Nick and Allie were traveling in opposite directions on a windy mountain road. After a terrible accident, they find themselves traveling down a tunnel toward a light. But they bump into each other again and don’t get where they’re going. Instead, they end up in Everlost, a ghostly realm that co-exists with our world and Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for June 6, 2011! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I missed posting last week because of the holiday, so over the past two weeks, I’ve posted […]
4 Stars. I just read Art Spiegelman’s Maus about a month ago and loved it. I thought I would go ahead and give this other highly-acclaimed graphic novel/memoir a try. I enjoyed it, if that’s the correct word, but it didn’t affect me quite the same way Maus did. I’m not too sure why. Maybe it’s because I know more about WWII than […]
Josey Cirrini is one of the main characters in Sarah Addison Allen’s The Sugar Queen. Josey was a little brat as a child. She pitched temper tantrums so epic that the people of her small town are still talking about them now that she’s an adult. And there is Josey’s problem. She’s grown, she’s changed, but no one recognizes […]
These are all the authors who have been kind enough to stop by and guest post about the South. Robin Caroll—Injustice for All Michael Hervey—Soundkeeper Melinda McGuire—Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey Taylor M. Polites—The Rebel Wife Olivia deBelle Byrd—Miss Hildreth Wore Brown Susan Kelly—By Accident Kathryn Lively—Little Flowers I have an affiliate relationship with Malaprop’s, Continue Reading…
A list of my 2012 book reviews by title.
A list of my 2012 book reviews by rating.
A list of my 2012 book reviews by author.
Nate Quinn has spent his entire professional career following humpback whales around the ocean, trying to find out exactly why the males sing. He’s currently in Hawaii, where the whales spend the winter, still researching. His world is rocked on the day that he is taking pictures of one singer and sees BITE ME clearly Continue Reading…
Seven-year-old Rachel Kalama is living in Honolulu in 1893. Her life is punctuated with a child’s hopes and dreams and drama. Her father is a sailor, and she loves it when he comes home on leave, mostly because she’s excited to see him, but also because she loves to hear his stories about the wider Continue Reading…
This started out a little slow for me. It dragged along for about the first 150 pages. Then the action started and I couldn’t put it down. To oversimplify the plot, this is the story of Phèdre, a masochist who sleeps with her patrons not only for money, but also for state secrets. So, there were […]