Hello, all!!! *Pushy waves* Welcome to the latest installment of Super 6 Sunday! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish. Check out the weekly schedule of themes here. Super 6 Books I’m Glad I Took A Chance On! You know how it […]
Happy Saturday, loves!!!!!! It’s Pushy here this week, filling in for the ever lovely, never replaceable, Danny who is (as we speak/read/roam around our houses in jams with a steaming cup of coffee) lounging in glamorous, sultry Thailand on an extremely well deserved vacation!! But fear not! A Saturday discussion topic has been selected! And […]
The Shining Like so many Stephen King fans, The Shining was one of his books I enjoyed thoroughly. I read it after I saw the Stanley Kubrick film version and the book is by far creepier. I loved how Stephen King imbued the hotel with a preternatural malevolence. So it was with great expectations that I […]
Welcome to one of our favorite features: “Waiting on” Wednesday is hosted weekly by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor Series: The Daughter Of Smoke and Bone #3 Expected publication: April 8th 2014 by Little, Brown & Company Goodreads| pre-order: Amazon Such a strong, dark cover! I can’t wait for Karou […]
A Powerful Work Of Art It’s not often that I read something and am struck by the sheer weight of how profound it is, but that is exactly what happened when I listened to this play. Intimate and yet at the same time universal, Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar completely undid me, leaving me deeply moved. Set in […]
Many Worlds I fell in love with Anna Jarzab’s writing a few years ago, when I listened to (in one of my very early audiobook forays) her absolutely stellar, stand alone novel, All Unquiet Things. So when I heard at BEA that Ms. Jarzab was putting out a sci-fi, YA novel this year, I was […]
Schoolyard Schadenfreude It takes a particular kind of author to shine a light into the intricate, often insensible, inner workings of parental/school politics, but Gill Hornby does so with a deft hand. With a clear eye and often a wry smile, Ms. Hornby takes us into the lives of these women and lets us see […]
Hello, all!!! *Pushy waves* Welcome to the latest installment of Super 6 Sunday! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish. Check out the weekly schedule of themes here. Super 6 Books I Can’t Wait To Read With My Kids! My kids […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. The Llama Llama Series By Anna Dewdney Amazon / B&N / Indiebound / Goodreads Llama, Llama red pajama waiting, waiting for his mama. Mama isn’t coming yet. Baby Llama starts to fret. In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby […]
Holly Black’s twist on vampirism, perhaps with more pathology than psychology, brings a fresh new look to the popular mythos of vampirism. I very much enjoyed the effort and thought that went into the world building Ms. Black created and how it was both familiar and fresh at the same time. At it’s heart, this […]
Hello, all!!! *Pushy waves* Welcome to the latest installment of Super 6 Sunday! Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish. Check out the weekly schedule of themes here. Super 6 Books that Scared The Bejeebus Out Of Me Halloween is almost here […]
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris continues the story of Janelle Tenner and thank goodness for that! When we leave her at the end of Unraveling her world has fallen to pieces around her. People she loves are dead, the world is in chaos and the boy she loves, Ben Michaels, has just left to go back to his […]
Happy Friday Welcome to our Friday Feature! My Friday Love is a weekly where we want to share what we loved during this past week. Hi, all!! *Pushy waves* It’s Pushy here today to share some Friday love with you! My Friday Love is… Dragons and Julie Kagawa!!!! Today, I want to share some news […]
