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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 “Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After.” (6, ePub ed.) So begins this tale of After. Laurel Meisner and her once-friend-turned-bad-boy neighbor David ditch their respective families plans to grab ice cream after a seder dinner. David claimed calculus homework with a friend. [...]
August 11th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, Death, family, grief, high school, jennifer castle, realistic fiction, relationships, the beginning of after, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Donna Parisi has been wandering through her high school years. She’s acquainted with a nice group of people but they really aren’t friends. She gets good grades and is accepted to the University of Dayton, but her heart’s not in the choice. Donna is drifting. She prefers finding solace in her father’s memory rather [...]
August 9th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, family, funeral home, Jen Violi, mortician, Putting Makeup on Dead People | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment It’s Kowalski Family Week! So last week I fell in Love…with a books series! I started Shannon Stacey’s series about a large, loud, loving family from the North East. I read the first book and then quickly devoured the rest. So my booktalk/review posts of the week feature the three books currently released in [...]
July 26th, 2011 | Tags: Exclusively yours, family, Kowalski Series, relationships, romance, Series, Shannon Stacey, Trashy Romance | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review, 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 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 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 |
               
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