Review: The Legacy by Katherine Webb

The Legacy by Katherine Webb Fiction, Published August 30, 2011 Challenges: Historical Fiction ARC received from netGalley.com Read: August 2011, 496 pp. 3/5 Book Blurb: Following the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor, a grand and imposing house in Wiltshire, England, where they spent their summer holidays [...]

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Review: River’s Song

River’s Song by Melody Carlson The Inn at Shining Waters #1 Fiction – Christian, Historical (1959), Published August 2011 Read: August 2011, 274 pages 3.75/5 Book Blurb: Sometimes when we look back, we are able to see ahead. Following her mother’s funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns [...]

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The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall – Review

Fiction/Romance, Published 2005 Challenges: Southern Reading Challenge Three #3 Bought @ bn.com $3.99 July 2008 Read August 2009 Rating: 4/5 For anyone looking for some 1920′s southern charm. From the Preface: Just because a woman is good at something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s what she should do in life. If that were the case, most [...]

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Review: The Thorn

The Thorn by Beverly Lewis The Rose Trilogy #1 Fiction-Amish, Published Sept 7, 2010 ARC Received from Publisher, Bethany House Challenges: Series IV, Summer Reading Challenge Read Sept 2010, 346 pp. Verdict: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Lancaster County, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE [...]

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Review: McMurtry’s Sin Killer – A Sin of A Book!

Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry, Audio narrated by Alfred Molina The Berrybender Narratives #1 Fiction – Historical/Westerns, Published 2002 Challenges: Audio Book Challenge, Series Challenge IV Read June 2010 2/5 Book Blurb: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first leg of an epic journey through the early American frontier, introducing a pioneer family [...]

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Review: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman Fiction-Southern, Published 2010 Read June 2010, 306 pp. Shelf Life: Never got there! 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble.  For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother Camille – the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town – a woman trapped in her [...]

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Review: The Tale of Halcyon Crane

The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb Gothic Fiction/Mystery/Suspense, Published 2010 Read May 2010 Challenges: Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge, Time Travel Reading Challenge Shelf Life: N/A – I read this one immediately!! 5/5 First Line: “I was the only passenger on the ferry crossing to Grand Manitou Island.” Book Blurb: When a mysterious [...]

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Ella Minnow Pea – A Word Lover’s Delight!

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Fiction/Epistolary Novel, Published 2001 Challenges: N/A Received from paperbackswap.com Read March 2010 4/5 From the Cover: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina.  Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the [...]

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Sarah Addison Allen’s The Girl Who Chased the Moon Previews!

I’m so excited for this book to come out on March 16th! I’ve already pre-ordered it! Check out the author’s website for all the Extra Moon Goodies!  I especially like the “Book Cover Saga” and of course all the great recipes she always includes in her books! Amazon.com has just posted the book trailer. (Sorry, [...]

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Mirror, mirror on the wall…

Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire Audio book narrated by John McDonough, with Kate Forbes, Barbara Rosenblat, and Richard Ferrone Fiction, Published 2003 Challenges: Once Upon a Time, Audio Book Reading Challenge Read: Feb 2010 3/5 Verdict: This book is not the fairest of them all… From the Cover: The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca [...]

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