Author Guest Posts

Through my Immigrant Stories Challenge, I have been fortunate to have a number of authors guest post on the blog. Below is a round-up of all the guest posts organized alphabetically by author.

 Chiafolo, Rosanna 
Kerrigan, Kate
Greaney, Aine 
Schoenewaldt, Pamela
Sreenivasan, Jyotsna
Wan, Helen 
Zobair, Jennifer

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About Me

I love, love, love to read and really enjoy a good dialogue about what I am reading. I often discuss books with other bookish friends or through a few books clubs in which I participate but I thought blogging would give me yet another outlet for my musings on what I have read or am wanting to read.

Other pertinent facts . . . I am in my 30's, live in NYC and work in a decidedly un-literary field (Pharma R&D). I have always enjoyed reading - I rarely remember being anywhere as a child without a book in tow. I pursued science in college but added English Lit as a second major so I could get my book fix.

What do I read/review?

• Genres: I have varied tastes in books - I like contemporary fiction, women's fiction (that includes chick lit!), non-fiction (especially memoirs), travelogues and short stories. I am especially interested in Irish authors and books set in Ireland.

• Formats: Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook. I don't currently have an e-reader so I do not read/review in ebook format

• What Do I Not Review? Sci-Fi, Romance (Bodice-Rippers)
  

Books Reviewed

By Author Alphabetically:
Abbott, Megan: The End of Everything
Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger
Aktar, Ayad: American Dervish
Anam, Tahmina: The Good Muslim
Alison, Rosie: The Very Thought of You
Anand, Geeta: The Cure
Baggett, Jennifer; Pressner, Amanda;Corbett, Holly: The Lost Girls
Bantwal, Shobhan: The Forbidden Daughter
Bee, Samanta: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Binchy, Maeve: A Week in Winter
Binchy, Maeve: Heart and Soul
Binchy, Maeve: Whitethorn Woods
Blackstone, Stella: My Granny Went To Market
Blake, Sarah: The Postmistress
Boncompagni, Tatiana: The Hedge Fund Wives
Brody, Jessica: Love Under Cover
Brooks, Geraldine: Nine Parts of Desire
Bryson, Bill: In A Sunburned Country
Bryson, Bill: Notes From A Small Island
Brzezinski, Mika: Knowing Your Value
Cabot, Meg: Queen of Babble in the Big City
Cano-Murillo, Kathy: Waking Up in the Land of Glitter
Carey, Alice: I'll Know It When I See It
Chamberlain, Diane: The Good Father
Chamberlain, Diane: The Midwive's Confession
Chamberlain, Diane: The Lies We Told
Chiofalo, Rosanna: Bella Fortuna
Cleave, Chris: Gold
Cleave, Chris: Little Bee
Coleman, Rowan: Home for Broken Hearts 
Cook, Claire: Life's a Beach
Cook, Claire: Wallflower in Bloom
David, Anna: Falling for Me
Delaney, Frank: Shannon
Delaney, Frank: Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show
Dermansky, Marcy: Bad Marie
Desai, Kiran: Inheritance of Loss
Duffy, Erin: Bond Girl
Edwards, Elizabeth: Saving Graces
Enright, Anne: Yesterday's Weather
Evans, Harriet: I Remember You
Fallon, Siobhan: You Know When the Men Are Gone
Fei, Deanna: Thread of Sky
Fey, Tina: Bossypants
Ferris, Joshua: The Unnamed 
Fowler, Therese: Exposure
Foxworthy, Jeff:  Hide!
Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections
Giffin, Emily: Heart of the Matter
Gilman, Susan Jane: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya: The Secret Daughter 
Graver, Elizabeth: The End of the Point
Greaney, Aine: Dance Lessons
Green, Jane: Another Piece of My Heart
Green, Jane: Dune Road
Green, Jane: Promises to Keep
Grennan, Conor: Little Princes
Gross, Gwendolen: The Orphan Sister
Haigh, Jennifer: Faith
Halverson, Sere Prince: The Underside of Joy
Hildebrand, Elin: A Summer Affair
Higgins, Kristan: My One and Only 
Higgins, Kristan: Somebody to Love
Hoffman, Beth: Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt
Holton, Cathy: The Summer in the South
Hummer, Jennifer Gooch: Girl, Unmoored
Jacobs, Kate: Knit the Season
Jio, Sarah: The Bungalow
Johnson, Maureen: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Kaplan, Hester: The Tell
Kerrigan, Kate: Ellis Island
Kerrigan, Kate: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (written as Morag Prunty)
Keyes, Marian: Watermelon
Keyes, Marian: Anybody Out There?
Kidder, Tracy: Mountains From Mountains 
Kindred, Katherine Anne: An Accidental Mother
Kinsella, Sophie: I've Got Your Number
Kinsella, Sophie: Twenties Girl
Kircher, Kim: The Next 15 Minutes
Kuhn, William: Mrs Queen Takes the Train
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation
Lacey, Robert: The Queen: A Life in Brief
Lancaster, Jen: Bitter is the New Black
Leary, Ann: The Good House
Lee, Janice Y.K.: The Piano Teacher
Ling, Laura and Lisa: Somewhere Inside 
Lorello, Elisa: Faking it
Lyall, Sarah: The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Lynch, Jane: Happy Accidents
Macy, Caitlin: Spoiled
Mauro, Nancy: New World Monkeys
McHenry, Jael: The Kitchen Daughter
McInerney, Monica: Lola's Secret
McCafferty, Jean: First Your Try Everything
McKeon, Belinda: Solace
McMillan, Claire: Gilded Age
McNamara, Mary: The Starlet
McPartlin, Anna: Alexandra, Gone
Meier, Diane: Season of Second Chances
Miller, Jennifer: The Year of the Gadfly
Monninger, Joseph: Eternal on Water
Mortenson, Greg: Three Cups of Tea
Mukherjee, Bharati: Miss New India
Nair, Kamala: The Girl in the Garden
Nair, Preethi: Colour of Love
Nicholls, David: One Day 
Noble, Elizabeth: The Girl Next Door
Noble, Elizabeth: The Reading Group
O'Carroll, Brendan: Agnes Browne Trilogy (The Mammy, The Chissellers, The Granny)
O'Connor McNees: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott 
Patton, Lisa: Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'Easter
Petersen, Barry: Jan's Story 
Phan, Aimee: The Reeducuation of Cherry Truong
Pinneo, Sarah: Julia's Child
Poole, Eric: Where's My Wand?
Rainville, Jennifer: Trance of Insignificance
Rave, Robert: Waxed
Reynolds, Jean Page: Leaving Before It's Over
Rivenbark, Celia: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
Rivenbark, Celia: You Don't Sweat Much For a Fat Girl
Rockland, Kate: 150 Pounds
Sachs, Dana: The Secret of Nightingale Palace
Schine, Cathleen: The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Schoenberger, Susan: A Watershed Year 
Schoenewaldt, Patricia: When We Were Strangers
Scotch, Allison Winn: The Song Remains the Same
Sedaris, David: Live for Your Listening Pleasure
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shapiro, Dani: Devotion
Shukert, Rachel: Everything Is Going To Be Great
Sipher, Devan: The Wedding Beat
Smith, Alexander McCall: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Sohn, Amy: Prospect Park West
Sreenivasan, Jyotsna: And Laughter Fell From the Sky
Suri, Manil: Age of Shiva
Taylor, Patrick: An Irish Country Christmas
Thomason, Dustin: 12:21
Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn
Toibin, Colm: The Master
Toibin, Colm: Blackwater Lightship
Trigiani, Adriana: Brava Valentine
Trigiani, Adriana: Very Valentine
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Daughter
Tropper, Jonathan: This Is Where I Leave You
Tyler, Anne: Digging to America
Ung, Luong: Lucky Child
Urmigar, Thrity: The Space Between Us
Urmigar, Thrity: The World We Found
Walker, Karen Thompson: The Age of Miracles
Walter, Jess: The Financial Lives of Poets
Warner, Priscilla: Learning to Breathe
Wax, Wendy: Magnolia Wednesdays
Weiner, Eric: Geography of Bliss
Wickham, Madeleine: 40 Love
Williams, Niall and Breen, Christine: O Come Ye Back to Ireland
Williams, Niall and Breen, Christine: When Summer is in the Meadow

By Genre:

Non-Fiction
Anand, Geeta: The Cure
Baggett, Jennifer; Pressner, Amanda;Corbett, Holly: The Lost Girls
Bee, Samanta: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Brooks, Geraldine: Nine Parts of Desire
Bryson, Bill: In A Sunburned Country
Bryson, Bill: Notes From A Small Island
Brzezinski, Mika: Knowing Your Value 
Carey, Alice: I'll Know It When I See It
David, Anna: Falling For Me
Fey, Tina: Bossypants
Gilman, Susan Jane: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Grennan, Conor: Little Princes

Kidder, Tracy: Mountains From Mountains 

Kindred, Katherine Anne: An Accidental Mother
Kircher, Kim: The Next 15 Minutes
Lacey, Robert: The Queen: A Life in Brief
Lancaster, Jen: Bitter is the New Black
Ling, Laura and Lisa: Somewhere Inside
Lyall, Sarah: The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Lynch, Jane: Happy Accidents
Mortenson, Greg: Three Cups of Tea
Petersen, Barry: Jan's Story
Poole, Eric: Where's My Wand? 
Rivenbark, Celia: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
Rivenbark, Celia: You Don't Sweat Much For a Fat Girl
Sedaris, David: Live for Your Listening Pleasure
Shapiro, Dani: Devotion
Shukert, Rachel: Everything Is Going To Be Great
Ung, Luong: Lucky Child
Warner, Priscilla: Learning To Breathe
Weiner, Eric: Geography of Bliss
Williams, Niall and Breen, Christine: When Summer is in the Meadow

Audiobooks:
Aktar, Ayad: American Dervish
Binchy, Maeve: Whitethorn Woods
Blake, Sarah: The Postmistress
Bryson, Bill: In A Sunburned Country
Bryson, Bill: Notes From A Small Island
Brzezinski, Mika: Knowing Your Value 
Delaney, Frank: Shannon
Ferris, Joshua: The Unnamed 
Fey, Tina: Bossypants
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation
Lee, Janice Y.K.: The Piano Teacher
Lynch, Jane: Happy Accidents
Mukherjee, Bharati: Miss New India
Noble, Elizabeth: The Girl Next Door
Rivenbark, Celia: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
Sedaris, David: Live for Your Listening Pleasure
Smith, Alexander McCall: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Taylor, Patrick: An Irish Country Christmas
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Daughter
Tyler, Anne: Digging to America
Wickham, Madeleine: 40 Love

Irish Authors/Books Set in Ireland
Binchy, Maeve: A Week in Winter
Binchy, Maeve: Heart and Soul
Binchy, Maeve: Whitethorn Woods
Carey, Alice: I'll Know It When I See It
Delaney, Frank: Shannon
Delaney, Frank: Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show
Enright, Anne: Yesterday's Weather
Greaney, Aine: Dance Lessons
Kerrigan, Kate: Ellis Island 
Kerrigan, Kate: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (written as Morag Prunty)
Keyes, Marian: Watermelon
Keyes, Marian: Anybody Out There?
McKeon, Belinda: Solace
McPartlin, Anna: Alexandra, Gone
O'Carroll, Brendan: Agnes Browne Trilogy (The Mammy, The Chissellers, The Granny)
Taylor, Patrick: An Irish Country Christmas
Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn
Toibin, Colm: The Master
Toibin, Colm: Blackwater Lightship
Williams, Niall and Breen, Christine: O Come Ye Back to Ireland
Williams, Niall and Breen, Christine: When Summer is in the Meadow

Short Story Collections
Enright, Anne: Yesterday's Weather
Fallon, Siobhan: You Know When the Men Are Gone 
Macy, Caitlin: Spoiled

Children's
Blackstone, Stella: My Granny Went To Market 

Foxworthy, Jeff:  Hide! 
Laminack, Lester: Three Hens and a Peacock 
Foxworthy, Jeff:  Hide!