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Graphic Novel Review: Shark Summer by Ira Marcks
When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha’s Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle “Blue Streak” Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever. After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island’s own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely friends are about to discover what happens when you turn your camera toward the bad things lurking below the surface.
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Book Review: Creature Feature by Steven Paul Leiva
THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN PLACIDVILLE! It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, a serious actress who took her training at the Actors Studio in New York, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman on Vivacia’s House of Horrors for a local Chicago TV station. Finally fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, she quits and heads to New York and the fame and footlights of Broadway. She stops off to visit her parents and old friends in Placidville, the all-Ameican, middle-class, blissfully normal Midwest small town she grew up in. But she finds things are strange in…
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Book Review: Fire With Fire by Destiny Soria
Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn’t be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it’s kill or be killed where dragons are concerned. Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond with him. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. With Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers…
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Book Review: Pizazz by Sophy Henn
Discover the annoying side of being a superhero from snarky, reluctant hero Pizazz in this hilarious and highly illustrated new series for young middle graders—perfect for fans of Dog Man and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Most people think superhero work is awesome and fulfilling. Pizazz knows better. Whenever she’s in the middle of a movie or having fun with her friends, she has to dash off the save the world. And she’s always in the same outfit, including an embarrassing glittery cape, and the wedgies are unreal. Plus, being the good guy all the time is so not easy.…
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Book Blitz: After Thought by P.A. Crenshaw
Hello bookworms, and happy Sunday! It’s my hope that you’re enjoying a nice long weekend, preferably surrounded by good friends, good food, and good books. Or any selection of those things! I’m here today to help add to that TBR, with a spotlight on a newly released book. Are you ready? Let’s do it! After ThoughtAfter Thought Series Book 1 P. A. CrenshawGenre: FantasySub-Genre: Magical Realism/Urban Fantasy Releasing May 30, 2021 What if ordinary people could do extraordinary things by thought alone? What if falling in love could get you killed? Welcome to P. A. Crenshaw’s brand-new AFTER THOUGHT series,…
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Book Blitz: Becoming Brooklyn by Amanda Deich
Happy Thursday friends! You’re almost at the end of the week, so kudos to you for working so hard! In case you’re planning on treating yourself to a new book or two (or three, we won’t tell) let me put another book on your radar! This time we’re spotlighting Becoming Brooklyn by Amanda Deich! Becoming Brooklynby Amanda DeichPublication date: January 5, 2021Genres: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Young Adult Eighteen-year-old Brooklyn never knew her father. Rex Blackburn died in the 9/11 attacks four months before she was born. And even though she never met him, she always dreamed about what he must have been like before…
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Book Review: You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon
He wakes up on a deserted beach in Maryland, wearing only swim trunks and a gash on his head. He can’t remember who he is. Everything—his identity, his life, his loved ones—has been replaced by a dizzying fog of uncertainty. But returning to his Maine hometown in search of the truth raises more questions than answers. Lily Reid thinks she knows her boyfriend, Jack. Until he goes missing one night, and her frantic search reveals that he’s been lying to her since they met, desperate to escape a dark past he’d purposely left behind. Maya Scott has been trying to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Quotes That Inspire Me
Happy Tuesday friends! Can you believe that it has been over a year since I last participated in one of these? Honestly it’s testament to how different last year was from every other year before that. Which, I’m sure we can all attest to. Moving out of that fog, and into a much better headspace, has been so freeing. The fact that I’m back to reading and blogging regularly is just a happy side effect, but I am so very pleased. I feel like I got a piece of myself back. Anyway, on to the prompt shall we? Top Ten…
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Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (5/17/21)
Hello friends, and happy Monday! I am a particularly happy bookworm, because I was able to attend my in-person commencement ceremony for my Master’s Degree on Friday. Thanks to how well we are doing with vaccines here (Thank you SCIENCE!) we were able to have a real commencement, with some necessary adjustments. It was so fun! I still have half of my current class left, and one more after that, but soon I shall have an MSPM. I cannot believe how quickly time flew by. I’m excited! Anyway, back to books yes? I have actually done some excellent reading the…
