Deadly Little Secret (Touch #1) - Review

Deadly Little Secret (Touch #1) by Laurie Faria Stolarz My rating: 4 of 5 stars 3.5 Stars I did enjoy the premise of Deadly Little Secret. I liked most of the writing and the main character, Camelia. It is mostly a dialogue-driven story, which leaves the characters under-developed. I did not get to know Camelia all that well, even though she narrates, since not much goes on in her head aside...

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Follow Friday (5)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: The New Year is here — and everyone wants to know your New Years Blogging Resolution! What are you going to try to revise, revamp and redo for 2012 on your blog? - I'm not new to blogging, even though this particular...

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Waiting On Wednesday (6)

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Lies Beneath (Lies Beneath #1) by Anne Greenwood Brown Description from Goodreads: Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids....

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Top Ten Tuesday (4)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten Favorite Books I Read in 2011: (In no particular order) 1. Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand 2. Hex Hall (Hex Hall #1) by Rachel Hawkins 3. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 4. The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta 5. Die For Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum 6. The Unbecoming of Mara...

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Shatter Me - Review

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi My rating: 3 of 5 stars The first half of Shatter Me is written with strikethroughs and run-on sentences that are a paragraph long and words and phrases are continuously repeated 3 times. And the metaphors are numerous. Depending on the reader, the writing may either be highly annoying or pure genius. I'm still not sure which it is. Juliette is the protagonist. In the...

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Follow Friday (4)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: If you had to spend eternity inside the pages of a book which book would you choose and why? Considering the name of my blog, would I choose anything other than Persuasion? I could stand an eternity of Captain Wentworth...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 21 (5) Destiny and Deception (13 to Life #4) by Shannon Delany

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Destiny and Deception (13 to Life #4) by Shannon Delany 356 pages Expected publication: January 31st 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin Description From Goodreads: The sensational fourth novel in the...

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Top Ten Tuesday (3)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings: 1. 2. and 3. The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set. Hardcover, of course. (Am I the only one who hasn't read these yet?!?!) 4. 5. 6. and 7. The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa. The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen, The Iron Knight. 8. Illuminated by Erica Orloff. 9....

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Follow Friday (3)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question of the Week: When you've read a book, what do you do with it? (Keep it, give it away, donate it, sell it, swap it..?) I borrow most of my books from the library, so those I return (obviously). If the book is really...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 14

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Illuminate (Gilded Wings #1) by Aimee Agresti Hardcover, 544 pages Expected publication: March 6th 2012 by Harcourt Children's Books Description from Goodreads: "Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high...

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Saving June - Review

Saving June by Hannah Harrington My rating: 3 of 5 stars Saving June was a good story, but I think it could have been much better. It just didn't have enough depth for me and I really didn't connect with the characters at all. Maybe because I am older and the characters were very immature. I especially never understood Harper. She was completely unrelatable to me. The way all of the characters...

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Follow Friday #2

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: Keeping with the Spirit of Giving this season, what book do you think EVERYONE should read and if you could, you would buy it for all of your family and friends? Not everyone I know reads. In fact, I think some are...

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Third Sentence Thursday

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly feature that is currently being hosted by Proud Book Nerd. 1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence 2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged) 3) Post a link to your sentence here (in the comments) or if you don’t have a blog, just post your sentence in the comments! "It happened on the last day of school." Deadly...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 7

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Hardcover, 320 pages Expected publication: May 8th 2012 by Harcourt Children's Books Description from Goodreads: "It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy...

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Top Ten Tuesday (2)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Up this week is Top Ten Childhood Faves. I have been checking out everyone's Top Ten this week, and boy do I feel old. Most of the books I am seeing I read to my kids when they were young. So my Top Ten may not go ever so well. These are my earliest memories of reading. 1st grade circa 1974-ish. We were allowed...

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Review: Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand

Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand Hardcover, 435 pages Published January 4th 2011 by HarperTeen Source: Library Synopsis from Goodreads: In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . . Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no...

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Follow Friday #1

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Question: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don't like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it! As a parent of 2 teenagers, I really don't like when parents or guardians in books are conveniently absent or just plain clueless to what is going on. I like to think...

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Dash & Lily's Book Of Dares - Review

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to read something Christmas related, so I chose Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. I really liked how it started. Lily purposefully leaves a notebook on a shelf in a bookstore. Dash finds the notebook and follows the dares written inside. He then leaves the notebook where instructed. Lily gets the notebook back and discovers...

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