From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Published by Atheneum BYR Publish Date: September 25, 2007 (this edition) 175 Pages Source: My Bookshelf Challenges: Award Winning Reads When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to […]
Win THE HUNT by Andrew Fukuda – International! HERE Win STRUCK by Jennifer Bosworth – US/Canada! HERE Click HERE to check out Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten CAPSLOCK & OMG!!! Books (there really are more than this, you know) YEP, the entire Black Dagger Brotherhood series. SO WHAT!? I know […]
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton Published by Crown Publishing Group Publish Date: April 24, 2012 400 Pages Source: Crown Publishing Group/TLCBookTours There is a fire and they are in there. They are in there… Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and rush. She […]
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach–an “outlander”–in a Scotland torn by war and raiding […]
Click here to see Let’s Talk! I’m so excited that Melissa at i swim for oceans likes discussion posts because sometimes I get chatty and have things to say. Melissa has opened her Let’s Talk event up to the rest of us and I’m excited to be a part of it. Thanks, Melissa! This week’s […]
Hello Everybody! Today is my stop on the STRUCK by Jenn Bosworth Blog Tour! I am SO excited! I have something awesome for you today! I read and shared my thoughts on STRUCK way back at the end of January 2012 and, you guys, I loved it so much. Really, I had such a great […]
The Hunt (The Hunt #1) by Andrew Fukuda Published by St. Martin’s Griffin Publish Date: May 8, 2012 293 Pages Source: ARC from publisher/NetGalley Don’t Sweat. Don’t Laugh. Don’t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them. Gene is different from everyone else […]
Click here to see Let’s Talk! I’m so excited that Melissa at i swim for oceans likes discussion posts because sometimes I get chatty and have things to say. Melissa has opened her Let’s Talk event up to the rest of us and I’m excited to be a part of it. Thanks, Melissa! This week’s […]
More Like Her by Liza Palmer Published by HarperCollins Publish Date: April 17, 2012 309 Pages Source: HarperCollins/TLCBookTours What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances’s mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently dumped with spectacular drama by her boyfriend, aspires to be just […]
Click HERE to check out Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Books You’d Like To See As A Movie (assuming top-notch production and excellence in the craft) Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley Everybody Sees The Ants by A.S. King Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi Incarnate […]