My Thoughts: Brad Shepherd worked hard to be a math teacher, and it was a job that he thought he was meant to do and would always enjoy. But when a student overdoses on prescription pills and dies in his classroom, Brad is basically forced to resign from his position. After dedicating his life to […]
My Thoughts: Breaking Nova is certainly not a romantic fairytale. It is a story of how two broken people can be toxic together, how they can fuel the worst types of behavior in themselves, yet still be drawn to the good things that are left in each other. This is not a novel that everyone […]
My Thoughts: Losing your sibling in a tragic accident isn’t easy, and Laurel’s broken family is even more devastated when her older sister May dies unexpectedly. Their parents are already divorced, but now their grief stricken mother needs to get away and heads to a ranch in California, leaving Laurel to split her time between […]
My Thoughts: In the dystopian world of Elizabeth Fama’s Plus One, society is split into two: those who are allowed to live in the daylight (Rays) and those who are allowed to come out during the night time (Smudges). This division in society came about during the flu epidemic in the early Twentieth Century, and when […]
My Thoughts: After the unexpected death of her husband and followed by the loss of her unborn child a few months later, Charley’s life is in a tailspin. She’s isolated herself, only working and staying at home to mourn in solitude. After a year she decides that it’s time for her to move on, and […]
My Thoughts: Beyond Belief is a British cozy mystery novel, full of quirky, fun characters set against a scenic sea side back drop in a small British resort town. Emily Castle is a bored office worker—and she’s mostly content that way—but when psychics begin to predict the drowning death of someone at the Belief and […]
My Thoughts: When Dani’s latest case as an elite security firm data analyst is suddenly shut down by her boss and all investigative material will be immediately destroyed, she has to run home to retrieve a few pieces of research that she shouldn’t have taken out of the work place in the first place. But […]
My Thoughts: Gerald Faust and his family were featured on “Network Nanny” when he was five years old. With a sadistic older sister that is doted upon by their parents, Gerald and his other sister react to being broadcasted across the world in different ways. First he vents his frustration and anger by punching things, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
