Canned Laughter

Now that summer is here, I hope that everyone is filling their beach bags with fun vacation reads.  I have to say, my bag is empty right now.  I need your help finding quick, fun, light books to fill my lazy hours.  So here’s the deal:
Leave me your best summer fluff read (title & author, please) in the [...]

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Do you remember me telling you about Sarah’s fundraiser for War Child?  Well, the  book is finished and You’re Not The Only One is now avilable for sale.  And the best part?  It features an essay by the very hot and talented Hotfessional!   Congratulations Hot!  Now here’s how you can read her essay as well [...]

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Congratulations to Jess Riley of Riley’s Ramblings and The Debutant Ball. Her debut novel, Driving Sideways was released for sale today! I have been panting expectantly for this book and am tapping my foot impatiently waiting for my copy. This excerpt that I totally lifted off her amazon page should get you panting too:

CHAPTER ONE

I [...]

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What a doll! Here my Spouse and I are with Jen Lancaster (in pearls!) a moment after I assaulted her. But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself here. First let me tell you what led up to the assault.
My Spouse, who thinks her books are as much of a hoot as I do, volunteered to [...]

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I can’t believe the things that have come out of my mouth this morning. For instance:
“I love my 1962 faux brick linoleum tile floor!”
My kitchen floor is the world’s ugliest, discolored, hole ridden mess you have ever seen. In 1962 when our home was built, I know it must have been absolutely elegant. I know [...]

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Cross posted at Goodreads:
Because I have an over-inflated opinion of myself, I generally avoid self-help books like the plague. So when my best friend K. gave me a copy of her kid sister’s new book: Change Your Reality, Change Your Life, I have to admit to thumbing through it then passing it along. First [...]

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I just finished the latest book from Linda Francis Lee, The Ex-Debutante. This one is a romp! As much as I enjoyed The Devil in the Junior League, there was a teensy bit of New Yawk sensibility to it that wasn’t quite to my taste. This time around, Ms. Lee hit just the right note. [...]

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In 1939 DuBose Heyward wrote a very special Easter story called The Country Bunny and the little gold shoes. It is the story of “a little country girl bunny with a brown skin and a little cotton ball of a tail” who said, “Some day I shall grow up to be an Easter Bunny:-you [...]

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I don’t usually pass along e-mails but this one about a book written by a mutual acquaintance tickled me so, I thought I’d pass it along:

A friend of mine decided to sit down and write his autobiography and yours truly is in a chapter of it. Yep I am in print! I announce this because [...]

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I submitted a post for the You’re Not the Only One book project benefiting War Child, a British charity helping children in war torn countries. They are going to be accepting submissions until March 9th. Here’s the skinny on this worthy project via Peach:

You must be a blogger with a live blog

It must [...]

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