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On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever

Patebooks ― http://patebooks.wordpress.com

a published writer, critic and avid reader blogging on books (mostly), living w/lupus (sometimes); aka Caroline Cousins

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Listed: Jun 10, 2011

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Summer of ’45

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― It’s the summer of 1945 and, in a big old house in a North Carolina mountain town, 10-year-old Helen is under the guardianship of her 22-year-old cousin Flora. From just that outline, I thought I knew what would happen in Gail Godwin’s...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading

Patebooks ― 4 days ago

From Mom

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― My timing is all off. After having spent the last two months with my mom, I’m not going to be with her on Mother’s Day. I left her some little presents and sent pretty Jacqui Lawson e-cards, and, of course, I’ll call. But we have...

Tags: Nonfiction, Reviews, Uncategorized, A Child's Garden Of Verses, Daphne Du Maurier, Elizabeth Benedict

Patebooks ― 1 week 5 days ago

Crime report

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― This time last year Mo Hayder’s Gone picked up the Edgar award for best novel. Now comes the sixth in the Jack Caffery series, Poppet (Grove/Atlantic, digital galley), and it’s another winner — chilling, twisted, and ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Alfred Hitchcock, Clea Simon

Patebooks ― 2 weeks 6 days ago

I see summer

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Yes, spring was late most places, but Florida is already prepping for a long, hot summer, as my pal Mike reminded me. Could I recommend some books for those seeking escape from the heat and humidity? You betcha. Here’s my TBR summer list, or ...

Tags: Fiction, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Carl Hiaasen, Elaine Viets, F.Scott Fitgerald

Patebooks ― 3 weeks 6 days ago

Dog days

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― I dreamed about my dog Doc last night. It was a good dream. I called his name and he broke away from a pack of lookalikes and came running. Then I was holding his wriggling fur and he was licking my face. Just like old times. Not sure what ...

Tags: Nonfiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Uncategorized, Caroline Cousins, Dogs

Patebooks ― 4 weeks 2 days ago

Spring break

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― You know how characters in rom-coms meet cute? The likeable threesome in Elinor Lipman’s The View from Penthouse B (Houghton Mifflin, digital galley) live cute. After Margot loses her divorce settlement to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi-scheme,...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Uncategorized, Chick Lit, Elinor Lipman, Kaye Wilkinson Barley

Patebooks ― 5 weeks 4 days ago

Family matters

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Jennifer Close’s first-rate first book Girls in White Dresses came out before Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls, but both writers clearly capture the humor and heartbreak of 20something characters trying on different selves in the...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Uncategorized, &quot, Girls'', Florida

Patebooks ― 6 weeks 3 days ago

All over again

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― My friend Dean recently banned the use of the old Yogi Berra saying “deja vu all over again” because it is misused and overused, cliched and redundant. But when I first started reading Kate Atkinson’s kaleidoscopic new novel ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Dr. Who

Patebooks ― 7 weeks 3 days ago

Moments, memories and dreams

Moments, memories and dreams

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― As a hospice volunteer, Joanna knows the importance of moments. Her own checkered past has led her back to the small North Carolina town of Fulton, where she made peace with her daddy and now records the last thoughts and words of the dying at the...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill

Patebooks ― 8 weeks 2 days ago

Women of mystery

Women of mystery

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill,” says former FBI agent Brigid Quinn near the beginning of Rage Against the Dying (St. Martins, digital galley), an engrossing first mystery from Becky Masterman. Brigid is willing ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, A Dying Fall

Patebooks ― 9 weeks 1 day ago

Grammar, ghosts, math, magic . . .

Grammar, ghosts, math, magic . . .

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Sometimes I think I want to go back to school. Not ordinary school-school but someplace exotic, like Hogwarts or Brakebills. Wexford, the London school in Maureen Johnson’s The Madness Underneath (Penguin Young Readers, digital galley),...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Arkwright Academy

Patebooks ― 10 weeks 3 days ago

Places in the heart

Places in the heart

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― I had the perfect excuse to put off packing this weekend to go back to Edisto — I was reading Beth Webb Hart’s engaging new novel, Moon Over Edisto (Thomas Nelson, purchased e-book), which is set on the South Carolina lowcountry island ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading

Patebooks ― 11 weeks 3 days ago

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