Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged 2009 young adult book challenge, brian selznick, caldecott medal, childrens fiction, the invention of hugo cabret, young adult fiction on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Children’s Fiction, Published 2007
2008 Caldecott Medal Finalist
J. Kaye’s Book Blog – 2009 Young Adult Book Challenge #1
Read Sept 2009
5/5
From the Cover:
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his [...]
Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged bitsy's bait & bbq, fiction, pamela morsi, southern reading challenge, southern reading challenge three on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I just bought us a B&B on eBay!”
With 31 notes from Bitsy, how could you go wrong? While this is not strictly considered a southern read as it takes place in the Missouri Ozarks, I think this small town community could be placed anywhere in the south. (Being from Texas it is sometimes hard [...]
Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged fiction, magical realism, Sarah Addison Allen, southern reading challenge, The Sugar Queen on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Southern Reading Challenge Three #1
Fiction, Published 2008
Read June 2009
4/5
From the Cover:
Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet.
Review:
Once again [...]
Posted in book review, books, challenges, tagged bernhard schlink, fiction, german novels, historical fiction, holocaust, lit flicks challenge, oprah's book club, the reader on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Translated from German by Carol Brown Janeway
Historical Fiction, Published 1997
Read Feb 2009
3/5
From the Cover:
Set in postwar Germany, The Reader is a provocative, morally challenging, and deeply moving novel about a young boy’s erotic awakening in a clandestine love affair with a mysterious older woman. Falling ill on his way home from [...]
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged fiction, janet evanovich, naughty neighbor on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Naughty Neighbor by Janet Evanovich
Fiction, Published 1992, 2008
Read May 2009
3.5/5
Louisa Brannigan’s neighbor was driving her crazy. He snatched her newspaper and listened through her townhouse walls. But when she got fired from her government job, Pete was there, asking her to join his undercover operation. So Louisa was hopelessly entangled – professionally speaking – with [...]
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged confessions of a shopaholic, fiction, shopaholic series, shopaholic takes manhattan, shopaholic ties the knot, sophie kinsella on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With the new movie about to come out, I thought I would do a triple deck review for the first three books in the Shopaholic series. Rebecca Bloomwood is just a hoot. In her first adventures in Confessions of a Shopaholic, she is a London socialite who just can’t say no to a good deal. [...]
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged biography, letter to my daughter, maya angelou on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Letter To My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
Biography, Published 2008
Read Dec. 2008
3.5/5
Description:
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living [...]
Posted in book review, books, from the shelves of mel, reviews on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson Series #3
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Published 2008
Mel Read Nov 2008
4.5/5
From the Cover:
Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape – but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it’s up to Mercy to clear his [...]
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged diane setterfield, fiction, the thirteenth tale on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Audible, Narrated by Bianca Amato and Jill Tanner
Fiction, Published 2006
Audiobook Nov 2008, Read Dec 2006
4.5/5
From the Cover:
Margaret Lea works in her father’s antiquarian bookshop where her fascination for the biographies of the long-dead has led her to write them herself. She gets a letter from one of the most famous [...]
Posted in book review, books, from the shelves of mel, reviews, tagged Codex Alera, Furies of Calderon, Jim Butcher, Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi and Fantasy on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera #1)
by Jim Butcher, 504 pages
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Published 2005
Mel Read Oct. 7, 2008
4.5/5
From the Back Cover:
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies — elementals of earth, air, fire, [...]
