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Book Review: Hourglass
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hourglass Author: Myra McEntire Publisher: Egmont USA Pages: Hardcover; 397 Release Date: June 14, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep…
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Interviewing A.B. from Cursebusters & a giveaway!
Tweet Julie Smith is here today, to share a bit more about her book, Cursebusters! She’s brought along one of my favorite characters in that book for me to interview. Please give a warm welcome to….A.B…one of the funniest, toughest and most pompous creatures out there! Make sure you show him proper respect. He’s a bit of a stickler in that department. 1) 1) Hi A.B., or do you prefer Your Highness? Anyway welcome! Let’s start out with something fun. If you had to describe yourself in just 3 words, which ones you would you choose. Please not “Your Highness”,…
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Book Review: Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Media Type: Book Title: Thoughts Without Cigarettes Author: Oscar Hijuelos Publisher: Gotham Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: June 2, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————— Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an honest look at this author’s life, peppered with great stories. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels. Born in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Hijuelos introduces…
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Book Review: Ashes, Ashes
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Ashes, Ashes Author: Jo Treggiari Publisher: Scholastic Pages: Hardcover; 343 Release Date: June 1, 2011 Source: Publisher ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl’s unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares. Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park.…
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Interviewing Zenn from Possession
Tweet Elana Johnson, author of Possession, is here today! She brought along her character Zenn, who is one of the love interests of Vi, our main character. Trust me when I say that Zenn is quite….well to put it in his own words complicated. He’s one of the reasons that the book is so deep and full of twists. Here’s your chance to see a little bit into his head before you really dive into the book. 1) Hi Zenn, thanks for coming by! First things first, if you had to describe yourself in just one word, what would it…
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Book Review: Cursebusters
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Cursebusters Author: Julie Smith Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: May 17, 2011 Source: Author/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Budding-psychic Reeno is the most accomplished teenage burglar in California, but one tiny screw-up and poof!—she’s sentenced to Bad Girl School. And that isn’t even her worst problem. Her sister Haley’s dying of an illness no one can diagnose, and now she can’t even help. But wait, maybe she can! The school psychics have found each other and formed their…
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Interviewing Pi from The Sext Crime
Tweet Please welcome the fantastic (and funny) Jason Ancona to the blog today! He’s on a tour to promote his newest book in the Cover Youth Agency Series, aptly titled The Sext Crime. It’s hilarious, I should know, and here’s my review so you can know too. Not that I’m peddling the book or anything *whistles*. Anyway I’m interviewing Pi today! Take a look at this sweet main character and fall in love. I demand it! 1) Hi Pi, welcome to my blog once again! Nice to see you back! Let’s start with a challenge. In a tweet (exactly 140…
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Book Review: Nightspell
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Nightspell Author: Leah Cypess Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: May 31, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all. In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger—not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours. Darri’s sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now…
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The 7th and 8th Paths are solved!
Tweet Ready for some more Nine Paths fun? The Mai symbol for foe is what you see right there to the left. The 7th Path centered around this symbol. Who is Chloe’s foe? Well I intended to find out. We were sent a package with a business card (notice the odd edge) and a pen. Upon opening them I made sure to look all over each, and even took the pen apart. Oh don’t judge me, ABC Family and the Mai can be tricky! However it was the back of the card that held the secret. It told me to…
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Barbara Quick, on when she’s not writing!
Tweet The lovely Barbara Quick, author of the recently reviewed A Golden Web, is here today to share with us a little bit about what she does when she isn’t busily writing her amazing books. As a reader, I love to know things like this! So away we go! For the past two years I’ve been living in the countryside in the Wine Country of Northern California with my fiancé (very soon to be my husband!), who is a violist with the San Francisco Symphony. Between his practicing, teaching and the weekly concerts I attend, I’m pretty much immersed in…