REVIEW: #58 The Everafter

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: The Everafter
Author: Amy Huntley
ISBN: 0061776793
Pages: 256
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Madison Stanton doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this—she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark space. The only company she has in this place are luminescent objects that turn out [...]

REVIEW: #52 Ferris Beach

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes

Title: Ferris Beach
Author: Jill McCorkle
ISBN: 1565129318
Pages: 352
Rating:

Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine “Katie” Burns, the only child of middle-aged Fred and Cleva Burns, believes. Shy and self-conscious, she daydreams about Ferris Beach, where her beautiful cousin, Angela, [...]

Friday Firsts: A Book #Meme

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

Blogger Meme: Friday Firsts
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The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author [...]

REVIEW: #33 Wretched (This is My Sorry)

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes

Title: Wretched (This is My Sorry)
Author: Katherine Marple
ISBN: 1434885275
Pages: 248
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
Shane loves her but is afraid of her sickness. They’ve been together for years, but have grown apart. Even though they constantly fight, he clings to her as much as he can, because he’s afraid [...]

REVIEW: #32 Dead to the World

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Title: Dead to the World (#4 in the series)

Author: Charlaine Harris
ISBN: 978-0-441-01218-3
Pages: 310
Rating:

Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
It’s not every day that you come across a naked man on the side of the road. That’s why cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the [...]

REVIEW: #29 The Beneficiary

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Title: The Beneficiary
Author: Marshall Thornton
ASIN: B001R4C07O
Pages: 34
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Set in the ’90s during the Los Angeles riots, this contemporary noir follows a struggling real estate agent who’s cooked up a plan to make a big pot of money. Hanging around a Narcotics Anonymous meeting she finds a former [...]

REVIEW: #25 Solanin by Inio Asano

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Solanin
Author: Inio Asano
ISBN: 1421523213
Pages: 432
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon)
College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude.
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently [...]

REVIEW: #24 The Red Album of Asbury Park (Remixed)

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes

Title: The Red Album of Asbury Park: Remixed

Author: Alex Austin
ISBN: 1602644500
Pages: 260
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
It’s the late Sixties, the Beatles intact, Jimi Hendrix exploding and the Doors demanding the world. And on the East Coast, Asbury Park, New Jersey, will become the epicenter of a new brand of rock [...]

REVIEW: #20 Precession

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes

Title: Precession
Author: Abigail “Abby” Arrington
ISBN: 1432735195
Pages: 296
Synopsis: (Taken from back of Book)
ATTORNEY RILEY MORGAN is still recovering from a devastating personal loss when a long-time friend and colleague convinces her to take on a new high-profile client at her Florida law firm. Little does she know the case will [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: Precession

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read.
Open to a random page.
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that [...]

REVIEW: #19 A Cold-Blooded Business

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes

Title: A Cold-Blooded Business- Adultury, Murder, and a Killer’s Path from the Bible Belt to the Boardroom
Author: Marek Fuchs
ISBN: 1602392544
Pages: 201
Synopsis: (Taken from Inside Flap)
In 1959, Olathe, Kansas was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote’s ground-breaking book on the Crime, In Cold Blood. But [...]

REVIEW: #18 Dead Until Dark

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Title: Dead Until Dark
Author: Charlaine Harris
ISBN: 0441008534
Pages: 292
Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in a small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of “disability.” [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: Dead Until Dark #meme

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read.
Open to a random page.
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that [...]

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 [...]

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: #9 A Thousand Splendid Suns

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes

Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 159448385X
Pages: 432
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from GoodReads)
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the [...]

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