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*Spoiler Alert* Review This book was so much better than the second. With Torment I was a ball of frustration. FRUSTRATION. In Passion I finally felt like we were going somewhere. And Kate did that by literally taking the reader (and Luce) through a smorgasbord of Luce’s past lives. While the trip began to answer [...] 
June 20th, 2011 | Tags: Angels, Book Review, friendship, Lauren Kate, Paranormal Romance, relationships, romance, Series, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | 2 comments  Here are just a few titles I picked up this week. They’re all sitting on my nook hoping to be my next read! This is my first attempt, not only with the meme “In My Mailbox” hosted by The Story Siren, but also with making a video. I will warn you…the quality is not great [...] Review I love this series. The first book, Fallen, was so delicious. This series is just yummy. That being said…I have to admit…I hate the second in a series of four. I would bet, even if I’d never read a book in the series, that the main character is going to be frustrated and confused. [...]
June 17th, 2011 | Tags: Angels, Book Review, Fallen Series, friendship, Lauren Kate, paranormal, Paranormal Romance, romance, Series, Torment, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | 2 comments My assistant is leaving me! Oh, The Horror! We have spent 3 years “spending way too much time together” and I have no idea how I’m going to function without her. She’s moving on to an internship that will help her finish her degree in School Psychology and though I wish her well, I also [...] Waiting on Wednesday is a blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine in which bloggers post about up-coming releases they’re dying to read. My Pick: The Wild Rose (publication date: August 2, 2011) I simply devoured Donnelly’s first two…The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose…and am currently waiting very impatiently for August to come… Summary [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, historical fiction, Jennifer Donnelly, relationships, romance, Series, The Wild Rose, Waiting on Wednesday | Category: Adult Lit, Waiting On Wednesday | 6 comments BookTalk Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for Kate. Anna gives her health for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At birth Anna gave stem cells at 13 Anna is expected to give a kidney. As this final surgical effort to save Kate [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Tags: book talk, booktalk, cancer, chick lit, Death, family, Jodi Picoult, medical ethics, My Sister's Keeper, problem novel, relationships | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | Leave a comment BookTalk Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for Kate. Anna gives her health for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At birth Anna gave stem cells at 13 Anna is expected to give a kidney. As this final surgical effort to save Kate [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Tags: book talk, booktalk, cancer, chick lit, Death, family, Jodi Picoult, medical ethics, My Sister's Keeper, problem novel, relationships | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | 2 comments BookTalk “As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash [...]
June 13th, 2011 | Tags: Angels, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Going Bovine, Libba Bray, Printz Award, relationships, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 3 comments BookTalk The Waverly women are an intriguing bunch. Generations of these women are blessed with a touch of magic, and are given the care of an apple tree whose apples will reveal the biggest event in your life. Claire has taken over Waverly house, and its magical garden. She uses its flowers and herbs to [...]
June 10th, 2011 | Tags: abuse, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, family, friendship, Garden Spells, magical realism, relationships, romance, Sarah Addison Allen, sisters | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment BookTalk When was the last time you left your house without your phone? I’ll turn around halfway to work if I don’t have mine. I feel so disconnected if I don’t have it. This chilling novel imagines a society dominated by the “Feed” a next-generation Internet/television/smartphone hybrid that is hardwired directly into the brain. [...]
June 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Dystopian, Feed, M. T. Anderson, National Book Award, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
                
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