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Book Review: The Art of Escapism Cooking by Mandy Lee
Media Type: Print BookTitle: The Art of Escapism CookingAuthor: Mandy LeePublisher: William Morrow CookbooksPages: Hardcover; 400Release Date: October 15, 2019Source: TLC Book ToursGenre: Cookbooks HDB Rating: 4* Recommended to: Readers who love a good cookbook, with stories behind the beautiful food. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with influences from around the world. For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband’s work wasn’t an exotic adventure—it was an ordeal. Growing increasingly exasperated with China’s stifling political climate,…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
Good morning lovely people, and happiest of Fridays! You’ve made it to the end of the week, and I am SO PROUD OF YOU. Celebrate a little. It’s been a long road to get here. I have a spotlight for you today, and a chance to win a book, so let’s get to it! Frozen meets Mad Max in this epic teen fantasy duology bursting with star-crossed romance, immortal heroines, and elemental magic, perfect for fans of Furyborn. Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister’s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split…
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Book Review: The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey
Media Type: Print BookTitle: The Library of Lost ThingsAuthor: Laura Taylor NameyPublisher: Inkyard PressPages: Hardcover; 384Release Date: October 8, 2019Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4* Recommended to: Readers who love characters with depth, and a story that hits hard. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother’s hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their…
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Book Review: The Speed of Falling Objects by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Media Type: Ebook (ARC)Title: The Speed of Falling ObjectsAuthor: Nancy Richardson FischerPublisher: Inkyard PressPages: Hardcover; 384Release Date: October 1, 2019Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher Content Warning: Violence and Death HDB Rating: 4* Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories that put characters into situations that really cause them to grow. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From the author of When Elephants Fly comes an exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Don’t miss this compulsively readable novel about the most unlikely of heroes. Danger “Danny” Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn…
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Book Review: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Media Type: Print Book Title: Chilling EffectAuthor: Valerie ValdesPublisher: Harper VoyagerPages: Paperback; 448Release Date: September 17, 2019Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours Genre: Space OperaHDB Rating: 3* Recommended to: Readers who love snarky heroines, plenty of action, and lots of madcap antics. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the…
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Book Review: The Babysitters Coven
Media Type: Ebook (ARC)Title: The Babysitters CovenAuthor: Kate WilliamsPublisher: Delacorte PressPages: Hardcover; 368Release Date: September 17, 2019Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours Content Screening: Nothing of note.HDB Rating: 3* Recommended to: Readers who love cute, fun stories with plenty of snarkiness! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it’s kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to…
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Book Review: Stormrise by Jillian Boehme
Media Type: Ebook (ARC)Title: StormriseAuthor: Jillian BoehmePublisher: Tor TeenPages: Hardcover; 320Release Date: September 24, 2019Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours Content Screening: Mild ViolenceHDB Rating: 4* Recommended to: Readers who love stories with strong female characters who beat the odds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A combat warrior will risk everything to awaken the dragons and save her kingdom in Jillian Boehme’s epic YA Fantasy debut, Stormrise, inspired by Twelfth Night and perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce. If Rain weren’t a girl, she would be respected as a Neshu combat master. Instead, her gender dooms her to a colorless…
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Book Review: After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
Media Type: Print BookTitle: After The FloodAuthor: Kassandra MontagPublisher: William MorrowPages: Hardcover; 432Release Date: September 3, 2019Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours Genre: Science Fiction/DystopianHDB Rating: 3* Recommended to: Readers who love slow burn books that deal excellently with climate change as an end of the world scenario. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | HarperCollins An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities…
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Project Management or Time Management?
Ah, friends. I’ve done it. I’ve gone back to school, to pursue my Master’s Degree. It’s week one and I’m already remembering how much effort it takes to balance that work/life/school load in a way that won’t drive me mad. Most of my weekend was taken up with reading school texts and composing discussion posts, so I didn’t do much reading for fun. I’m going to have to remember how to fit both into my schedule. Hahaha. Ah, school. How anxious you make me. Anyway I’ll be around, but don’t be surprised if I’m a little scarce now and then!…
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Book Review: All The Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Media Type: Print Book (ARC)Title: All The Bad ApplesAuthor: Moïra Fowley-DoylePublisher: Kathy Dawson BooksPages: Hardcover; 320Release Date: August 27, 2019Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours Content Screening: Mild Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5* Recommended to: Everyone. Seriously. This book is a beautiful work of art. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. ‘This will be really embarrassing,’ I kept saying to my family, ‘when she shows up at the door in a week or two.’ When Deena’s wild and mysterious sister Mandy…