Spotlight Series Tour Stops: Graywolf Press

Many thanks to everyone who has signed up for the Spotlight Series Tour for Graywolf Press. Please join us July 18 - 31 to check out these great books on tour and visit with our participants. Below are the list of all blog stops on the tour and the book that will be reviewed. 

Note to Participants: If you would like to change the book you are reviewing, please let us know and we will edit this page. Also, if you have not yet chosen your book, please let us know as soon as possible so we may update the schedule. Thank you!

July 18, 2010

The Five Borough Book Review - War Memorials by Clint McCown

Savvy Verse & Wit - Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland

July 19, 2010

Buried in Print - Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer

Rebecca Reads - The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

7/20/2010

Life is a Patchwork Quilt - Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter

book-a-rama - Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer

7/21/2010

Commonly  - Everything Preserved by Landis Everson

Fizzy Thoughts  - Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs

7/22/2010

A Good Stopping Point -  Jack and Rochelle by Lawrence Sutin and Jack & Rochelle Sutin 

Sophisticated Dorkiness - The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts 

7/23/2010

BookSexy Review - I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett 

Layers of Thought - Rainy Lake by Mary Rockcastle 

7/24/2010

Lizzy's Literary Life - Tearjerker by Daniel Hayes 

Notes from the North - The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee 

7/25/2010

BookLust  - Operation Monsoon by Shona Ramaya

1330v - Picking Bones From Ash by Marie Mutsaki Mockett
Tutu's Two Cents  - The Delicacy and Strength of Lace by Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright

7/26/2010

Girls Gone Reading - Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson

7/27/2010

My Friend Amy - The End by Salvatore Scibona

Paperclip People - The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter

7/28/2010

Caribousmom  - I Curse the River of Time by Per Patterson

BookNAround  - Rainy Lake by Mary Rockcastle

Only Words To Play With - Tearjerker by Daniel Hayes

Reading on a Rainy Day  - A House at the Edge of Tears by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Marilyn Hacker

7/29/2010

The Black Sheep Dances  - I Curse the River of Time by Per Patterson

In Spring It Is The Dawn - Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad

7/30/2010

Musings of a Bookish Kitty - How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique

The Professor's Wife - The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts
A Novel Source - The End by Salvatore Scibona

7/31/2010

I Love You Something - The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda

Scattered Chapter - Close Calls with Nonsense by Stephen Burt

wdors wrdos wodrs  - Black Glasses Like Clark Kent by Terese Svoboda

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Spotlight Series Tour Stops!: NYRB

Thanks to everyone who has signed up for the Spotlight Series tour for New York Review Books Classics. Please join us May 16-22 to check out these great books on tour and visit the our participants. Below are the list of all blog stops on the tour and the book that will be reviewed.

Note to Participants:  If you would like to change the book you are reviewing, please let us know and we will edit this page!

May 16

We Be Reading - Great Granny Webster
My Friend Amy - Manservant and Maidservant
Things Mean a Lot - Nonsense Novels
paorta-kremvax conglomerate - The Goshawk
Musings of a Bookish Kitty - Hard Falling Rain

May 17

Just William's Luck - A Meaningful Life
Jenny's Books - The Dud Avocado
Milk and Honey - A Book of Mediterranean Food & Summer Cooking
Letters Journal - One-Straw Revolution
BookLust -  An African in Greenland

May 18

Cold, Colder, Coldest - The True Deceiver
blogocentrism - Stoner
page 247- The Summer Book
Commonly - Miserable Miracle
BookLust - Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

May 19

Fleur Fisher Reads - The Child
We Be Reading - The 13 Clocks
Kaleidoglide - All About H. Hatterr
Stiletto Storytime - Summer Will Show
The Evening Reader - The Siege of Krishnapur
Raging Bibliomania - Wish Her Safe at Home

May 20

A Good Stopping Point - The Summer Book
A Few of My Favourite Books - Hons and Rebels
book-a-rama - One Straw Revolution
The Researcher's Tale - The Go-Between
Scattered Chapter - Letters: Summer 1926

May 21 

Lizzy's Literary Life - The Snows of Yesteryear
A Collection of Small Things - Nightmare Alley
PeetSwea - Wish Her Safe at Home

May 22

Tell Me a Story - The Strangers in the House
Book Magic - Wish Her Safe at Home
Literarily Speaking - A Month in the Country
The Professor's Wife -The Lore and Language of School Children
Magnificent Octopus - Sunflower
Five Borough Book Review - The Old Man and Me
Our Towns - The Way of the World

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Spotlight Series Tour Stops!: Unbridled Books

Thank you everyone who signed up to participate in the Spotlight Series!  Even if you didn't sign up, but want to add more fantastic books to your TBR pile, check out the following blogs, all of which will be stops on the Unbridled Books Spotlight Tour.  Below are the list of all blog stops on the tour and the book that will be reviewed.


Note to Participants:  If you would like to change the book you are reviewing, please let us know and we will edit this page!




March 14
Chris Book-a-Rama - Angel and Apostle


March 15
Bookalicious - Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
NovelWhore - The Good Doctor Guillotin


March 16
Fizzy Thoughts - In Hovering Flight
Beth Fish Reads - Taroko Gorge


March 17
Tutu's Two Cents - The Singer's Gun


March 18
A Striped Armchair - Cranioklepty:  Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius AND The Green Age of Asher Witherow


March 19
Literarily Speaking - The Annotated Nose


March 20
Booklust - Rain Village
Rundpinne - Last Night in Montreal



March 21
Literary Feline - 31 Hours
Wyvernfriend - The Pirate's Daughter


March 22
Only You - The Journal of Antonio Montoya
Tell Me a Story - The Pirate's Daughter
Flight into Fantasy - An Unfinished Score




March 23
Reading on a Rainy Day -  Last Night in Montreal
PeetSwea - 31 Hours


March 24
Linus's Blanket - Evolution of Shadows
Lit & Life - An Unfinished Score

March 25
A Good Stopping Point - Abbeville


March 26
she reads and reads - Conscience Point
Notes from the North - The Distance Between Us


March 27 
My Friend Amy - Hunger
Rundpinne - The Singer's Gun

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