We all have characters we love. Let’s spotlight these fantastic creations! Whether you want to be friends with them or you have a full-blown crush on them, you know you love them and want everyone else to love them too! Most of you will probably post about how much you love each character, but this Continue Reading…
Happy 12th Birthday, Emily! You are growing up to be a beautiful young woman who is amazingly talented in so many ways. We are always proud of you! Love, Jennifer and Luis Emily is my cousin, and I don’t think she could have gotten a better birthday present than having Duke win the NCAA Championship! Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. Read and Reviewed: Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell–Intriguing story, just not written in a style I liked. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick–Not for me. Night by Elie Wiesel–An important Holocaust memoir. Continue Reading…
Honestly, I can’t help but feel that for me to sit in judgment of a memoir of the Holocaust would be terribly presumptuous. We can’t ever forget the Holocaust, and any work that reminds us of what happened is important and should be read as widely as possible. The style is a little sparse for Continue Reading…
I know a lot of you are going to disagree with me, but here goes…. Nora Grey is forced to sit next to the new guy, Patch, in biology class one day. He knows more about her than he should, and trouble starts to follow her around. I should have listened to Misty at Book Continue Reading…
We all have characters we love. Let’s spotlight these fantastic creations! Whether you want to be friends with them or you have a full-blown crush on them, you know you love them and want everyone else to love them too! Most of you will probably post about how much you love each character, but this Continue Reading…
This is the story of Claude Monet; his great love, Camille Doncieux; and their life as they struggle together in the years before his fame. I started reading this not knowing anything about Monet except that I used to have a print of one of his works hanging in my bedroom. I also don’t know Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. I visited my aunt and uncle for the long Easter weekend and had a great time. Now I’m trying to get caught up here! Read and ReviewedThe Fetch by Laura Whitcomb. There were things I liked, Continue Reading…
Were there a few problems with this book? Yes. But it was fun, funny, suspenseful and original. I read it in one shift at work. I was hooked when Harry quips, “But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.” What a great line! Harry is a […]
This book, the first in a series, is too big to easily sum up the plot and do it justice. Basically, Robert Baratheon led a revolt against the old king of the Seven Kingdoms when he was a young man. Now that he’s middle-aged, he’s found that he was more interested in fighting for the Continue Reading…
Booking Through Thursday says Since it’s April Fool’s Day, I toyed with different ideas of questions for today. * Who’s your favorite “fool” of a character, and why? * What authors have fooled you? By a trick plot twist? By making you think their book was any good when it wasn’t? * What covers have Continue Reading…