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Frightful Friday: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! This week’s featured book is Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar … Continue reading
Posted in Frightful Friday, Paranormal Fiction, Review, YA
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Adventures in Parenting: Sharing the Love of Reading
Why yes, it’s been an unreal amount of time since the last time I posted an “Adventures in Parenting” post. Let’s just say that my parenting life has had so many adventures since the last post, I don’t even know … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Parenting
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Review: War and Watermelon by Rich Wallace
Reading level: Ages 9-12 (Jenn’s opinion: 12 & up) Hardcover: 184 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) Source: Publisher It’s the summer of 1969 (yes, Bryan Adam’s song definitely comes to mind). Twelve year old Brody is … Continue reading
Posted in Review, Viking, YA
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Review: The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (June 9, 2011) ISBN-10: 052595211X Source: Publisher A man wakes up, naked and cold, on a isolated beach. He doesn’t recall why he is there or how he got there. Actually, he remembers … Continue reading
Posted in Dutton, Mystery/Suspense, Penguin, Review, Thriller
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books to be finish this week. It is hosted by Sheila from … Continue reading
TSS: One More Page Books Really Knows How to Throw A Party!
Last Tuesday, One More Page Books welcomed Rebecca Rasmussen, author of The Bird Sisters, for a reading and signing. The weather was quite atrocious: we were in the midst of a thunderstorm. As always, I arrived early as to avoid … Continue reading
Posted in Author Events, One More Page Books, The Sunday Salon
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Frightful Friday: The Ridge by Michael Koryta
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! This week’s Frightful Friday selection is The Ridge by Michael … Continue reading
Review: The Beach Trees by Karen White
Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: NAL Trade; 1 edition (May 3, 2011) ISBN-10: 9780451233073 Source: Publisher When Julie was just twelve years old, her sister disappeared, never to be found. Her once perfect family started to crumble. Her mother became obsessed … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, NAL, Penguin, Review, Women's Fiction
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Review: Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (March 22, 2011) ISBN-10: 0061857521 Source: Publisher In the two years since her husband’s death in a climbing accident, computer security expert Diana Banks has become a bit of a recluse, holed … Continue reading
Posted in Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller, William Morrow
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Literary Road Trip: May Link Round Up!
The Literary Road Trip is a project in which bloggers are volunteering to showcase local authors. This showcase can be anything you want to make of it – book reviews, author interviews, giveaways – as long as you’re working with … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Road Trip
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