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Book Review: Kubrick’s Game by Derek Taylor Kent
Media Type: Ebook Title: Kubrick’s Game Author: Derek Taylor Kent Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: Paperback; 363 Release Date: September 26, 2016 Source: Author ——————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of puzzles, and definitely fans of Stanley Kubrick’s movies. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Shawn Hagan, a college film student obsessed with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, discovers hidden clues in his movies which lead him on a harrowing quest toward a mysterious treasure that Kubrick left behind. Endangered by sinister groups on the same quest, Shawn…
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Book Review: Time Traveling With A Hamster by Ross Welford
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Time Traveling With A Hamster Author: Ross Welford Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Pages: Hardcover; 434 Release Date: October 4, 2016 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of all ages, but specifically those young readers who have a big love for science and theory! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Back to the Future meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in this original, poignant, race-against-time story about a boy who travels back to 1984 to save his father’s life.…
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Book Review: Yesternight by Cat Winters
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Yesternight Author: Cat Winters Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: October 4, 2016 Source: Harper Collins Publishers and TLC Book Tours ——————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence and Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy darker historical fiction, with a look at reincarnation. Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There,…
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Book Review: The Bone Tree by Greg Iles
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Bone Tree *Series: Penn Cage #5 Author: Greg Iles Publisher: William Morrow Books Pages: Hardcover; 804 Release Date: April 21, 2015 Source: Harper Collins Publishers and TLC Book Tours ——————————————————————— Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have previously joined Penn Cage on his journey to pin down the Double Eagles. Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story he began in his smashing New York Timesbestseller Natchez Burning with this…
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Book Spotlight + Author Interview: Outward Blonde by Trish Cook
There’s a lot of fun to be had with today’s spotlight, because Trish Cook was kind enough to stop by for a stellar interview! If you haven’t already added Outward Blonde to your TBR, let me tell you that you absolutely should. It’s funny, adorable, and so easy to relate to! If you have ever been in the “great outdoors” against your will? Well, Lizzie feels your pain. Sixteen-year-old Lizzie Finkelstein is a hard-partying socialite who lives a charmed life with her mother in Manhattan. After a public drunken sexual escapade results in both an arrest and an embarrassing viral video…
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Thankful Thursday
In the madness that has been the last two weeks, I put everything to the wayside in favor of work. Which is dangerous, because if there one thing that I’ve learned it’s that I need a certain amount of self care. Ignoring that leads to anxiety, and depression. Those are roads I like to avoid if at all possible. I’m writing this post as a way to stop for a minute, and really think about these last two weeks. What I’ve been trying to do, mostly in my paper journal, is take some time once a week and write down…
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Book Review: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Bookshop on the Corner Author: Jenny Colgan Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: September 20, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours and Harper Collins Publishers ——————————————————————– Genre: Women’s Fiction / Chick Lit HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love books that are all about the love of books. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | HarperCollins “Losing myself in Jenny Colgan’s beautiful pages is the most delicious, comforting, satisfying treat I have had in ages.”—Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Secrets Nina…
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Book Blitz: The Rift Uprising by Amy S. Foster
Today we’re celebrating the book birthday of The Right Uprising by Amy S. Foster. In my opinion, there’s nothing better than a book birthday! A new read, going out into the world, for everyone to enjoy. What could be better than that? Check it out! Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it. Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar. Ryn and her fellow Citadels were specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift—one of fourteen unpredictable…
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Book Review: Natchez Burning (Penn Cage #4) by Greg Iles
Media Type: Print Book Title: Natchez Burning *Series: Penn Cage #4 Author: Greg Iles Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 816 Release Date: Reprint Edition; August 4, 2015 Source: TLC Book Tours / William Morrow Paperbacks ——————————————————- Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy hard hitting, well fleshed out crime dramas with a hefty helping of historical background. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: The Surrendered by Case Maynard
Good morning, darling bookish people! It’s time for another spotlight, and this time it’s a dystopian story with a dire premise. What if children were the nation’s most valuable resource? That’s what Case Maynard ponders in The Surrendered. The Surrendered Case Maynard Published by: Blaze Publishing Publication date: September 20th 2016 Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult After a financial collapse devastates the United States, the new government imposes a tax on the nation’s most valuable resource—the children. Surrendered at age ten—after her parents could no longer afford her exorbitant fees—Vee Delancourt has spent six hard years at the Mills, alongside her…