Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

January 10, 2012

Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell by Karen O’Brien

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Joni Mitchell Author: Karen O'Brien Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virgin Pub Release Date: 2002 Pages: 374

From her self-titled debut in 1968 through the masterpiece of Blue, her jazz experimentation years and her most recent album, Travelogue Now, Joni Mitchell has released 19 albums over the course of a career that has spanned almost 40 years. She’s a musician who has managed to be consistently innovative on her recorded output and who has worked

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Said and Done by Annie Sparrow

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Said and Done Author: Annie Sparrow Genre: Chick-Lit Publisher: Orbit Books Release Date: 2001 Pages: 358

Emma is a 35-year-old legal secretary. Working in a small office of a large solicitors firm in London hasn’t exactly prepared her for the high life, neither has marriage to Tony, her husband of seven years.

Tony left the army six years ago and has been working as a bouncer on the door of the local pub. Emma, has put on weight and hides behind

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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Author: Jacki Lyden Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 1999 Pages: 258

It seems Jacki Lyden has been running all her life. After college in Indiana and Cambridge, England she joined the rodeo trail; later, as a broadcaster and journalist, she began to travel all over the world. She even wrote this book on the run – starting it in London, showing it to a friend in Baghdad, continuing it in Canada and finishing

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Henrietta’s Dream: A Mother’s Remarkable Story of Love, Courage and Hope Against Impossible Odds by Henrietta Spink

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Henrietta's Dream Author: Henrietta Spink Genre: Biography Publisher: Coronet Release Date: Jan 3 2005 Pages: 290

Henrietta Spink is a normal woman. She has a job and a husband and when she discovers she is pregnant she is thrilled.

When Henry her son was born, she had a vision of him as a young man silently reading in a library. But quickly it became apparent that all was not right with Henry. He didn’t smile or gurgle at this mother, he didn’t cry

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She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: She's Come Undone Author: Wally Lamb Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Singapore Books Release Date: 1992 Pages: 405

She’s Come Undone is the story of a developing woman and her journey through life as she struggles to find her place. Told with every heart-breaking step of a woman who can never truly accept who she is and with all the scars that life has left her, Delores Price is a character that will stick with the reader.

What is most impressive about this

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Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sleep Toward Heaven Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Genre: Thriller Publisher: Zondervan Release Date: Feb 17 2004 Pages: 304

Set in the sweltering heat of Texas, American author Amanda Eyre Ward tackles the difficult and controversial issue of corporal punishment with her debut novel Sleep Toward Heaven. This book intertwines the lives of three women; a doctor from Manhattan, a convicted killer on Death Row and the wife whose husband has fallen victim to murder.

Through

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Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Song for Salamander Author: Miriam Gallagher Genre: Fiction Publisher: Trafford Publishing Release Date: Nov 1 2003 Pages: 238

The press release starts off like this ‘When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job’s Infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey. Just before Christmas, his plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past

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Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Notes on a Scandal Author: Zoe Heller Genre: General Fiction Release Date: 2007-01 Pages: 243

Notes on a Scandal’s rapid pace and fascinating characters is enough to keep a reader’s fingers turning as Zoë Heller tackles the difficult subject of age of consent. She explores the subject through the relationship between two close friends; Sheba, a teacher that gets involved with one of her pupils, and Barbara, Sheba’s colleague

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Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Scarecrow Author: Matthew Reilly Genre: Thriller Publisher: Pan Macmillan Release Date: Dec 1 2009 Pages: 524

This is Matthew Reilly’s third offering in the Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield series, following on from Ice Station Matthew Reilly admits that he set out to make this book a faster book that was more densely packed with plot than his previous books; no mean feat considering how fast moving and action-packed his earlier books were

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Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Roast Figs, Sugar Snow Author: Diana Henry Genre: Cookery Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Release Date: Sep 1 2014 Pages: 191

Derry woman and food writer Diana Henry has again come up trumps with her latest book, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow. Her first cookbook, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons, focused on the tastes and enchantments of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. With praise from Claudia Roden and its appearance twice on the Glenfiddich award shortlist, it became

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