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Weekly Rewind (4/7/13)
Monday – Book Review: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls Do you love a creepy read? Are you a fan of quirky female characters and Middle Grade fiction? Well then this is a book that you definitely need to have on your reading list! Tuesday – Google Reader Alternatives! If you’re like me, and read all your blogs through a reader, you’re probably looking for a program to replace GR. Here’s my review of some of the ones I’ve tried! Wednesday – Excerpt + Giveaway for Undone: An Unraveling Novella GIVEAWAY ALERT! If you are a fan of Elizabeth Norris’…
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Blogger Backstage Pass: Karin from My Life…
It’s time for another edition of Blogger Backstage Pass! Are you always looking for shiny new blogs to follow? Do you feel like you’d just like to get to know some of the bloggers a little better? Here’s your opportunity. Each month I’ll pick a new blogger and host them here! You’ll get to see an interview with them and nab all their contact info. Also, in case you forget who they are and want to visit them, their information will be in the right hand sidebar all month. This month’s featured blogger is… Karin from My Life…! A little over…
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A guest post by Liz Gruder
Tour Link When New Orleans went under during Hurricane Katrina, I worked in the media. Martial law had been declared. Driving through the warzone, soldiers poked guns in my face as I held up ID. I saw the Xs painted on houses with a number declaring the dead. I drove to a beloved marina with boats piled up like Tinker Toys. All wildlife was dead and the seagulls had been blown away. Everything had been destroyed. I saw my husband, who had kept his boat there and loved the marina, the wildlife, and the sunsets, fall to his knees and…
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Book Review: Destiny, Rewritten
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Destiny, Rewritten Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: February 19, 2013 Source: Eidelweiss ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love smart, quirky female characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn’t even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her…
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Excerpt + Giveaway for Undone: An Unraveling Novella
Elizabeth Norris’ Unraveling series has been on my wishlist for quite a long time! That is why I was so excited to hear that the next book in the series, Unbreakable is on its way. For those of you who have already read Unraveling and are looking for a little more, Harper Teen Impulse has just put out a novella that goes between the first two books. Titled Undone, it contains three short stories to sate your taste buds while you wait for the next book. Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the…
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Google Reader alternatives!
As we all know, and are probably freaking out about, Google Reader is going away soon. I for one follow every blog I read via RSS. The great thing about that is that all you need to do is find a new RSS reader! There are plenty of them out there, each with there own strengths. I’ve made it my own personal mission to find some great alternatives, and here are my favorites: Bloglovin’ What I like about Bloglovin’ is the simplicity of it. Much like Google Reader, it streamlines your posts into one row of feeds. However what I…
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Book Review: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls Author: Claire Legrand Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 343 Release Date: August 28, 2012 Source: Library —————————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love big adventures with a darker side to them. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster—lazy…
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March Wrap Up
It’s April already? Wow, time flies! I apparently forgot to do one of these last month, so here’s a chance to see how I’ve done since the end of January. Let’s get to it! (YA) = Young Adult / (A) = Adult / (MG) = Middle Grade / (C) = Children ** Books read in previous months Books Read and Reviewed in March: (YA) Keeper of the Black Stones by P.T. McHugh – Review (5/5) (YA) Edge of the Falls by Nazarea Andrews – Review (4/5) (YA) Escape Theory by Margaux Froley – Review (4/5) (YA) The Culling by Steven Dos Santos – Review (4/5) **…
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Book Review: The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons Author: Barbara Mariconda Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: Hardcover; 224 Release Date: October 2, 2012 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Those who enjoy a feisty female lead, and a read with ample adventure. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N An enchanted flute that vibrates when danger is near, sparkling mist that unlocks a drawer of family secrets, and a bookcase that expands to conceal her hiding place—these are the bits of magic Lucy…
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Starseed Excerpt + Giveaway
Tour Schedule Starseed Author: Liz Gruder ISBN: 978-1937178291 Publisher: WiDo Publishing Published: February 2013 SUMMARY************************* Starseed concerns a sixteen-year-old girl who falls in love with a starseed boy who reveals that she, too, is half extraterrestrial, and is forced to choose her allegiance between Earth and her star family. ************************* Kaila Guidry has always known she is different. When she meets Jordyn Stryker at school, she finds out just how different. Jordyn was born and raised far from Earth, a starseed, one of six new students sent to Louisiana’s Bush High to learn human ways. But Jordyn didn’t count on…