Scarlett O’Brien dreams that her life will one day become just like a romantic comedy. Her friends and family worry about her because she seems to be dissatisfied with the life she has because of her obsession with the movies. She’s engaged to be married in a couple of months but she just doesn’t seem Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve Posted: Review: The Host by Stephenie Meyer Review: The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig Readers’ Workouts: The Color Run Edition Read: The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag The Host Continue Reading…
In a future that strongly resembles Invasion of the Body Snatchers, humans are an endangered species. A militantly peaceful race of extraterrestrials known as “souls” has decided that the passionately violent humans don’t deserve to live on the Earth. So they have calmly taken over the vast majority of human bodies. Sometime after the aliens Continue Reading…
Laura Grey is tired of her life as a governess, so she joins forces with The Pink Carnation. After the requisite training, she is sent to work as a governess for Andre Jaouen, a high-ranking official in the French Ministry of Police. She’s also tasked with finding out any information that might be of use Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Nothing. This was a pretty sad week, reading- and blogging-wise. Read: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Lisette Lecat Currently Reading: The Host by Stephenie Meyer Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews, read by Isabel Keating Manhunt: Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. I haven’t posted in a little while, but this is what’s been going on around here over the past couple of weeks: Posted: Review: Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol Review: The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew Review: The Wild Continue Reading…
Jacky Faber finds herself working for the Royal Navy again after being mistakenly pressed into service. The ship she finds herself on is in bad shape, with a sick, evil captain who reigns with an iron fist and who has let his boat and his crew get into bad shape. Nothing can keep Jacky down Continue Reading…
Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort meets 17-year-old Nit Spindle when she sees the young woman standing outside one day, contemplating an old sign hanging on her fence advertising “Prayers for Sale.” Hennie takes the newly-arrived woman under her wing, showing her how to survive in a Colorado mining town in the ’30s and passing on her vast Continue Reading…
I find it hard to describe this book without making it sound dull and boring. I’ve tried to tell my husband and he just looks at me blankly. “It’s about trees?” “Well, yes, but it’s interesting and it’s about…trees.” Sometime in the late ’80’s, a few people who didn’t even know each other decided to Continue Reading…
June Bentley “Jubie” Watts is 13 years old in 1954 when her mother decides to take all four of her children to visit her brother in Pensacola, Florida. As any affluent housewife of the time would do, she asks the maid to come along on the trip to help take care of them. Jubie does Continue Reading…
Anya falls into an abandoned well one day and finds herself alone with a skeleton. Needless to say, she is terrified. Especially after the ghost of a girl about her own age shows up. Anya is rescued fairly quickly and tries to put the whole experience behind her. But she’s brought something back out into Continue Reading…