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Frightful Friday: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough: Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (January 14, 2014) … Continue reading
Review: What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062237845 Source: Publisher Olivia Reed didn’t have the most stable of childhoods. Her older sisters, twins, were stillborns who died a year before Olivia was born and are forever memorialized by … Continue reading
Posted in Harper Books, Literary Fiction, Review
Tagged bipolar disorder, forgiveness, guilt, mother-daughter relationships
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Mini-Review: Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines
Series: Ex Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (January 14, 2014) ISBN-10: 0804136610 Source: Publisher George Bailey is your average, everyday kind of guy. During the day, he works as a handyman at a local community college. His nights, however, … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway Books, Horror, Review, Science Fiction
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Book Club Discussion: Favorite Books of 2013
In addition to blogging, working full-time and raising a family, I am also the fiction book club leader at One More Page Books. Each January we have a unique way of celebrating the first meeting of the year. Held right … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club Discussion
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Review: The Kept by James Scott
Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062236733 Source: Publisher Set in 1867 at an isolated farm in upstate New York, Elspeth Howell, a midwife, returns home to find her husband and four of her children brutally murdered. … Continue reading
Posted in Harper Books, Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Review
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TSS: A Week in Review
Here’s to a new year full of fresh new starts and new beginnings! While I enjoyed all the time off, the busy travel season for work has started for me. While airplane time means more reading time, it’s quite exhausting … Continue reading
Posted in The Sunday Salon
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Review: Return to Tradd Street by Karen White
Series: Tradd Street (Book 4) Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: NAL Trade (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0451240596 Source: Publisher Melanie Middleton is struggling to get on with her life after refusing Jack’s proposal. Pregnant and determined to raise the child on … Continue reading
Posted in NAL, Paranormal Fiction, Review
Tagged haunted house, South Carolina, southern fiction
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A Year in Review: 2013
It seems cliche to say it, but wow, did this year go by quickly! It feels like I was just writing this post for 2012! As with years past, I like to wrap up the year by focusing on my … Continue reading
Posted in Bookish Chatter
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Review: Starter House by Sonja Condit
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062283057 Source: Publisher When Lacey and Eric, a young expectant couple, began their home-shopping journey, Lacey knew exactly what she wanted in a house. Growing up with unstable living arrangements and a … Continue reading
Posted in Mystery/Suspense, Paranormal Fiction, Review, William Morrow
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Review: The Descent by Alma Katsu
Series: The Taker Trilogy Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 1451651821 Source: Publisher *Please Note: This is the third book in a trilogy. If you have not read the previous two books, The Taker and The … Continue reading
Posted in Gallery Books, Paranormal Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Review
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