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Authors Reviewed

  • Adriani Trigiani
  • Agnete Friis
  • Aimee Bender
  • Alexander Dumas
  • Alison Hart
  • Alix Strauss
  • Andrew Xia Fukuda
  • Angela Davis-Gardner
  • Anne Eliot Compton
  • Anne Enright
  • Anouk Markovits
  • Audrey Niffenegger
  • Banana Yoshimoto
  • Barbara K. Richardson
  • Basho
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Brian Andreas
  • Brooke Morgan
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Camille Noe Pagan
  • Carlyn Beccia
  • Carol Greene
  • Carolyn Eberhart
  • Charles Dickens
  • Charlotte Bronte
  • Christopher Paolini
  • Dan Brown
  • Daniel Silva
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Daphne du Maurier
  • Daphne Kalatoy
  • Dashiell Hammett
  • David Adams Richards
  • David Finkle
  • Deborah Lawrenson
  • Diane Setterfield
  • Dick Francis
  • Dodie Smith
  • Donna Leon
  • Donna Tartt
  • Dori Ostermiller
  • Douglas Florian
  • Elena Ferrante
  • Elizabeth Alston
  • Elizabeth Buchan
  • Elizabeth George
  • Elizabeth Percer
  • Elizabeth Von Armin
  • Ellen Feldman
  • Emile Zola
  • Emily Listfield
  • Emma Donaghue
  • Eowyn Ivey
  • Erica Kirov
  • Erick Setiawan
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Francesca Simon
  • Francine Prose
  • Frank Delaney
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Gail Tsukiyama
  • George Eliot
  • George R.R. Martin
  • Georges Perec
  • Georgette Heyer
  • Glenn Dakin
  • Gregory Maguire
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Helen Simonson
  • Henry Green
  • Hillary Jordan
  • Ian McEwan
  • Ilan Shamir
  • Ingrid Law
  • Isabelle Allende
  • Ivan Doig
  • J. K. Rowling
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • James Alexander Thom
  • James Salter
  • Jamie Ford
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Jane Austen
  • Jean Davies Okimoto
  • Jeanine Shortridge
  • Jeanne DuPrau
  • Jeannette Winterson
  • Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Jeffrey Ford
  • Jennifer Cody Epstein
  • Jennifer Haigh
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Jo Nesbø
  • Joan Leegant
  • John Connolly
  • John Grisham
  • John Hershey
  • John Le Carre
  • JoJo Moyes
  • Jose Saramago
  • Joy Preble
  • Julia Strachey
  • Julie Otsuka
  • Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Justin Kramon
  • Kaleb Nation
  • Kamala Nair
  • Kaoru Nonomura
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Kate DiCamillo
  • Kate Kerrigan
  • Katherine Howe
  • Kathryn Fitzmaurice
  • Kathryn Harrison
  • Kathryn Stockett
  • Katie Alender
  • Kenneth Grahame
  • Kenzaburo Oe
  • Kim Norman
  • Kim Wright
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Lene Kaaberbol
  • Linda Olsson
  • Lisa Genova
  • Lisa Mantchev
  • Lisa See
  • Louise Penny
  • Lucinda Riley
  • Lynn Cullen
  • Lynne Griffin
  • M. E. Breen
  • M. J. Rose
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Malena Watrous
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Margaret Sweatman
  • Marghanita Laski
  • Markus Zusak
  • Marlena de Blasi
  • Mary Ann Rodman
  • Mary Ann Shaffer
  • Mary Shelley
  • Mary-Ann Kirkby
  • Matthew Gallaway
  • Maud Carol Markson
  • Mavis Gallant
  • Melanie Watt
  • Mervyn Peake
  • Michael Alenyikov
  • Michael Chabon
  • Michael Crichton
  • Michelle Knudsen
  • Miyuki Miyabe
  • Molly Peacock
  • Muriel Barbery
  • Nancy Bo Flood
  • Nancy Oelklaus
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Natsuo Kirino
  • Nayana Currimbhoy
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Orhan Pamuk
  • Oscar Hijuelos
  • Owen Wister
  • Patricia Highsmith
  • Patrick Carmen
  • Paula Butturini
  • Paula McLain
  • Pseudonyumous Bosch
  • Qiu Xioalong
  • Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Richard Paul Evans
  • Rick Riordan
  • Rob Buyea
  • Robert B. Parker
  • Robert Frost
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Robert Parker
  • Roberto Bolano
  • Robin Antalek
  • Ryu Murakami
  • S. J. Watson
  • Sally Koslow
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Sandra Dallas
  • Sara Gruen
  • Sara Pennypacker
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  • Sarah Waters
  • Scott Smith
  • Seicho Matsumoto
  • Sharon Creech
  • Sharon Lathan
  • Sheridan Hay
  • Shirley Jackson
  • Shoko Tendo
  • Shuichi Yoshida
  • Shusaku Endo
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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  • Steig Larsson
  • Stephanie Kallos
  • Stephen King
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  • Taichi Yamada
  • Tana French
  • Taro Yashima
  • Tina Brown
  • Tohru Fujisawa
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  • Ueda Akinari
  • Valerie Laken
  • Velma Wallis
  • Vendela Veda
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Vladimir Nabakov
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  • Wendy Burden
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  • Yukio Mishima

Friends and Book Lovers

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  • Wuthering Expectations
    Everything always reminds one of its opposite - not writing about Robert Walser
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    Twelfth Night
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  • Tripping Toward Lucidity: Estella's Revenge
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    'I've gone in for photography, and find it very absorbing'
  • caribousmom
    The Elephant Keeper – Book Review
  • Armchair BEA Central
    Stop! Button time...
  • Stainless Steel Droppings
    John Picacio: An Artist’s View of Spectrum Fantastic Art Live
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    Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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    May with Gladys and Rachel
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    Pin It and Do It: Another Update
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    Armchair Audies 2012 – History category: overview and prediction
  • Madeleine's Book & Photo Blog
    Beautiful houses inspired by famous novels
  • Bibliophile By the Sea
    Waiting on Wednesday - Magnificence; Lydia Millet
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
    Katie Ward’s Girl Reading Readalong June 25 2012
  • Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity
    Pin It and Do It - My Progress Report
  • Lakeside Musing
    May Acquisitions
  • A Literary Odyssey
    My Victorian Celebration Reading Plans.
  • The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader
    Library Loot: 30 May to 5 June
  • Pairie Horizons
    Wordless Wednesday
  • Stuff as Dreams are Made on
    I have the best friends!
  • The Boston Bibliophile
    REVIEW: Varamo, by César Aira
  • The Book Coop
    Readers’ Workouts
  • The Reading Life
    John Sexton-Two Works of Flash Fiction
  • Picky Girl: I read. I teach. I blog. (pickily)
    The Great Gatsby Trailer…De-glitzed
  • 1morechapter.com
    My thoughts on the 2012 Orange Prize (6 of 6 shortlist titles read); and LT shadow jury winner
  • an adventure in reading
    BOOK: Swann by Carol Shields
  • A Bookish Way of Life
    JLC6 is almost here...
  • Coffee and a Book Chick
    Reminders on May/June 2012 Book Releases
  • chasing bawa
    Slightly Peckish Tuesday
  • Suko's Notebook
    The Paper Garden: Review and Giveaway
  • Ready When You Are, C.B.
    Still Life by Louise Penny
  • My Years of Reading Seriously
    Duck Lake Fire
  • Bookfoolery and Babble
    Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan and week-off chatter
  • JoV's Book Pyramid
    Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
  • The Task at Hand
    Yoani Sanchez ~ After Five Years
  • Farm Lane Books Blog
    The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
  • We Be Reading
    Comfort Reads: Conrad's Fate and The Pinhoe Egg
  • flowersandstripes
    The Uncommon Reader
  • The Literary Stew
    Orange Reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  • Simpler Pastimes
    Events all Around
  • Liburuak
    And the Winner is…
  • My Random Acts of Reading
    Yes, still on a break but look at my little friend...
  • The Parrish Lantern
    Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma - Órfhlaith Foyle
  • SNOW FEATHERS
    Ten People, Ten Colours... Ten Books
  • Care's Online Book Club
    Before I Go To Sleep
  • The View from Larkspur Lane
    EGGPLANT. AUBERGINE.
  • Winstonsdad's Blog
    Spanish Language Lit Month July 2012
  • Ripple Effects
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • In Spring it is the Dawn
    Under construction... please excuse the mess!
  • A Book Sanctuary
    Therapy – Sebastian Fitzek
  • Boarding In My Forties
    Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
  • Sam Still Reading
    Mailbox Monday 21/5/12: Bloomsbury Saves the Day
  • Col Reads
    Weekend "Cooking" in China
  • Vintage Reads
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Thinking About Loud!
    Thoughts: The Outcast by Sadie Jones
  • kiss a cloud
  • Interpolations
    on incessant business prattle … oh, and disfigurement
  • Nonsuch Book
    antigonick by sophokles translated by anne carson illustrated by bianca stone
  • Thyme for Tea
    Information as Food
  • third-storey window
    Midnight's Children
  • Dusty Trails and Porch Swings
    Country Meadow Tea = Nostalgia
  • Tip of the Iceberg
    Tip of the Iceberg on Tumblr
  • Mad Bibliophile
    The Year So Far…
  • Paperback Reader
    A fresh page
  • an everyday life
    Spaghetti … With Love

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But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may rejoice in you.
Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous;

you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

~Psalm 5:11-12


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