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, 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 reviews, tagged appaloosa, fiction, robert b. parker, western, westerns on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
Everett Hitch Trilogy #1
Fiction – Western, Published 2005
Read March 2009
4/5
From the Cover:
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld, fiction, Laura Bush on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction, Published 2008
Read March 2009
3/5
From the Cover:
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged book reviews to come on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a way to force myself to finish some reviews, here’s what’s to come in the next few days…
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Along the Shore by L.M. Montgomery (From Mel’s Shelves)
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 [...]
