentioned wanting […]

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September 2010  NEW RELEASES
Release 9/7/2010
     The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow       
     Her Daughter’s Dream (Marta’s Legacy)  by Francine Rivers      
     Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army’s First Blind Active-Duty Officer  by Scott Smiley & Doug Crandall      
     Wicked Appetite (Diesel)  by Janet Evanovich
Release Date 9/28/2010
     Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)  by Ken […]

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It is interesting to look occasionally at the Bestseller Lists from the major online booksellers.  Currently dominating the Top 20 (actually Top 21) with both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com are two very recently popular authors, Suzanne Collins and the late Steig Larsson.
Both authors’ books are part of trilogies.  Suzanne Collins’ latest release Mockingjay (The Final Book of […]

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“The Walk: A Novel” is the latest book from Richard Paul Evans, a prolific writer who is maybe best known for his book “The Christmas Box”.  In this novel, which is the first of a planned series, Evans writes about Alan Christoffersen, a 28 year-old who has just lost his wife, McKale, who died from […]

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BookExpo America, an annual gathering of booksellers, publishers and authors ended last Thursday, May 27th.  Approximately 30,000 people were in attendance.  Wouldn’t it be exciting to be surrounded by that much “book talk, book people, and book promotions?” Read a complete story from USA Today which highlights all the excitement of BookExpo America 2010 and features […]

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