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Book Review: Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn Blog Tour & Giveaway

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Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn is a story about Holly Frick, a thirties-something professional searching for what she really wants out of her life and being totally mystified by events in people’s lives around her along with her own. The beginning of the book finds her newly divorced, not of her own choosing either, and with a career that’s going downhill in a big hurry.

So Holly decides that she’s just going to live life and not worry about the consequences and gets herself a young boyfriend. The kind of boyfriend you just keep around for a good time with no strings attached. In the meantime, her supposedly happily married friend Amanda is having an affair; even worse with a man Holly seems attracted to. Her other best friend Betsy is having some big issues with getting older. She’s wondering where the time went and why she still can’t seem to find the love she yearns for. It could be she keeps looking for it in all the wrong places. In among the wreckage of friends is Leonard; all I can say about him is he’s a total mess. Then there’s Spence, an old boyfriend. Holly has published a book and it seems to be based on her relationship with him and all that was wrong with him. Granted he was a jerk, still is, but he’s trying really hard to build a new relationship.

This is a story of unhappy people really, all looking for happiness. Holly being my favorite character is the one I’ll talk about. She tries by first indulging herself in a much younger man and then in an attempt at a real relationship which unfortunately backfires on her. The best thing she did was to adopt Chester, a dog who was sick with a brain tumor. She takes care of him and learns what love really is—unconditional and just plain ‘right’. Chester teaches her a few lessons along the way so that by the end of the story Holly is learning to just live her own way and to find happiness maybe in the smaller things.

I’ve got a couple of quotes to share, one funny and one serious that I liked…let’s do funny first…

  • ‘”Hold on a sec,” Holly said to her. “Okay. Listen to me. I don’t want to go back into that dressing room and take off my boots and my pants and start putting on jeans only to discover that the ones you brought me are all too tight, and then when I ask for the next size up, be informed that they’re the biggest size you carry. I can’t take that today. Seriously, I’ll blow my head off. So look at me, look at my ass, look at my gut, take it all in, and then tell me honestly if you anticipate we’re going to have a problem.”‘ (pg 80)

  • ‘Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason – Holly was getting closer to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true. That idea of a person’s life being a tapestry, and it wasn’t until late in the day that you could see all of the threads linking one part to another, all of the strange and random connections, how everyone impacts each other in seemingly small but important ways.’ (pg 269)

All in all I enjoyed the book, but it was just ok for me. I enjoyed the writing style of Sarah Dunn but I did find that there was unecessary swearing and hanky panky in the book–for me it didn’t really seem to fit the whole theme of the book. I think it could have been carried off without it just as well. That being said I would read another of Sarah Dunn’s books given the opportunity. I enjoy the carefree way she writes and the modern portrayal of her characters—they live in a real world with real problems.

Be sure to pop in and visit Sarah Dunn’s website here and you can purchase this book here in the US and here in Canada. Many thanks to Miriam at Hachette Book Group for the opportunity to participate in Sarah Dunn’s blog tour and read the book. For more participants in the blog tour, head over here and check them all out.

GIVEAWAY

I’ve got 3 copies of Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn to share with you. What do I need you to do…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you please.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do-thank you-and let me know so I can make sure you get the extras.
  • For 3 entries blog/tweet this giveaway to spread the word.

The giveaway is open to US & Canadian residents only (no PO boxes). I will draw for the winners on Tuesday, June 30. Good luck to all!

Please remember to check out my sidebars for all the other giveaways going on at my blog!

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The Host by Stephenie Meyer Blog Tour & Giveaway

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I was really excited to be asked to participate in the Blog Tour for The Host by Miriam at Hachette Book Group. I’m a fan of Stephenie Meyer, particularly her Twilight series so when The Host came out I rushed out and picked it up. So, what I’m going to do is reprint my review for you all from June 23, 2008…

This novel is Stephenie Meyer’s first novel for an adult audience. Her Twilight series for young adults has not only captured the teen audience but the adult one as well.

The Host is about a species invading earth and taking over the minds of their hosts-the humans. What happens is these little ‘souls’ are inserted into their hosts and the humans essentially are supposed to be gone although the soul has their memories.

Thus begins the story of Melanie-the human and the Wanderer-the soul. In this case Melanie is a strong personality and her mind is still there along with the Wanderer’s. The Wanderer goes crazy at first trying to get rid of her but eventually they find they like each other and develop a bond together. We meet a lot of characters in this book but my favorites are Melanie and the Wanderer. They turned out to be really likeable characters and often the dialogue between the two was quite amusing.

What I liked best is how when the Wanderer started having more and more of Melanie’s memories and feelings and they came to a sort of understanding with each other. Melanie wanted her to feel all of the feelings and emotions she did so that she would not be destroyed. Melanie wants to know where the people she left behind are and she and the Wanderer set out to do just that. From this point the story becomes a struggle for survival and learning to live in a different world and I found the last part of the book the most riveting. It was fast paced and emotional.

While this novel is considered science fiction, I don’t think that’s its only purpose. It’s really about relationships too, maybe even the importance of being lucky enough to be human instead of alien and then the question of who really knows what the future holds? I sure can’t imagine having to share my mind with anyone else. There’s enough chaos in there as it is but this type of book always sets me off thinking about the ‘what if’. I think it brings to light that anyone trying hard enough can learn to care with true human emotion.

This novel is entertaining. It was good, I wouldn’t say great, at least for me. I did find it a bit too long and I think had it been shortened up a bit it would have been better. I still favor the Twilight series probably because I enjoy vampires more than aliens but I know that this book will appeal to many out there. That being said, I’m sure Stephenie Meyer fans will love this book.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.

When Melanie, one of the few remaining “wild” humans, is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.

One of the most compelling writers of our time, Stephenie Meyer brings us a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the very essence of what it means to be human.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephenie Meyer’s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke-up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.

“Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write-something I hadn’t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.”

Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, then writing it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer’s House and eventually made its way to Little, Brown where everyone fell immediately in love with the gripping, star-crossed lovers theme.

Twilight was one of 2005’s most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list. Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an “ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults,” an Amazon.com “Best Book of the Decade … So Far”, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and has spent more than 25 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.

In 2007, Eclipse landed literally around the world and fans

Listen to the prologue here.
Listen to an excerpt here.
Download podcast here.
Listen to Chapter 4 here.

Here’s the next few stops on The Host Blog Tour that is running all month. Be sure to pop in and see what they have going on…

June 11 – Never Not Reading
June 13 – A Circle of Books
June 14 – A Journey of Books
June 15 – LoveVampires.com
June 16 – Reading with Monie

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GIVEAWAY

It just so happens that I have 3 copies of The Host to share with my readers courtesy of Miriam at Hachette Book Group. What do you have to do to snag one of those copies…

  • Comment here for 1 entry. Please leave me an email address!
  • For 2 entries, are you a fan of Stephenie Meyer? Have you already read the Twilight series-did you like it?
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway to spread the word.

The giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Good luck to you all!

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Book Review: Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton & A Giveaway

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I’ll just say right off that I really enjoyed Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton that I read for the May Blog Tour with Hachette Book Group! What a great book and totally perfect for that summer beach read that you may be still searching for! This is a light, fun and entertaining read with some romance thrown in and exactly what I like about chick-lit.

Mating Rituals of the North American WASP had me from this quote…

  • ‘The man didn’t move. “Excuse me,” she croaked louder, and tapped him again, then jiggled his arm. Nothing happened. I’m practically middle-aged, Peggy thought. She hadn’t done anything like this in her twenties, when it might have been excusable. She was thirty-four and mortified.’ (pg 5, Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton)

This came from Peggy who had innocently gone to Vegas for a bachelorette party for one of her friends and somehow ends up waking up to a strange man the next morning with absolutely no recollection of how she or they got there. She boots it out of there for home and her fiance only to get a phone call from the stranger who turns out to be Luke, a few days later. What does Luke have to say? Well it turns out that during their shared drunken stupor in Vegas they went and tied the knot—you got it, they went and got married!

Off to New Nineveh Peggy goes to get her marriage to Luke annulled. However, Luke’s Aunt Abby makes them an offer that if they stay married a year, they will inherit the Sedgwick Estate. Both say no way and agree to go their separate ways. Yet, when Peggy gets home she starts rethinking her decision. Luke comes from an old and important WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) family whose history goes back forever. That house could be worth millions and she could sure use the money since her shop that she runs with her best friend Bex, is on the verge of shutting down. She contacts Luke again and strikes up a deal with him to go ahead with this charade of a marriage.

What Peggy didn’t expect was to become so taken with New Ninevah and the people. Nor did she expect to become so attached to Aunt Abigail, a ninety-something spunky old lady or to be attracted to Luke. She’s kept very busy juggling New York and her life there during the week and then heading out on the weekends to spend it with Aunt Abby and Luke while trying to keep it all a secret from everyone, especially her fiancee. Then the unexpected, her fiance Brock finally proposes after seven years. What will Peggy do? Will she go ahead and marry Brock? Will she stay and try to make a life with Luke? Decisions, decisions.

I really liked the character of Peggy and Luke although at times I wanted to give them both a slap upside the head. There were so many instances where things could have been resolved had they just talked to each other but then there wouldn’t be a novel right. Aunt Abby was hilarious and I just loved her; she really brings a spark to this novel. So, yes this is a predictable story in classic chick-lit style but still it’s so worth the read. It grabbed my attention from the beginning all the way to when I turned the last page. I’d love to read more from Lauren Lipton.

AUTHOR INFO

Lauren Lipton is the author of two novels, It’s About Your Husband (2006) and Mating Rituals of the North American WASP (2009). She is also a freelance journalist who specializes in style, business and trend stories.

She is currently fashion, beauty and lifestyle editor at ForbesWoman magazine. She has also contributed features on society and media to the New York Times Sunday Styles section. A former Wall Street Journal staff writer, she reported on copycat brides who steal their friends’ wedding ideas, pajama parties for grown women, and luxury homes with his-and-hers garages.

Her work also has appeared in Conde Nast Portfolio, In Style Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Best Life, Glamour, Marie Claire, Fit Pregnancy and Working Mother, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She began her career at the Los Angeles Times.

Born in Providence, R.I., Lauren grew up in the North County of San Diego and in Los Gatos, Calif., before moving to Los Angeles. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and anthropology from Occidental College and a master’s degree in print journalism from the University of Southern California.

She lives with her family in New York City and in Litchfield County, Conn.

Check out this Q&A with Lauren here, Lauren’s website here, Lauren’s blog here and her Facebook fan page here.

GIVEAWAY

I think you should add it to your summer reading list and to help you do that I’m going to offer up a great giveaway to my readers with 3 copies up for grabs courtesy of Miriam at Hachette Book Group. To enter…

  • Leave me a comment for one entry with a way to contact you please!
  • For 2 entries comment on my review.
  • 3 entries if you blog or tweet the giveaway to spread the word.

The giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Monday, June 15, 2009. The books will be coming directly from the publisher. Good luck everyone!

Check out the other stops on this great Hachette Blog Tour here.

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Book Review Blog Tour: Follow Me by Joanna Scott

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Follow Me by Joanna Scott is a novel that follows the life of Sally Werner. It is all wrapped up by her granddaughter relating things she learned from her grandmother and from cassette tapes her father gave her.

It all begins in 1946 when sixteen year old Sally decides to accept a ride from her cousin Daniel on his motorcycle. It appears that Daniel has always had a crush on Sally and she flirts a little with him. Things get carried away and Sally is taken advantage of and later becomes pregnant. In a life altering decision, she decides to leave her baby son behind with her family who has all but shunned her anyway and leaves town for what she hopes will be a better life.

Sally wanders aimlessly for a while and finally comes upon two men in a field. She’s scared but that doesn’t stop her from calling them names. They leave and Sally sits down and sobs. Lucky for her, one of them comes back for her and takes her home to Georgie’s place which just turns out to be one of many places that Sally lands in her journey to find herself and build a life. Sally, for one reason or another always finds a reason to leave each place that she’s in and with each new town she arrives in, comes a new last name. It’s almost like she’s always trying to reinvent herself. In one such place Sally finds herself with a man who turns out to be nothing but trouble and she takes off. However, she’s left with a baby daughter on the way.

I found this novel hard to get into and it really wasn’t until midway through that I really felt the need to want to know what was going to happen to Sally. The premise of the story is very interesting to me and I’m not sure entirely sure what didn’t work for me. I think maybe it was just too drawn out for me. Joanna’s writing is very descriptive and she brings her characters to life quite vividly. I did actually like Sally as a character although she did a lot of things in such a way that I wouldn’t have but I admired her determination and drive. No matter what life threw her way, she got up, brushed off, and started over. Eventually though the past will always catch up to you as it did with Sally and she is unable to run anymore.
Follow Me by Joanna Scott is many things; a tale of heartbreak, tragedy, guilt and redemption. You will be drawn into Sally’s life and journey and you will want to know where she lands when it’s all over. You can buy this book here in the US and here in Canada. Thank you Miriam with Hachette for having me on this blog tour.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:

On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin’s invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally’s life, it’s an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only with her granddaughter and namesake, six decades later. But when young Sally’s father–a man she has never known–enters her life and offers another story altogether, she must uncover the truth of her grandmother’s secret history.

Boldly rendered and beautifully told, in FOLLOW ME Joanna Scott has crafted a paean to the American tradition of re-invention and a sweeping saga of timeless and tender storytelling.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Joanna Scott is the author of nine books, including The Manikin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Various Antidotes and Arrogance, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and the critically acclaimed Make Believe, Tourmaline, and Liberation. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Award, she lives with her family in upstate New York.
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Check out some of the other tour stops for Follow Me here, but here a few to whet your appetite:

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Guest Post with Mary Pat Kelly, Author of Galway Bay and Giveaway

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I’m very excited today to welcome Mary Pat Kelly, author of Galway Bay to Peeking Between the Pages. The Galway Bay Book Tour hosted by Hachette Book Group has just been great as is the book. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and you can see my review of it here. So, sit back and enjoy reading Mary Pat Kelly’s guest post on what An Honor it has been for her to write Galway Bay.

It was an honor to write Galway Bay because through the process I met my great-great-grandmother, who kept her children alive in the most horrific circumstances and got them to America. How did she do it?

Her family faced the Great Starvation in Ireland of 1845-1849. One million died. Yes, a natural calamity destroyed the potato, the people’s food, but it was the policies of the British government that allowed the famine to happen.

The more I learned, the more impossible it seemed that anyone from the devastated West of Ireland had survived. But they did. They escaped to America in one of the greatest rescues in human history. The victims saved each other. I was alive because of the courage of this woman, yet I had no notion of the story until I started to read Irish literature in the 1970s. And even then, the famine was a kind of black hole – not spoken about.

Certainly, growing up in Chicago, I had never realized that my ancestors had suffered. I was Irish and delighted to be, but I didn’t connect that with the actual country of Ireland, nor did most Irish-Americans. We’d created an identity and prospered but I don’t think we understood how much they had to leave behind – a language spoken for two thousand years, stories that informed their lives and shaped their consciousness and because of that surely had some influence on who we were – all gone or diminished.

I only started to touch the truth in conversations with my father’s cousin, a nun who lived to be a hundred and seven and who knew my great-great-grandmother Honora in the 1880s. For twenty-five years I’ve been researching here and in Ireland and trying to imagine this young couple, Honora and Michael Kelly – married at eighteen and nineteen years old – with three little children when the blight struck. I knew Honora had a sister and I know how sisters support each other. I learned Michael Kelly was a piper, evicted from his land. I saw that in spite of all the persecution, injustice and suffering, the Irish spirit was not broken.

“We wouldn’t die, and that annoyed them.” Yes, the English had been trying to rid Ireland of the Irish for centuries, but inexplicably they held on, nourished by songs and stories and a faith much deeper than the institutional Church. Only the Great Famine defeated them, and even then they escaped and triumphed – they built America, fought the civil war and survived.

Discovering the details of the Irish story brought me closer to every immigrant’s story, and all the strong women who have somehow survived and kept their children alive.

I’m grateful for this sense of connection.

Mary Pat, thanks so much for joining us today and sharing your thoughts with us. I look forward to reading more from you in the future.

If you missed it yesterday there was a wonderful little chat at Blog Talk Radio with Mary Pat and you can listen to that here.

Book Description and Author Information
Here at last is one Irish family’s epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family, inhabiting a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations. Selling both their catch–and their crops–to survive, these people subsist on the potato crop–their only staple food. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million other Irish refugees in one of the greatest rescues in human history: the Irish Emigration to America. Danger and hardship await them there. Honora and her unconventional sister Maire watch their seven sons as they transform Chicago from a frontier town to the “City of the Century”, fight the Civil War, and enlist in the cause of Ireland’s freedom. The Kelly clan is victorious. This heroic story sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today’s 44 million Irish Americans. In the author’s colorful and eclectic life, she has written and directed award-winning documentaries on Irish subjects, as well as the dramatic feature Proud. She’s been an associate producer on Good Morning America and Saturday Night Live, written books on Martin Scorsese, World War II, and Bosnia, and a novel based on her experiences as a former nun – Special Intentions. She is a frequent contributor to Irish America Magazine and has a PhD in English and Irish literature.
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Now, on to the giveaway. I have one hardback copy of Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly to share with one of my readers courtesy of Hachette Book Group. This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes). Here’s the rules:
  • For one entry leave me a comment with an email address. No email address, no entry.
  • Blog about this giveaway and spread the word for two entries.
  • Follow my blog and get three entries (if you’re already a follower, let me know-that counts too)

I will draw for the winner on March 29, 2009. Good luck everyone! Galway Bay really is a wonderful novel to relax with and savour.

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Book Review Blog Tour: Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly

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Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly is an amazing epic saga about an Irish family’s struggle to live in their own country of Ireland but find instead they must make the harrowing journey to America to start over. It’s a nice, big book-over 500 pages worth, one that you can really sink your teeth into. It grabbed me from the start although I found some slower parts in the beginning due to so much being introduced between people, places, legends and myths. However this novel captured me with all the forklore of ancient Ireland, their language and quite simply the story of the Irish during one of the most difficult times in history-The Great Starvation and all the while weaving in a wonderful tale of family remembrances of Mary Pat Kelly’s own family.

The story begins with Honora Keeley making plans to begin life as a nun. However, this is not to be. While walking along Galway Bay she sees a man, who appears to be drowning. He isn’t and he turns out to be none other than Michael Kelly, her future husband. Theirs is a love at first sight type of love story. From the beginning you feel the fierce love they share, the strong bond, the willingness to do anything for each other. They marry, although not without many hardships concerning Honora’s sister, Maire. Back in the day the landlords who the people leased their land from were allowed to take a bride price-meaning they could take the bride on her first night away from her husband. Honora’s sister saved her from that but unfortunately put herself into a very awful circumstance.

Honora and Michael make a home and are doing well. They build a home up on a hill overlooking Galway Bay with a big window just for Honora. They plant pratties-potatoes as all the community does-it is their only staple food as the government exports everything else. They will have food all winter or so they thought; unfortunately the blight hits Ireland hard and all the potatoes rot and are inedible. If this had happened for one year, families would have been able to survive. However, it continued on for four years and the government refused to help the people. People were starving and dying not only of starvation but of disease. Honora and Michael were devastated watching their children fading away to nothing. They vowed to each other that their children would live.

More tradegy hits the Kellys and Honora knows she must leave Ireland. She must do what she can for her family so she and Maire take their brood of children by ship to Chicago. America is a whole new world for them, one in which they aren’t easily accepted. Through pure strength of will though the two of them do succeed and do well in spite of everything. Their sons go to war, marry and have children of their own.

Mary Pat Kelly’s writing is wonderful. The research and family stories she put together for this novel amazing. Galway Bay spans six generations. I can’t help but admire having such a rich family history. Honora was, in fact, Mary’s great-great grandmother. This novel in turn made me laugh at times and cry at others. I was horrified by the hardships the family had in Ireland and elated at their victories in America. Mary Pat Kelly takes her readers so fully into the tale that you feel as though you are a part of it all-you made this journey with Honora and Maire and the kids to America. Again, this was a piece of history that I was unaware of and this novel has brought it to the forefront of my mind. As I write this I am watching a program on the The Great Famine on television. It was strange how it just happened to coincide with me finishing this novel. As I’m watching I am continually being reminded of the journey that Honora and Maire took and seeing the pictures and hearing the facts only makes it more scary to me. They were brave and amazing woman who single handedly made sure that there were generations of their family to come for a long time.

I would absolutely recommend this novel especially to those wanting to know more about the Irish-their faith, songs and stories and to those interested in learning a bit more about the struggle of the Irish during The Great Starvation. It’s almost impossible to encompass in a review all that this book holds. There is romance and history and above all, the enduring love of family-such a rich story so worth reading. I also have to mention the book cover itself which is absolutely beautiful. I would like to thank Miriam from Hachette for sending me this lovely book and having me participate in the blog tour for Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly.

Please join me tomorrow when Mary Pat Kelly visits Peeking Between the Pages with a guest post and a giveaway of Galway Bay.

There is also a Blog Talk Radio show happening today for Mary Pat Kelly’s book Galway Bay at 11 am ET. You can check that out and join in the conversation here.

  • You can visit Mary Pat Kelly’s website here.
  • You can visit Mary Pat Kelly’s blog here.
  • You can read an article by Mary Pat Kelly on what an honor it was for her to write Galway Bay here.
  • You can read a letter from Mary Pat Kelly on the research that went into the writing of Galway Bay here.
Finally, here is the list of participants in the Blog Tour for Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly. Be sure to visit and see what they have to say about the novel and Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!

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