My Thoughts: Maxine Revere has dealt with more unsolved death in her life than the average person. While the murders of her high school best friend during their senior year, and later her college best friend in an unrelated crime led her to become an investigative reporter that takes on cold cases across the country […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature. I’ve purchased some real gems from the Scholastic Books flyer that my son brings home from Pre-School every month. I’m Bored, written by comedian Michael Ian Black and fantastically illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, is one of those rare books that my almost five-year-old […]
Our Thoughts: Heather: I usually don’t read historical novels, especial fantasy. I’m not a big fan of having to muddle through complex descriptions of strange worlds or long forgotten history. But the description of this one was interesting, so I gave it a go–and I’m certainly very glad that I took a chance on The Winner’s […]
Welcome to our latest edition of Super Six Sundays! Enjoy! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish . You can see the weekly schedule of themes here. It’s so great to see so many people participating! Check back later and […]
My Thoughts: After a few months of relative quiet according to Cat, it’s time for their lives to be put in danger again and upturned. Cat learns from her Uncle Don’s ghost that her former government team has gone missing, so she and her master vampire husband Bones decide to get to the bottom of […]
Welcome to our latest edition of Super Six Sundays! Enjoy! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish . You can see the weekly schedule of themes here. It’s so great to see so many people participating! Check back later and […]
My Thoughts: In Michael Landweber’s We, forty-year-old Ben’s OCD leads him to try to clean a water spot off of the ceiling, leading to a nasty fall resulting in a hospital stay where he is in a coma. Instead of remaining in the dark, he awakens in the kitchen of his youth, inside the head […]
In this installment of Heather Finally Reads, I finally got around to reading the Divergent series since it’s complete and before the movie comes out in March. I’ve already reviewed Divergent and Insurgent on the previous two Tuesdays. ***Mild Spoilers for Books One and Two in the Divergent Trilogy Below*** My Thoughts: The Divergent series seemed to be a mountain […]
My Thoughts: I’ve really enjoyed The Coincidence series so far (my reviews of The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden and The Redemption of Callie and Kayden). When I saw that the third book was going to focus on Kayden’s best friend Luke and Callie’s college roommate Violet, I was on board, figuring that I […]
In this installment of Heather Finally Reads, I finally got around to reading the Divergent series before the movie comes out and now that it is complete. I reviewed the first book, Divergent, last Tuesday, and I’ll be reviewing the final book, Allegient, next Tuesday. ***Mild Spoilers for Book One in the Divergent Trilogy Below*** My Thoughts: I really enjoyed the […]
Welcome to our latest edition of Super Six Sundays! Enjoy! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish . You can see the weekly schedule of themes here. It’s so great to see so many people participating! Check back later and […]
We’d like to welcome author JoAnna Wiebe to Bewitched Bookworms today, and she’s giving us a little guide to getting along as new students at Cania Christy Preparatory Academy. The Cania Christy Preparatory Academy’s Survival Guide for New Students My eldest sister used to say that the way to survive at a new school is […]
In this installment of Heather Finally Reads, I finally get around to reading the Divergent series before the movie comes out and now that it is complete. I’ll be reviewing each book for the next couple of Tuesdays in January. My Thoughts: In this dystopian future, Chicago is a walled off city and Lake Michigan is a […]
