The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation’s most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing…
Shout out to my Pinterest Addicts! I’m having fun with this Pinterest thing! I never really thought of myself as a visual person, but now when I’m reading I’m thinking of the images I pinned. I have the tendency to get caught up in that section when you first walk into the library of recommended books. Usually I find an author I’ve never heard of, and every now and again…
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Website Blog Facebook Twitter) Hardcover, 408 pages Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Scholastic Press ISBN 0545424925 (ISBN13: 9780545424929) Synopsis by Goodreads Rating: “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to…
Here’s the deal. I’m thirty-five. Soon to be thirty-six next month. I feel like there was a time I was “hip” and “cool” and “down” with technology. I was one of the only seniors in high school to have an email address and was pretty darn good at surfing the web using Infoseek and Lycos on my sweet dial-up AOL account. Fast forward through various screen names on Telnet in college…
Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry (website, Facebook | Twitter) Genre: YA Contemporary Romance Publication: July 31st, 2012 by Harlequin Teen ARC from BEA Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound | Book Depository synopsis from Goodreads Rating: “I won’t tell anyone, Echo. I promise.” Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be…
The past week was a whirlwind. Was so fun to reconnect with old friends and make new friends! I feel like I haven’t had a chance to even get my information together to add people on twitter and facebook, or my blog feed yet. Hopefully by the time this has posted I will! Since it was my first time at BEA I really didn’t know what to expect. I remember…
Hello, hello, hello, dear reader!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by! As you know four of us are at BEA this week: Danny, Pushy, Heather and Kristen, and as we’ve spent the past month sharing our previous experiences at BEA with you, you know we had to share this week with you!!!! Sunday! Arrival and Evening Awesomness *Pushy* On Sunday we all arrived. After some taxi…
I know I”m totally all over the place with my books and reviews lately. Is it gonna be some hunky steamy stuff, or maybe some freaky sci-fi, or possibly some romance, or just some vampire smut? This one is completely NOT any of that (sorry to disappoint) as I’m a huge Tina Fey fan and it’s been on my to-read list ever since seeing the reprint of the “Mother’s Prayer”…
Well hello there! It seems like Spring is upon us and my book blogging has been lacking and sadly not crackalacking. The good news is that I’m still reading! So here is a quick and dirty synopsis of what’s been keeping me up til 2am every night.
Lace up your cape, because Greta Maloney takes us into a deep, dark, lovely wood with this Little Red Riding Hood reboot!
I mean to write a review, but got totally sidetracked by this great blog post here. For those of you kick starting some New Year resolutions, or just like some funny prose, this is for you! I totally stalked the rest of her blog (loling on her cats and sillies), and that made me wonder, has anyone read Joshilyn Jackson books? Because her blog is completely cracking me up! This…
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (goodreads, website, twitter) Book I in All Souls Trilogy Genre: SciFi/Fantasy Published February 8th 2011 by Viking adult Copy procured from my local library A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the…
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter by Laurell K Hamilton Various Titles (there are 20 in all so far) Author website Hello there voracious readers! Remember waaaaaay back when, I was ‘saving’ a couple of series for when the weather got bad and I got bored waiting for the ‘hottest’ new thing? One of these series was the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton. Now, I was going to…
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Pushy and Danny are both going to be at BEA and at the BEA Blogger Conference in 2013! Shoot us a mail if you want to meet up!!
