Strings Attached by Judy Blundell is seedy night clubs personified. With each turn of the page, one can practically smell the cigarette smoke wafting. The year is 1950 and Kit Corrigan has moved to New York City from Providence, Rhode Island in hopes of catching her big break and landing a role in a Broadway […]
Audiobook Review: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
April 19, 2011
When I think of Afghanistan, I think of a giant mess and bombs and war and kites and the Taliban and unhappy people. I don’t often think of extraordinary acts of courage. I don’t think of women being brave. However, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked […]
Throwdown! With Kendare Blake: Werewolves Jacob Black vs. Michael Jackson in Thriller
April 19, 2011
I’d like to welcome Kendare Blake and let her take over my blog to present to you this THROWDOWN OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!!! Throwdown! With Kendare Blake: Werewolves Jacob Black vs. Michael Jackson in Thriller Well well. Here we are again. This is the second Throwdown post and giveaway. The first was hosted by Shanyn over […]
Book Review: A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
April 18, 2011
I am pretty sure everyone who begins a book enters the book hoping to love it. With a select few books that people may start off with their fists swinging, I think the vast majority of us want to love what we read. I am not immune to this, nor do I ever want to […]
Book Briefs: Boom by Mark Haddon and Radiance by Alyson Noel
April 16, 2011
I’ve done this before under the same name for picture books, and figure this might work for books I don’t have all that much feeling for either way. Ya’ll know what mini-reviews are by now, so I’ll just launch into it. Title: Boom! Author: Mark Haddon Synopsis: Boom is a middle grade novel about two […]
Book Review: Bumped by Megan McCafferty
April 15, 2011
The other day as I sat in the dentist chair while getting my teeth prodded with a sharp metal rod, a commercial for Teen Mom 2 came on the tv. I go to a fancy dentist, with HD TVs in all of the examining rooms. It’s awesome. Anyways, while watching that commercial, I thought oh […]