
Welcome to The Sunday Salon! It's a special week on Chick with Books because it's our Blogoversary week! 4 Years ago on February 18th, I created Chick with Books Blog to share my love of reading with "the world" or whoever would be so kind to stop by and take a peek at what I posted. I've met so many wonderful bloggers, readers, authors, publishers, writers, and other bookish people! Thank you to everyone who has stopped by, added a comment, answered my questions about blogging (and there were plenty), read my blog and helped Chick with Books to grow. Thank you to all the publishers and writers who have shared books with me, so that I may share them with others! Thank you to everyone for making it so much fun to talk about books!
So, what do we do with a Blogoversary?! Well, we celebrate! This week I'll be giving away some great bookish things to celebrate, so come back starting Monday to enter the Blogoversary Giveaways!
Now for some Books that are all the rage this week…

Ever since reading Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon I have been a fan. I loved that book and enjoy Jennifer's writing. She's a writer who knows how to write a great plot twist and I'm sure we can look forward to a great twist or two in Winter People. Published by Doubleday, it's available now from your favorite bookstore and it's on my wish list!

Laura Lippman is always a great choice when you're in the mood for a great mystery, and After I'm Gone has gotten great press. It would have been on my wish list, but thanks to the nice people at William Morris it is on my nightstand and waiting for me to crack the spine this weekend!
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead… Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's masterpiece--the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure--and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.
This book has gotten so much buzz this week I just had mention it. I am so curious about it too - will Rebecca Mead's writing live up to all the talk? And in order to really appreciate Rebecca's love letter to Middlemarch, do we need to read the classic by George Elliot first? I've never read Middlemarch and so I just downloaded a copy on the nook. I'm putting My Life in Middlemarch down as a TBR at some point. If you want to read Middlemarch by George Elliot, which is said to be "the ultimate piece of literature", you can download it from Gutenberg.org.
How was your reading week? Did you find any must read books?! I hope you found something good to read here today! And I hope you'll stop by all next week to see what great giveaways I've got planned for my 4 year Blogoversay!
Happy reading… Suzanne
18 comments:
The Winter People looks like a suspenseful novel. After I'm Gone was a good plot, but I had to get used to her writing!
Enjoy the reading week.
Harvee
Book Dilettante
Congrats on the blogiversary! Maybe because we have had so much snow of late, the cover of The Winter People gives me the chills!
Have a good week!
Happy blogiversary! 4 years is quite an accomplishment!
My Life in Middlemarch has received a lot of buzz. I haven't read Middlemarch yet, so I'm going to wait on reading Mead's book.
Happy blogiversary! :-)
Happy Blogiversary!! I like the sound of After I'm Gone! I'll have to add that to the list :)
Happy blog birthday - it is mine as well. Always a good time to reflect on the fun things we've created.
Happy blogoversary. Four years in blog years is really great, in this day and age with all the competition from Facebook and other social media, I think. Glad you're still here.
Hi Harvee,
I do have to adapt between different types of genres, and that goes for when I read a mystery these days. It's a different kind of writing. That said, I'm glad you thought Laura Lippman's book had a good plot, because I really am looking forward to reading it.
Hi Booksnyc,
Yes, the cover is too much of what we're getting in the Northeast! Creepy ghost story though! Thanks for the congrats! And remember to stop by next week for the giveaways!
Thanks Bermudaonion! I'm amazed that 4 years has come and gone.
Thanks Vasilly!
You have to come by for the blogoversary giveaways next week to help me celebrate!
Hi Laura!
Thank you and thanks for stopping by! You get an invite too to the Blogoversary giveaways!
Hi Erin! Thank you! Congrats on your Blogoversary and your Birthday! Stop by for the giveaways and help me celebrate!
Hi Bryan and thank you! It is amazing how many blogs fall off the grid, but I'm happy to say that I've survived and had a lot of fun!
Happy Blogoversary! I enjoyed the Laura Lippman book...and Winter People has captured my interest.
Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.
Happy Blogoversary! Have a fun week!
Happy Blogaversary!!!! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Happy bloggiversary Suzanne! Four years is a great accomplishment. Middlemarch is a long one and bit of work but worth it. Hope you enjoy these books! I keep seeing The Winter People around. Happy Monday!
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