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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
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Book Review: Hickey of the Beast
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hickey of the Beast Author: Isabel Kunkle Publisher: Candlewick Gleam Pages: Serial Novel Release Date: March 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Connie thought freshman year might suck. She never thought it’d be literal. Bad dreams? No big deal. After all, Connie Perez is starting her first year in the prep school her mom runs. Anyone would be a little stressed, right? When she starts dreaming about strange creatures and places that don’t make sense, she doesn’t think much about…
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Book Review: Future Imperfect
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Future Imperfect Author: K. Ryer Breese Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: April 26, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, language and sexual content HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Ade Patience can see the future and it’s destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade’s the best of Denver’s “divination” underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the…
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Book Review: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter Author: Frank L. Cole Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Pages: Hardcover; 288 Source: NetGalley ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violent situations and mild death scenes. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Amber never dreamed her archaeology class would turn into a top secret mission that would take her across the globe, but when her teacher goes missing, Amber realizes it’s up to her to protect the Hidden Scepter or risk unleashing an ancient power too terrifying to imagine. This guaranteed page-turner from the bestselling author of the Hashbrown…
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Top 10’s with Jennifer Archer
Tweet Today I’m here with Jennifer Archer, author of the upcoming Through Her Eyes to do a top 10 list! Basically I choose a topic, and she shares her list! If you haven’t already happened upon Through Her Eyes you should read it! See my review here, but it is simply fantastic! Mystery, romance and a bit ghost. Amazing! I digress though. Take it away Jennifer! Name 10 places you would like to visit before you die. Ireland. I love rain, and Ireland just looks so incredibly, beautifully lush and green. The countryside, the villages, the ocean mist – it all looks…
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Writing Angels with Alex Smith
Tweet Today I have Alex Smith, author of Calling for Angels, is here to share a little bit about writing angels. See into her writing process and enjoy! Review is here if you want to take a look! Writing angels. I never get my ideas in a sudden stroke of sheer brilliance. I mean that would be nice, but I don’t. Ideas are always this vague feeling in the back of my mind that just grow over time. I was 13 when I got my idea for “Calling For Angels”. There was this insurance advert on TV with an angel…
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Childhood Memories with Susan J. Bigelow
Tweet Hi everyone! Today I have Susan J. Bigelow, author of Broken here with a guest post. She is sharing with us her favorite book memory from her childhood. Let’s see what she has to say shall we? ********** I have many wonderful memories of books from when I was young, because my childhood was full of them. My mother made sure that both my sister and I had plenty of books to read, always. We were one of those families that instituted a “no reading at the table!” during meals rule, because otherwise we’d read instead of talking with one…
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Double dose movie review: HOP and YOUR HIGHNESS
Tweet This weekend I actually saw a double header of movies. Spending time with the family always equals going to the movies, and if we can’t decide on one then we go to two! This time it was HOP on one day and YOUR HIGHNESS the next. I’ll give you a quick run down of what I thought of each. Okay I’ll admit, I might have had higher hopes for YOUR HIGHNESS than I should have. It was one of those movies that you go into wanting to like so badly, that it really doesn’t stand a chance of living up to expectations.…
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Book Review: Invincible Summer
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Invincible Summer Author: Hannah Moskowitz Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Cussing and sexual situations HDB Rating: 5 (Super Shiny) Keys to My Heart Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house,…
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Talking cliques, with Amy Holder!
Tweet Please welcome the wonderful Amy Holder to my blog today! She’s on tour with her new book The Lipstick Laws, and she’s here today to share a little bit with us about her experience with cliques! We all know those cliques, the ones that taunt you and glitter with popularity. I’m anxious to see what Amy has to say, so without further ado I’ll let her take it away! “Fame is a fickle friend; sometimes you’re in, and sometimes you’re out.” I’ve paraphrased Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and Heidi Klum from Project Runway (my favorite show in the…