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Book Review: The Chosen
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Chosen Author: Andrea Buginsky Publisher: Solstice Pages: Ebook; 113 Release Date: December 14, 2010 Source: Author/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Upper Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: Fantasy violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart A young dwarf leads a quiet life until she learns of her true calling and becomes a hero of her world. Halli, a shy young dwarf, discovers she’s a Holy Paladin with the power to heal. She learns of this from Queen Laurali of the Elves, who has come to see Halli after the villages of their world, Phantasma,…
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An Interview with Brian Farrey and a giveaway!
Tweet Okay really, what’s not to love about this picture? This is the amazing Brian Farrey, whose book With or Without You I’ve been shamelessly promoting these last few weeks. Oh, what’s that you say? I’m doing it again? Too bad! It’s amazing! Anyway Brian is here today to share an interview with you (which made me giggle) and I’m also giving away a copy. Aren’t you just lucky ducks? 1. Welcome to the blog! Let’s start out with a challenge! If you had to choose a color to describe yourself, what would it be and why? OK, first I have to…
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The Third Path solved!
Tweet Ready for some more Nine Paths fun? This little box showed up at my door a few days ago, and I admit that I wasn’t expecting such a small package! What on Earth could be in it? After opening it I found this little jewelry box. Ooooh. Jewelry you say? As a girl who loves a good pair of earrings or a necklace, I was intrigued! Sadly I had to wait until I got home from work to actually open it… When I finally had time to open it, look what I found! A mysterious language filling a card,…
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An Interview with Summer and Leif from Shadow Dancer!
Tweet Today Courtney Rene is here to tour her book, Shadow Dancer. Well actually, her two main characters are here! Sunny and Leif are here to share a bit about themselves with you, and banter adorably. *grins* They are just too cute. Take a look and make sure to add their story to your to read list! Please describe yourself in a tweet: Sunny: Happy. Shy but fun. Naive. Intelligent. Loveable and giving. Although not clumsy, quite un-athletic. Willing to try new things and believe in the impossible. Leif: Cold, driven, focused and demanding. World weary. Will do anything…
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Book Review: The Misadventures of PIP
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Misadventures of PIP Author: Donna Peterson Publisher: Bonneville Pages: Paperback; 96 Release Date: June 14, 2011 Source: NetGalley =================== Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: None HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Pip, whose real name is Phillip Isaac Penn, feels that the world is against him as he struggles to deal with angry parents, a bossy older sister, a frazzled teacher, and memorable characters such as Bully Bart, Cheater Chaz, Know-It-All Nell, Liar Lizzy, Stealer Steffan, Conman Cody, and Tattle-Tale Tess. Every day of the week brings another challenge that…
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Book Review: Forgotten
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Forgotten Author: Cat Patrick Publisher: Little, Brown Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: June 7, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Each night when 16 year-old London Lane goes to sleep, her whole world disappears. In the morning, all that’s left is a note telling her about a day she can’t remember. The whole scenario doesn’t exactly make high school or dating that hot guy whose name she can’t seem to recall any easier. But when London starts experiencing disturbing visions…
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Book Review: Flying Blind (The Dragon Diaries #1)
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Flying Blind Author: Deborah Cooke Publisher: New American Library Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: June 7, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Zoë Sorensson is perfectly normal, except she’s been told she’s destined for great things. Zoë’s the one female dragon shapeshifter of her kind. But Zoë is at the bottom of the class when it comes to being Pyr and her powers are AWOL, so she’s sent to a Pyr boot camp. Zoë quickly realizes that she has to master…
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Book Review: The Sext Crime
Media Type: Book Title: CYA 2: The Sext Crime Author: Jason Ancona Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 280 Release Date: February 27, 2011 Source: Author ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Do awesome dance moves count? HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart SNAP–a girl sexts racy pics of herself. She thought the fun shots would stay between her and her boyfriend. SNAP–an anonymous hacker hijacks her photos. If she doesn’t obey, she’ll be exposed. SNAP–the Covert Youth Agency takes the girl’s case. The agents jump headfirst into Operation: Sext Crime. Their new client has less than a week…
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Meeting Amalie Howard & a giveaway!
Tweet Amalie Howard is stopping by today to promote her debut novel, Bloodspell on an epic blog tour! I’m lucky enough to have a special bio to post in her honor. She even brought a giveaway with her, you lucky people you. Spoiled, that’s what we are. As a book blogger, I love to learn more about authors so this was great for me! Take a look! My Twitter handle says that I’m a “writer, mother, dreamer, jedi, superhero, evil genius, and part-time lunatic.” That’s me in a nutshell. I write books for young adults because I have a thirteen-year-old girl…
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My (Current) Top 5 Books of 2011!
Tweet So I was chatting with one of my fellow bookish friends, who doesn’t blog, and she asked me what my top 5 books so far are. I blanked. I mean, wow. I’ve read almost 100 books so far this year, and I’ve loved a lot of them! Asking me to pick 5…well it’s like trying to pick your favorite flavor of ice cream. They’re all so good! However she challenged me, and I never turn down a challenge, so here goes. Keep in mind, this is for now! Who knows what the next few months of reading will bring!…