Not a huge group this month at the San Antonio Book Lovers Meetup, but some interesting variety in reads. Bill finished the poling for our future location, and we will start meeting at the Brook Hollow Library next month (Yay), with the La Madeleine location still a possibility for those days we are unable to […]
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San Antonio Book Lovers Book Meet & Swap We had a great start today when author and club member Karen Casey Fitzjerrell spoke to us about her two historical novels, EPIC-Award-winning The Dividing Season and Forgiving Effie Beck. Karen explained how she began writing (“by accident” while journalling) and how that led her to write
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The Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins (Harper Voyager) Paperback ISBN: 978-1461076384 I don’t read a lot of post-apocalyptic books; they really depress me. But I was fortunate enough to find this one on a free Kindle list and gave it a shot. [Note: Although this novel is
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Touched By Fire by Irene N. Watts Historical fiction Published September, 2013 by Tundra Books Hardcover, 206 pages This is the story of a young woman named Miriam Markovitz, whose family lived in Russia in the early part of the last century. Wanting to escape the horrible conditions under which they lived and the persecutions
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Foundling: The Foundling’s Tale Part One by D.M. Cornish Publisher: Speak ISBN: 978-0142409138 Pages: 448 (Paperback) I enjoyed this book because Cornish creates a fascinating alternate universe and includes an interesting supporting cast. The main character, on the other hand, does very little in the book except watch things happen, wish he was somewhere else, try
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There were 28 members and friends today at La Madeleine to talk about their books and swap a few, too. Here is the extensive list: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright Foundling (The Foundling’s Tale, Part One) by D.M. Cornish Leviathan (Leviathan Trilogy) by Scott Westerfield Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century)
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One of the ladies in the On the Same Page Ladies Book Club recently asked if I’ve ever given a book 5 stars. The question came about because I have yet to rate of our book club reads higher than a 3 on a 1-to-5 scale. I never thought of myself as a picky reader,
