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BookTalk Carrie McClelland is a bestselling author of historical fiction. She’s made enough off her writing to travel the world, living in the locations where her books are set. Carrie begins her journey at a French Castle. She’s decided to track Nathaniel Hooke, an Irishman deeply involved in the failed Scottish uprising of 1708. But, Carrie is finding [...] 
October 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Book Club of Two, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, historical fiction, jacobite, love, memories, romance, scottish uprising, susanna kearsley, the winter sea | Category: Adult Lit, Book Club of Two, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment  BookTalk “so long as we know we’re trapped, we still have a chance to escape.” (67, Galley ed.) Neva is hosting a ‘Dark Party’. She’s planned the details with her best friend for weeks. They’ve snuck her father out of the house. Being he head of rewriting the Protectosphere’s history makes him a figure most [...]
August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, Dark Parties, Dystopian, Sara Grant, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment It’s Kowalski Family Week! Today is day two of my reviews/booktalks for Shannon Stacey’s Kowalski Family series. I recently discovered these books and blew through them in three days! It’s a series all about a large, loving, laughing family that is way too involved in each other’s lives. Lets just say I’m in love [...]
July 27th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Kowalski Series, pregnancy, relationships, romance, Series, Shannon Stacey | Category: Adult Lit, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment Click Here to enter to win a Signed copy of Forever *Spoilers* Review This was by far my favorite book of the series. I know it ends without resolving the wolf/human problem…but still, it seemed strangely finished to me. Having that last image of a fall leaf as a wedding band around Grace’s finger is [...]
July 20th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, family, friendship, love, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal Romance, relationships, romance, Series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, werewolf, werewolves, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment *Spoilers* Review One of my favorite parts of this book was when Grace told off her parents. I normally don’t support this type of outburst from teen characters. I often find that either the adult they are ranting at was such a caricature of a person that it seems unfair…or that they aren’t seeing a valid adult [...]
July 19th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, family, friendship, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal Romance, romance, Series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, werewolf, werewolves, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk “All right, Miss Teen Dreamers! Yoo-hoo! Over here! I’m wigglin’ my fingers your y’all’s attention! Could ya’ll come on over here, please?”…”Hi. I’m Taylor Rene Krystal Hawkins, and I’m Miss Teen Dream Texas, the state where dreams are bigger and better – nothing against y’all’s states. I’m a senior at George Walker Bush High [...]
July 14th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, consumerism, friendship, Gender Roles, lesbians, Libba Bray, pirates, plane crash, romance, satire, trans gender, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Emma thought her life couldn’t get any worse. Within a year she’d lost both her mother and her twin brother leaving her with a grieving alcoholic of a step dad to take care of her. After her stepfather wrapped both of them around a tree Emma is left not only with a massive scar [...]
July 13th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Cara Lynn Shultz, chick lit, family, friendship, paranormal romace, spellbound, witch, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk “I remember this: his yellow eyes. I thought I’d never see them again.” (2, epub) Grace was attacked by wolves as a child. They took her from her tire swing for a tasty mid-winter snack. But Grace survived. The wolf with the yellow eyes held her to her human world. Sam is a summer [...]
July 12th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal Romance, relationships, romance, Series, Shiver, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, werewolves | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 2 comments |
               
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