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Archive for October, 2009

31 Oct, 2009

Review: Cake Keeper Cakes

Posted by: Susan In: Cooking Lit

Bibliography:  Chattman, Lauren.  (2009).  Cake Keeper Cakes.  New York: Taunton Press.  ISBN: 9781600851209
Review: I have many memories of cakes.  Birthday cakes, special cakes only made at Christmas, cakes I made to enter at the state fair.  Many of these were baked in a bundt or tube pan, and often served plain or only with a [...]

24 Oct, 2009

Fall Reading: Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon

Posted by: Susan In: Virtual Lit

Sunday, October 25, 2009
11:30 a.m.–Read-a-thon is over.  I managed to squeeze in some reading in the last few hours before I had to hurriedly dress and dash off to church.  I finished Where Serpents Sleep by C. S. Harris.  I think it was the best Sebastian St. Cyr mystery so far.  I really enjoy the [...]

23 Oct, 2009

Review: In the Path of Falling Objects

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography:  Smith, Andrew.  (September 2009).  In the Path of Falling Objects.  New York: Fewiel and Friends.  ISBN: 9780312375584
Plot Summary:  Jonah and Simon are on a road trip, but it isn’t a teenage lark.  Abandoned by their mother, out of food and water, they pack the little precious possessions they own and set out across the [...]

20 Oct, 2009

Review: Girl in the Arena

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography:  Haines, Lise. (2009).  Girl in the Arena.  New York:  Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books.  ISBN:  978-1599903729
Plot Summary:  Teenaged Lyn  hangs out with her friends and works a not so glamorous job in fast food.  But when her latest father has a match, she is expected to be there in the arena watching next to her [...]


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