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Waldo County Village Soup, July 30, 2010
...s, Evangeline, Hugo's, Cinque Terra and The Farmer's Table. Authors Russo, Doiron, Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, Joyce Maynard, Jennifer Finney Boylan, James Hayman, Phillip Hoose, Ann Hood, Lily King and Betsy Sholl each will host a table. This will be a...
KHWB, June 23, 2010
...will end up directing Elliot Allagash. Last we heard, Reitman was hard at work writing an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel, Labor Day. He is also developing a football movie titled Whispers in Bedlam and a untitled project about a Hockey referee. It...
New York Times, June 5, 2010
...fragments of an autobiography here, though in fact the narrator, who sometimes calls herself Jane, sounds more like Joyce Maynard than Ann Beattie. “I became something of an overnight sensation, when I was 21, for an interview I gave The New York...
Brisbane Courier-Mail, April 7, 2010
...as a 'virtual prisoner'. They divorced in 1967, and in 1972 Salinger began a year-long relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, with whom he had been exchanging letters. In a sign of the lingering interest in Salinger, some letters he wrote to...
The Independent, March 25, 2010
...journey following a life-altering event. (Apr. 2010, Amy Einhorn Books-Penguin; rights sold in Australia and the Netherlands) - Joyce Maynard's The Good Daughters: From the author of To Die For, this novel follows two girls born on the same day in a...
Banner-Graphic, March 18, 2010
...Twitter account. Earlier in the day, Reitman's acknowledged that his next project should be an adaptation of Joyce Maynard book 'Labor Day...
CountryLife Online, March 2, 2010
...involves letters from Salinger. Fourteen letters, in fact, written by Salinger to an 18-year-old freshman at Yale, called Joyce Maynard. She had written an article in The New York Times Magazine called ?An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life', and her...
Terranet, February 14, 2010
...series of fourteen letters written by JD Salinger, the author of 'Catcher in the Rye,' to the 18-year-old Joyce Maynard sold in an auction in New York in 1999. Previously unpublished letters by the American novelist J.D. Salinger were revealed Friday,...
American Spectator, February 10, 2010
...but occasional reports of bizarre behavior. It saved me from striving vainly to keep up with trendier friends. Joyce Maynard, one of the few outsiders to be invited in, wrote a book about her trials with the New Hampshire hermit, At Home in the...
Providence Journal, February 9, 2010
...fictitious interview. Unflattering glimpses came from two memoirs, by Mr. Salinger’s daughter, Margaret, and by the writer Joyce Maynard, with whom he had an affair in the 1970s. If Mr. Salinger proved an unappealing celebrity, however, his work...
ASU Web Devil, February 5, 2010
...told that the student sold the story to a bigger newspaper behind his back, to when his ex-lover Joyce Maynard auctioned off personal love letters he had written to her during their teenage years, Salinger had been mistreated to the point of reclusion....
ASU Web Devil, February 5, 2010
...told that the student sold the story to a bigger newspaper behind his back, to when his ex-lover Joyce Maynard auctioned off personal love letters he had written to her during their teenage years, Salinger had been mistreated to the point of reclusion....
Concord Monitor, February 3, 2010
...s private life come largely through two works written by women in his life, his daughter Margaret and Joyce Maynard, an author and onetime Monitor columnist who had a long affair with him when she was 18 and he was 53. The details from the books are sad...
Silver Chips Online, February 1, 2010
...Never again making public appearances, Salinger only allowed one last lover into his aging world after age 53: Joyce Maynard, an 18-year-old. Salinger wanted to take on the role Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass took on - protector of innocence. He saw...
Times Live South Africa, January 30, 2010
...although against his will the veil of secrecy was partially lifted in recent years. In 1998 the author Joyce Maynard published her memoir At Home in the World, in which she detailed her eight-month affair with Salinger during the early '70s, when she was...
Huffington Post, January 30, 2010
...into willed obscurity as he got older. He wanted no one -- save the young and obviously talented Joyce Maynard, for a short while -- to see him as an aging man. Perhaps the greatest irony of his life is that he lived to be 91, older perhaps than...
Miami Herald, January 29, 2010
...no memories of him, to speak of, aside from gritty memoirs by his daughter, Margaret, and the writer Joyce Maynard, who, as a freshman at Yale, found herself in a claustrophobic grind of a relationship with him. And lawsuits protecting his privacy and...
Sydney Morning Herald, January 29, 2010
...lifetime.'' Married three times, he was the unappealing subject of memoirs by his daughter and a young lover, Joyce Maynard, who described his controlling personality. Last July he won an injunction to stop an unauthorised sequel to The Catcher in the...
New York Times, January 29, 2010
...we walked past his. We were even friends with his daughter, Margaret, though we never saw the infamous Joyce Maynard who reputedly had an affair with him when she was a college student. There were four of us kids until my little brother was born, then...
USA Today, January 29, 2010
...d share some of the more interesting items we've run across: A reprint from the memoirs of Joyce Maynard, who met him when she was 18 and later lived with him. The Daily Beast prints an excerpt from her 1998 book At Home in the World: A Memoir in which...
Newser, January 29, 2010
...is not the kind of memoir any father wants written about himself. The memoir of the 18-year-old girl, Joyce Maynard, a precocious writer of the kind he liked to write about, who he pursued and seduced, is even creepier. Curiously, he comes off in her...
KCBA Fox 35, January 29, 2010
...sued Hamilton over the publication of his biography and the 1999 publication of At Home in the World, Joyce Maynard's memoir detailing her relationship with Salinger in the 1970s. In 2000, Margaret published Dream Catcher, in which she paints her father...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, January 29, 2010
...in the news in the last few decades for what people have written about him. In 1998, author Joyce Maynard portrayed him as a control freak with eccentric eating habits and as a poor lover. in 2000, his daughter Margaret wrote a book about him, painting...
Telegraph, January 29, 2010
...Years On, which imagined Holden in his 70s. What did seep out was far from flattering. In 1998 Joyce Maynard, with whom he had an affair in 1973, published a memoir painting him as sexually manipulative. Two years later his daughter Margaret Salinger...
IAfrica.com, January 29, 2010
...market for any posthumous Salinger writings would likely be highly lucrative. Letters he wrote to his young lover Joyce Maynard, with whom he started a year-long relationship in 1972, sold for more than $150,000 at auction in 1999. In Hollywood, there is...
Mail & Guardian Online, January 29, 2010
...There he remarried, to Claire Douglas, had two children, and then divorced in 1967. In 1998, the writer Joyce Maynard published an account of her eight-month affair with Salinger in which she described his controlling personality. Two years later, one...
Washington Post, January 29, 2010
...no memories of him, to speak of, aside from gritty memoirs by his daughter, Margaret, and the writer Joyce Maynard, who, as a freshman at Yale, found herself in a claustrophobic grind of a relationship with him. And lawsuits protecting his privacy and...
Kitchener Record, January 28, 2010
...unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home. A year earlier, author and former Salinger girlfriend Joyce Maynard had written that Salinger used to write daily and had at least two novels stored away. Salinger, who died Wednesday at age 91, began...
Washington Post, January 28, 2010
...no memories of him, to speak of, aside from gritty memoirs by his daughter, Margaret, and the writer Joyce Maynard, who, as a freshman at Yale, found herself in a claustrophobic grind of a relationship with him. And lawsuits protecting his privacy and...
Meri News, January 28, 2010
...nurse and quiltmaker, whom he married around 1988. In 1999, twenty-five years after the end of their relationship, Joyce Maynard put up for auction a series of letters Salinger had written to her. Maynard's memoir of her life and her relationship with...
Yahoo! News Australia, January 28, 2010
...market for any posthumous Salinger writings would likely be highly lucrative. Letters he wrote to his young lover Joyce Maynard, with whom he started a year-long relationship in 1972, sold for more than 150,000 dollars at auction in 1999. In Hollywood,...
KCOY 12, January 28, 2010
...unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home. A year earlier, author and former Salinger girlfriend Joyce Maynard had written that Salinger used to write daily and had at least two novels stored away. Salinger, who died Wednesday at age 91, began...
USA Today, January 28, 2010
...to read The New York Times Sunday Magazine. In 1973, the then-53-year-old author wrote a letter to 18-year-old Joyce Maynard after she published a cover story in the magazine in 1973. A photo of the waif-like Maynard accompanied the piece. Her writing...
Brisbane Courier-Mail, January 28, 2010
...as a 'virtual prisoner'. They divorced in 1967, and in 1972 Salinger began a year-long relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, with whom he had been exchanging letters. In a sign of the lingering interest in Salinger, some letters he wrote to...
Adelaide Now, January 28, 2010
...as a "virtual prisoner". They divorced in 1967, and in 1972 Salinger began a year-long relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, with whom he had been exchanging letters. In a sign of the lingering interest in Salinger, some letters he wrote to...
Times Online, January 28, 2010
...although against his will the veil of secrecy was partially lifted in recent years. In 1998, the author Joyce Maynard published her memoir At Home in the World, in which she detailed her eight-month affair with Salinger in the early 1970s, when she was...
Times Online, January 28, 2010
...although against his will the veil of secrecy was partially lifted in recent years. In 1998, the author Joyce Maynard published her memoir At Home in the World, in which she detailed her eight-month affair with Salinger in the early 1970s, when she was...
Battle Creek Enquirer, January 28, 2010
...to read The New York Times Sunday Magazine. In 1973, the then-53-year-old author penned a letter to 18-year-old Joyce Maynard after she published a cover story in the magazine in 1973. A photo of the waif-like Maynard accompanied the piece. Her writing...
Brisbane Times, January 28, 2010
...memoirs, The Dream Catcher They divorced in 1967, and in 1972 Salinger began a year-long relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, with whom he had been exchanging letters. In a sign of the lingering interest in Salinger, some letters he wrote to...
Yahoo! News, January 28, 2010
...market for any posthumous Salinger writings would likely be highly lucrative. Letters he wrote to his young lover Joyce Maynard, with whom he started a year-long relationship in 1972, sold for more than 150,000 dollars at auction in 1999...
Sydney Morning Herald, January 28, 2010
...market for any posthumous Salinger writings would likely be highly lucrative. Letters he wrote to his young lover Joyce Maynard, with whom he started a year-long relationship in 1972, sold for more than 150,000 US dollars at auction in 1999...
AFP via Yahoo!, January 28, 2010
...market for any posthumous Salinger writings would likely be highly lucrative. Letters he wrote to his young lover Joyce Maynard, with whom he started a year-long relationship in 1972, sold for more than 150,000 dollars at auction in 1999...
Perth Now, January 28, 2010
...as a "virtual prisoner". They divorced in 1967, and in 1972 Salinger began a year-long relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, with whom he had been exchanging letters. In a sign of the lingering interest in Salinger, some letters he wrote to...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, January 4, 2010
...of our most memorable posts of the year, from Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout's own prize-winning favorites to Joyce Maynard's true-life tale about how a single book club meeting changed her life. Enjoy the holidays. We'll be back on January 4th! posted...
MoviesOnline, December 1, 2009
...you know what your next projects are going to be? JR: My next projects are I’m adapting Joyce Maynard’s new book, “Labor Day,” and I’m working with Jenny Lumet, who wrote “Rachel Getting Married,” on a screenplay. “Up in the Air” opens...
Amherst Bulletin, November 12, 2009
...the last 20 years, but at the moment I'm hard-pressed to remember what it is. I liked Joyce Maynard's "Labor Day" and Sebastian Stuart's "The Hour Between," Anita Shreve's "A Change in Altitude," Philip Roth's "Indignation," and Elizabeth Strout's "Olive...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, October 28, 2009
...recent issue of The Wall Street Journal) Anna Quindlen, Laura Lippman, Nora Ephron, Mary Kay Andrews, Judy Blume, Joyce Maynard and Nancy Pearl. The Betsy-Tacy books were written in the 1940s and '50s and chronicle the life of one Betsy Warrington Ray,...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, October 26, 2009
...recent issue of The Wall Street Journal) Anna Quindlen, Laura Lippman, Nora Ephron, Mary Kay Andrews, Judy Blume, Joyce Maynard and Nancy Pearl. The Betsy-Tacy books were written in the 1940s and '50s and chronicle the life of one Betsy Warrington Ray,...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, October 23, 2009
...recent issue of The Wall Street Journal) Anna Quindlen, Laura Lippman, Nora Ephron, Mary Kay Andrews, Judy Blume, Joyce Maynard and Nancy Pearl. The Betsy-Tacy books were written in the 1940s and '50s and chronicle the life of one Betsy Warrington Ray,...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, October 23, 2009
...recent issue of The Wall Street Journal) Anna Quindlen, Laura Lippman, Nora Ephron, Mary Kay Andrews, Judy Blume, Joyce Maynard and Nancy Pearl. The Betsy-Tacy books were written in the 1940s and '50s and chronicle the life of one Betsy Warrington Ray,...
New Canaan Advertiser, October 4, 2009
...Joyce Maynard, author of ?Labor Day? was featured at the New Canaan Library?s Second Annual Literary Luncheon at the Country Club of New Canaan, attended by nearly 200 readers, Thursday...
Street Insider, October 1, 2009
...Philip Pearlstein, Kay WalkingStick, Zac Posen, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Otterness, Robert Indiana, Sylvia Plath, John Lithgow, and Joyce Maynard, many of whom were able to earn money for college because of the Awards. Joining Scholastic in supporting the...
NECN.com, September 21, 2009
...weekend, is now in bookstores. There is already talk of a movie version of "Labor Day." Author Joyce Maynard joins NECN for a discussion. [2 weeks ago]...
Boston Globe, September 20, 2009
...annual literary gathering, now in its fifth year, celebrates Vermont history and fine writing from all over. Novelist Joyce Maynard, biographer Blake Bailey, and music critic Anthony DeCurtis are on the schedule. Coming out The Lost Art of Gratitude,...
Boston Globe, September 20, 2009
...David Allen Sibley signs The Sibley Guide to Trees, 3 p.m., Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St. MONDAY: Joyce Maynard reads from Labor Day, 7 p.m., Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge . . . Nicholson Baker reads from The Anthologist, 7 p.m., Harvard...
Boston Globe, September 20, 2009
...annual literary gathering, now in its fifth year, celebrates Vermont history and fine writing from all over. Novelist Joyce Maynard, biographer Blake Bailey, and music critic Anthony DeCurtis are on the schedule. Coming out...
Seven Days Vermont, September 16, 2009
...State of the Arts TAGS: books, state of the arts Joyce Maynard Info: Joyce Maynard, Saturday, September 26, 2:30-3:30 p.m. at the Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. Rita Dove, Friday, September 25, 8 p...
New Canaan Advertiser, September 6, 2009
...New Canaan Library Assistant Director Cynde Bloom Lahey will lead a discussion on Joyce Maynard?s memoir, ?At Home in the World,? at The Friends of the Library Lunch Bunch Book Group at noon Wednesday, September 9. Lunch will be provided by the...
Cape Cod Online, September 6, 2009
...Joyce Maynard, author of ?Labor Day.? It's the long Labor Day weekend in Holton Mills, N.H., in the mid-1980s, and 13-year-old Henry and his mother, Adele, have nothing special...
KSDK NewsChannel 5, September 1, 2009
...of movies out of this guy before he's done." Reitman is now adapting a script for Joyce Maynard's new novel, Labor Day, and he's planning a film from a screenplay by Jenny Lumet, who wrote last year's Rachel Getting Married. "The real life-changer for...
Centre Daily Times, August 20, 2009
...-'Labor Day,' by Joyce Maynard; William Morrow (244pages, $24.99) http://www.newsday.com/ Here's the premise: A battered, bleeding murderer on the lam from prison meets a 13-year-old boy and his reclusive...
Concord Monitor, August 17, 2009
...at the heartstrings Font size: Letter to editor It's easy to see why many readers will like Joyce Maynard's latest book, Labor Day. It tugs at the heartstrings. Its plot breezes along with the ease of summer. Its characters steal a sex break every few...
Concord Monitor, August 17, 2009
...columnist August 16, 009 - 1:00 am It's easy to see why many readers will like Joyce Maynard's latest book, Labor Day. It tugs at the heartstrings. Its plot breezes along with the ease of summer. Its characters steal a sex break every few pages, even...
Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 16, 2009
...ess Writer "Labor Day" (William Morrow. 244 pages. $24.99), by Joyce Maynard. It's the long Labor Day weekend in Holton Mills, N.H., in the mid-1980s, and 13-year-old Henry and his mother, Adele, have nothing special planned. That's not...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 2009
...Joyce Maynard knows her way around domestic life, its coziness and craziness. She knows baby love and baby lust, child-raising and pie-making, squirrelly teenage boys and snooty young girls, passion and...
Wicked Local Milford, August 2, 2009
...decides to go shopping at their local Pricemart. That's when everything changes for Adele and Henry in Joyce Maynard's "Labor Day," a story so compelling, many readers will finish it in one sitting. And then read it again. Henry, a budding adolescent, is...
Tutu's Two Cents, July 8, 2010
...murder past and present that connects and devastates three separate families. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Then there's Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard (Pub date Aug 24). I was so impressed with her previous book Labor Day ,...
The Playlist, June 23, 2010
...football pic " Whispers in Bedlam ," but the most likely candidate seems to be an adaptation of Joyce Maynard 's novel " Labor Day ." We're sure that Reitman will confirm his next project in the next few months; he's kept to a fairly clockwork...
FirstShowing.net, June 23, 2010
...a great project for Reitman to direct, he's already got a full slate, including an adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel Labor Day , which Reitman already confirmed previously will be his next project. And let's not forget other projects like the...
Collider» – Collider.com, June 23, 2010
...book. Reitman told USA Today back in September 2009 that his next project would be an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel, Labor Day (although THR says he hasn’t committed to direct a new movie yet). He’s also got a hockey movie ( Whispers in...
Collider» – Collider.com, June 23, 2010
...book. Reitman told USA Today back in September 2009 that his next project would be an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel, Labor Day (although THR says he hasn’t committed to direct a new movie yet). He’s also got a hockey movie ( Whispers in...
TLC Book Tours, June 8, 2010
...baseball, the secret to perfect peach pie, and the importance of placing others–especially those you love–above yourself. About Joyce Maynard Joyce Maynard first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story...
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories, March 25, 2010
...brokers who tell you these things?”. (Martha, wisely, isn’t commenting on the book.) The genre also includes Joyce Maynard’s At Home in the World , a memoir of her 10-month affair as a 19-year-old with the reclusive and controlling 50-something...
@ Home in the World, February 16, 2010
...to come bubbling to the surface. In amongst the hero worship were several, often disparaging, references to one Joyce Maynard, of whom I had never heard. A little research showed her to be the author of a book with the same name as this blog . I'll...
Work-in-Progress, February 9, 2010
...s personal life, particularly any revelation of unsavory truths about one of America's most revered authors. Both Joyce Maynard and Salinger's daughter Margaret were vilified for violating the great man's privacy when they wrote about their own...
EXIT ONLY by TERRY MAROTTA, February 2, 2010
...the other day when I whined about how I have not met with the kind of commercial success Joyce Maynard has seen. I am reading that post this morning and see that I made it also sound like I was some unselfish Mother Teresa who, rather than crassly selling...
So Many Books, So Little Time, February 1, 2010
...s what came in my mailbox this week MONDAY Accidentally On Purpose- Mary F. Pols--Book Ring Labor Day- Joyce Maynard --Book Ring Fire Me- Libby Malin—author sent for a contest win from A Novel Menagerie Beautiful Dead: Jonas- Eden Maguire--for...
Quill & Quire, February 1, 2010
...from the Laughing Man. But Salinger, so the legend goes, turned his back not on writing but publishing. Joyce Maynard who lived with Salinger after his self-imposed literary exile claims he’s completed at least two full novels. Margaret Salinger, his...
alita.reads., January 31, 2010
...final thoughts Seven Up ( Stephanie Plum ) by Janet Evanovich - final thoughts – Soundtrack song Labour Day by Joyce Maynard – final thoughts – Soundtrack song Outlander ( Outlander ) by Diana Gabaldon – final thoughts (coming) –...
Vitkun Brands, January 31, 2010
...unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home. A year earlier, author and former Salinger girlfriend Joyce Maynard had written that Salinger used to write daily and had at least two novels stored away. So yea. Salinger = Tupac. (Which is a pretty...
Books Blog, January 30, 2010
...to give interviews, and his veil of secrecy has really only been punctured twice, by a long-ago lover, Joyce Maynard in "At Home in the World: a Memoir" (Picador, 1998) and his daughter, Margaret Salinger in "Dream Catcher: a Memoir" (Washington Square...
Books Blog, January 30, 2010
...to give interviews, and his veil of secrecy has really only been punctured twice, by a long-ago lover, Joyce Maynard in "At Home in the World: a Memoir" (Picador, 1998) and his daughter, Margaret Salinger in "Dream Catcher: a Memoir" (Washington Square...
Books Blog, January 30, 2010
...to give interviews, and his veil of secrecy has really only been punctured twice, by a long-ago lover, Joyce Maynard in "At Home in the World: a Memoir" (Picador, 1998) and his daughter, Margaret Salinger in "Dream Catcher: a Memoir" (Washington Square...
Starcasm, January 30, 2010
...Will we ever get to read what he’s been writing all these years? According to his ex-girlfriend Joyce Maynard he wrote religiously every day, and in 1999 he told his neighbor Jerry Burt that he had 15 unpublished books locked away in a safe. His...
Dandelion Ink, January 29, 2010
...unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home. A year earlier, author and former Salinger girlfriend Joyce Maynard had written that Salinger used to write daily and had at least two novels stored away.” According to the author himself ...
petra michelle, January 29, 2010
...Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish Hapworth 16, 1924 in book...
Sue Young Homeopathy, January 29, 2010
...Salinger signed up for a six month period of “Denazification” duty in Germany for the CIC. In 1998, Joyce Maynard , a New York Times columnist, wrote a book about her year long affair with Salinger At Home in the World: a memoir , where she also...
MastiFunda.com, January 29, 2010
...Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish “Hapworth 16, 1924″ in...
Info Blog, January 29, 2010
...release of Catcher in the Rye. He preferred to preserve his privacy. Salinger formed a relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, who was a writer in Seventeen magazine. Salinger was already 53-years-old that time. J.D. Salinger , at 91, died at his...
♆ The Macho Response ♆, January 28, 2010
..."[Third "wife", Joyce] Maynard described Salinger, who had been influenced by Zen Buddhism and Hinduism, as consumed with yoga, meditation, and a strict diet of whole grains and vegetables. She also said he could be 'moody and cranky' and critical of her...
lancerlord, January 28, 2010
...J.D. Salinger passes ... - "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger dies at 91 Also read " Joyce Maynard In Spotlight With J.D. Salinger's Death " Joyce Maynard's memoir "At Home In The World" in 1998 detailed her eight-month affair with Salinger in the...
POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing, January 28, 2010
...Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish ‘Hapworth 16,...
Whizbangwoman's Blog, January 28, 2010
... I wonder if I would like it now as much as I liked it as a teenager. Joyce Maynard wrote about him in her memoir. It wasn’t very complimentary, but it was her truth, I believe. I always felt like he was somewhat ruled by...
Lesley's Book Nook, January 21, 2010
...Pat Conroy 27. House and Home by Kathleen McCleary 28. Resilence by Elizabeth Edwards 29. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard 30. Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee 31. Abandoned by Cody McFadyen 32. The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel 33....
Presenting Lenore, January 1, 2010
...Niffenegger Secret Son by Laila Lalami Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Swimming by Nicola Keegan Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns by Elizabeth...
All About {n}, December 31, 2009
...Maggie Stiefvater The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams How it Ends - Laura Wiess Labor Day - Joyce Maynard Willow - Julia Hoban The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb The Everafter -...
Reading Group Guides Blog, December 24, 2009
...of our most memorable posts of the year, from Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout's own prize-winning favorites to Joyce Maynard's true-life tale about how a single book club meeting changed her life. Enjoy the holidays. We'll be back on January 4th! Annie...
Bibliophile By the Sea, December 20, 2009
...The Christmas Shoes ; Donna Van Liere Joy Comes in the Morning ; Rosen Island Walkers ; Bemrose The Usual Rules ; Joyce Maynard A Redbird Christmas ; Fannie Flagg 2003 - Top 10 Fiction Books out of 118 Read Life of Pi ; Martel Crow Lake ; Maryann Lawson...
Tales of whimsy..., December 8, 2009
...of Ruined . I have 2 up for grabs. Click here to read my review of Labor Day by Joyce Maynard at my sister blog The Suite Sweet. Visit Wrighty's Reads for a chance to win Dear John by Nicholas Sparks...
"Thoughts of Joy...", December 6, 2009
...Author: Joyce Maynard Genre: Fiction, Standalone Published: 2009 Personal Rating: 4/5 (very good) Yearly Count: 139 As an adult, Henry tells his story beginning at the age of 13. Henry lives with...
Aimless musings, December 1, 2009
...Joyce Maynard’s thoughts about book clubs: What I love about book clubs is the way they get us past the small talk and open up discussion about the things that...
Linus's Blanket, November 18, 2009
...Blanket Literary Feasts: Heaven to Betsy, by Maud Hart Lovelace Related posts This Just In! Labor Day, by Joyce Maynard (24) The Bookmaker, by Michael J. Agovino (4) Shelf Discovery Challenge (12) Progress: Notes From A Reading Life ~ October 20...
Presenting Lenore, November 4, 2009
...Fair 2008 Swimming by Nicola Keegan - requested as part of the Amazon Vine program Labor Day by Joyce Maynard - requested as part of the Amazon Vine program Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver -provided by publisher per my request Fire by Kristin Cashore -...
Everyday I Write the Book, October 28, 2009
...writers write about their family members, either outright, or through characters in novels. A few months ago, author Joyce Maynard wrote an essay that was published in The New York Times'' "Modern Love" column about a time many years ago when she snooped...
Linus's Blanket, October 28, 2009
...I Blog! Highlights: Trish, Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’? Share/Save Related posts This Just In! Labor Day, by Joyce Maynard (19) The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer (0) That’s How I Blog! (1) Introducing: That’s How I...
Linus's Blanket, October 28, 2009
...out my page on That’s How I Blog! Share/Save Related posts This Just In! Labor Day, by Joyce Maynard (19) The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer (0) That’s How I Blog! (1) Introducing: That’s How I Blog! (47...
Linus's Blanket, October 23, 2009
...Ball Early: Or My Profile on The Olive Reader Share/Save Related posts This Just In! Labor Day, by Joyce Maynard (23) The Bookmaker, by Michael J. Agovino (4) Shelf Discovery Challenge (12) Progress: Notes From A Reading Life ~ October 20...
Linus's Blanket, October 20, 2009
...Reading Life ~ October 20 Share/Save Related posts Shelf Discovery Challenge (12) This Just In! Labor Day, by Joyce Maynard (23) The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer (1) The Bookmaker, by Michael J. Agovino (4) Shimmer, by Eric...
Donna Alward, October 16, 2009
...book 60 for the year yesterday and here's the review I posted on eharlequin: Labor Day - Joyce Maynard I got this book in DC and grabbed it last week to read. It's not a long or hard read, and it's compelling, though very different from...
Book Club Girl, October 4, 2009
...and Meg Cabot (not to mention Anna Quindlen, Laura Lippman, Mary Kay Andrews, Judy Blume, Nancy Pearl and Joyce Maynard) CAN'T be wrong -- go forth and READ THEM!...
Presenting Lenore, October 3, 2009
...Mantchev I read 9 adult novels: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Swimming by Nicola Keegan Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns by Elizabeth Leiknes...
Book Club Girl, August 3, 2009
...Just on sale, Joyce Maynard's new novel Labor Day is one that I can just see my book group arguing over for a long time. The premise of this slender novel? Read on...
