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BookTalk The Owen’s women have always been different. From the of their line, Maria Owens, these women have inherited a penchant for love, beauty, grey eyes, and magic. Our story opens with the generation of Sally and Gillian. Sally is a prim and proper utterly boring vegetarian who desires nothing more from life than to [...] 
October 13th, 2011 | Tags: Alice Hoffman, book talk, booktalk, family, practical magic, Review, sisters, witches | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment  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 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 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 BookTalk As a child Julia was adopted into a loving family. While she had no record of the woman who gave her up, her childhood was idyllic. Then, as a pregnant teen Julia found herself faced with the same heartbreaking decision…keep her child or give him up. 10 years later Julia Summers is famous for [...]
July 7th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, family, Genuine Lies, murder, mystery, Nora Roberts, relationships, romance, Trashy Romance | Category: Adult Lit, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment BookTalk A Crown Princess A Scandalous Crush A Kingdom on the brink of disaster… Alera is crown princess of Hytanica, on the eve of her 17th birthday the countdown begins to the day of her wedding…her 18th birthday. Alera is headstrong in a culture of male domination. Far too inquisitive and spunky Alera will not go [...]
July 5th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Cayla Kluver, family, Fantasy, Legacy, romance, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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