It’s Monday! What are you reading? #Meme

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

J.Kay created a Meme for Mondays where you list the books you have recently completed this week, books you are currently reading, and books you hope to read this week.
The books I have read in the past week:

A Circle of Souls
Hot Gimmick (3in1) Vol. 1
Blanket of White
Four to Score
Surviving High [...]

REVIEW: #17 Fruits Basket Vol. 1

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Fruits Basket Vol. 1
Author: Natsuki Takaya
ISBN: 1591826039
Pages: 216

Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
A family with an ancient curse… and the girl will change their lives forever.  Tohru Honda was an orphan with no place to go until the mysterious Sohma family offered her a place to call home. Now [...]

REVIEW: #16 Surviving High Society

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes

Title: Surviving High Society
Author: Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland
ISBN: B002KKCSQC
Pages: 96
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
As an adopted child into a rich CT family, I was given the best of everything…education, clothes, trips to Europe, golf and tennis lessons, two houses to live in and access to personalities like Kate Hepburn and Eleanor Roosevelt.
My [...]

I already broke my "no more books" promise!

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

My husband and I happened to pass by this huge building titled “Half-off Books”. Could I go in .. and NOT get something when they were so abundant in books (and yes, they were half-off!) It’s like saying no to a delicious cookie. You just cannot resist the urge for [...]

REVIEW: #15 Four to Score

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Name: Four to Score
Author: Janet Evanovich
ISBN: 0312966970
Pages: 338
Synopsis: (Taken from Evanovich.com)
Working for her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki, whose crimes include bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Someone is terrifying Maxine’s friends, and those who have seen her are turning [...]

REVIEW: #14 Blanket of White

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Blanket of White
Author: Amy Grech
ISBN: B002LLNG52
Pages: 119
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Blanket of White True love knows no bounds.
Crosshairs A young boy learns the perils of hunting fare game firsthand.
Prevention Murderous twins help their dear mother into and out of trouble.
Perishables A nuclear fallout survivor finds [...]

REVIEW: #13 Hot Gimmick (3in1) vol.1

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Title: Hot Gimmick (3in1) Vol. 1
Author: Miki Aihara
ISBN: 1421523485
Pages: 552
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon)
In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can’t afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana’s bad [...]

REVIEW: #12 A Circle of Souls

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Title: A Circle of Souls
Author: Preetham Grandhi
ISBN: 1599552353
Pages: 339
Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town’s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases [...]

It’s Monday! What are you reading?

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes

J.Kay created a Meme for Mondays where you list the books you have recently completed this week, books you are currently reading, and books you hope to read this week.
The books I have read in the past week:

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
EyeLeash by Jess C. Scott
Three to Get [...]

WINNER: Jerry Spinelli Giveaway

Reading time: < 1 minute

The winner of the Jerry Spinelli: Stargirl giveaway is Alyce, selected at random. Congratulations, Alyce! I will be contacting you to find out where to send your prize book! Thank you to everyone who entered the first Well-Read Reviews giveaway! There will be many more to come!

What is my daughter saying?

Reading time: < 1 minute

PICTURE REMOVED.
.. when she goes into my bookcase, steals one of my unread books, and runs off squealing and laughing? Is she trying to tell me not to read so much.. or is she trying to see what this “reading thing” is all about?

I need to stop buying books! (Really)

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

This is the LAST set of books I am buying for a while. No more buying books until all the books I have purchased are done! (Well – mostly). The only Janet Evanovich book I am ISO is “Visions of Sugar Plums“. Also – would appreciate if you not tell [...]

REVIEW: #11 – Three to Get Deadly

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Three to get Deadly
Author: Janet Evanovich
ISBN: 0312966091
Pages: 396
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Evanovich.com)
Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick, is back, and she’s having a bad hair day – for the whole month of January.
She’s been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemeir, Trenton’s most [...]

I love books in the mail!

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

I absolutely love and adore getting the mail. Maybe it’s silly – but it’s an Amelie (little pleasure) of mine. Opening up the mailbox to find a package is always a happy experience for yours truly. Today I received an ARC copy of “Circle of Souls” by Preetham Grandhi. It [...]

Book Selection for the Japanese Lit Challenge

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes

I have selected three books for the Japanese Literature Challenge. I chose one manga from a series I have been wanting to try, but also selected two authors of novels that I have wanted to try. Usually I would be all for reading manga (because I am such a g33k [...]

REVIEW: #10 EyeLeash

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes

Title: EyeLeash
Author: Jessica C. Scott
ISBN: 1448615984
Pages: 260(pdf)
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Jade Ashton is a sassy virgin. In her private blog, she vents about “fitting in” a world where superficiality reigns supreme. Suddenly all logic flies out the window when she meets Novan: the former geek, who’s morphed into a [...]

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