REVIEW: #79 Phantoms by Dean Koontz

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Note: I can’t believe I only have 3 entries in the entire month of may. This 3rd trimester lack of energy is REALLY affecting me!! Eek! Title: Phantoms Author:Dean Koontz ISBN: 0425181103 Pages: 448 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from GoodReads.com) They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found [...]

REVIEW: #78 Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: Dear John Author: Nicholas Sparks ISBN: 0446567337 Pages: 352 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life–until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly [...]

REVIEW: #76 One Amazing Thing

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: One Amazing Thing Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 1401340997 Pages: 240 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people [...]

REVIEW: #75 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: Uglies Author: Scott Westerfeld ISBN: 1435248244 Pages: 425 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon.com) Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth [...]

REVIEW: #74 Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Remember Me? Author: Sophie Kinsella ISBN: 0440242401 Pages: 448 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon.com) When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a [...]

REVIEW: #73 Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Title: Odd Thomas Author: Dean Koontz ISBN: 0007695381 Pages: 446 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as [...]

FRIDAY FIRSTS: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld #Meme

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Blogger Meme: Friday Firsts I try to tweet about all participants, so don’t forget to include your Twitter user name if you want to be notified of your tweet mention! The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in [...]

REVIEW: #70 The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: The Unit Author: Ninni Holmqvist ISBN: 1590513134 Pages: 272 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, [...]

REVIEW: #66 Emma Vol. 1 by Kaoru Muri

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Emma Vol. 1 Author: Kaoru Mori ISBN: 1401211321 Pages: 192 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) An upstairs gentleman and a downstairs servant share a secret love. The saga begins. In Victorian England, a young girl named Emma is rescued from a life of destitution and raised [...]

REVIEW: #64 Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: Graceling Author: Kristin Cashore ISBN: 0547258305 Pages: 480 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Friday Firsts: A Book #Meme

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Blogger Meme: Friday Firsts All participants will have their entry tweeted about, so don’t forget to include your Twitter username if you want to be notified of your tweet mention! The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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