Month: December 2013

Books, Reading

Special Feature: Release Day Return to Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

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If you have been a follower of my blog for any length of time, you will recognize this author as one of frequent reads! I was first introduced to Debra Anastasia with her novel Poughkeepsie which I read a couple of years ago and fell in love with.

Since reading Poughkeepsie, I have also enjoyed reading Anastasia’s other books, Crush Seraphim and Bittersweet Seraphim. This week, Anastasia will be releasing yet another book that I will be reading for review shortly, Return to Poughkeepsie.

This novel is available for purchase on 12/30! Be sure to check it out and spread the word on this thrilling new installment! Here is a sneak peak about whats in store for readers!

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Review: The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

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Set in post-Ottoman Turkey, we meet a host of colorful and eccentric characters struggling to adjust in a rapidly developing modern world.

This book is full of allegorical references and presents a colorful and unique view of Turkish culture and society.

The book describes the setting up of the modern bureaucratic state. At the center of the story itself is our charming antihero, Hayri Irdal.

He has been described as infectiously charming and be becomes entwined with some interesting people–a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a clock whisperer-at the Time Regulation Institute.

The Institute it self is described as a “vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time”.

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Review: The India Fan by Victoria Holt

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Blackmail. Murder. Scandal. Lies. Deceit. Romance. Adventure. This book has it all!

Growing up, I loved Victoria Holt but sadly I haven’t read her in a number of years…..nor have I read many of her novels.

But she is the queen of a genre that calls to me–the gothic romance genre. When I saw The India Fan on Amazon, I knew it was time to it up this talented authoress again and see if she could still seduce me with her tales of suspense.

Drusilla Delany is the rectors daughter and has always grown up in the shadow of Framling House and the Framling family.

Fabian Framling has always been a spoiled child….over indulged by his domineering mother. Then there is his sister, the beautiful and impetuous Lavinia–she is everything that Drusilla is not.

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Giveaway: Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan

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A forbidden love affair with one of America’s best loved icons! Experience the love story for your self!

Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan for your enjoyment!

Giveaway runs 12/24/13 to 12/31/13

Winners will be announced 1/1/14.

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Review: Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan

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Many of you know Helen Keller as the ‘miracle’. The def/blind/mute that graduated from the prestigious Radcliffe College in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Keller toured the country telling the story of her life, giving lectures, and motivational speeches to thousands. But the story we didn’t get to hear was the one of how she fell in love.

In this fictional account of Keller’s love affair with her secretary Peter Fagan, the audience is treated to a unique world of people with disabilities who struggle to live normal lives.

Keller first meets Fagan when her long time companion, Annie Sullivan, grows ill on a tour. Fagan is dispatched to be Keller’s secretary but after meeting him, Keller is infatuated by him.

Both Keller and Fagan are socialists and opposed to the Great War. They are outspoken and find they have a lot in common. Fagan makes Keller feel things that she knows she shouldn’t–feelings that she should fight.

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