Mon, April 20th, 2009
Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: March Madness is behind us and I’m at a loss. College basketball is my favorite fan sport, and even the excitement of the Masters golf tournament doesn’t completely satisfy the hole I feel in my sports world each April. Fortunately, there’s a tonic for us round ball fanatics in David Gill’s debut novel, Soul [...]
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Wed, April 15th, 2009
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Whenever Lynn makes me read a science fiction book I respond by forcing her to read something that tugs at her emotions. She would rather cavort with aliens than have to pull out a tissue while she reads. Oh well, baseball season is upon us and I’ve been begging her to read The Girl [...]
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Mon, March 23rd, 2009
Swim the Fly by Don Calame
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: We first wrote about Swim the Fly (Candlewick, April 2009) back in November at our original blog site, and you can read the complete comments here. But this funny book has done laps in our brains since then and we wanted to reprise our enthusiasm for it now that its pub date [...]
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Sat, February 21st, 2009
Basketball Showdown
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: How do arch rivals survive together? Very carefully. Lynn is a dyed in the (black and gold) wool Purdue Boilermaker while I am an Indiana Hoosier fanatic. Big Ten Basketball season tests our friendship every winter. When we worked in the same library we used to threaten to put a line down the middle [...]
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