Welcome to another addition of meditation quotes. This week me and my yoga gals meditated on the idea of friendship, and our love for our friends. The girls didn’t pick this week’s theme, I started to gather some quotes on love and thought that my teenage group might be better served by the warm [...]
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Summary from GoodReads (a.k.a. didn’t like this one enough to booktalk) Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she’s still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance and recover from [...] 
April 26th, 2012 | Tags: Barefoot Season, Blackberry Island #1, friendship, Review, Susan Mallery | Category: Adult Lit, Review | Leave a comment  BookTalk Miles “Pudge” Halter’s claim to fame is memorizing famous last words. Take Henrik Ibsen, the playwright. Well, he’d been sick for a while and his nurse said to him ‘You seem to be feeling better this morning’ and Ibsen looked at her and said, ‘On the contrary.’ and then he died. Or Civil war [...]
August 23rd, 2011 | Tags: boarding school, friendship, John Green, Looking for Alaska, mental illness, pranks, relationships, Suicide | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 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 Beach Week Book Three! This one is all about spending summers at a beach house and finding yourself old enough for that first love. Told in retrospectives of Belly’s past summers you’ll get to know her and why this summer is so very important…Enjoy the sun, sand, and the love… BookTalk Isabel, a.k.a. Belly, [...]
June 30th, 2011 | Tags: beach, beach read, cancer, divorce, family, first love, friendship, Jenny Han, realistic fiction, relationships, Series, summer read, The Summer I Turned Pretty Series, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Beach Week Book 2 I loved this book. The beach setting is so well done you’ll taste the salty air. A perfect read surrounded by sun and sand or your couch…’cause you’ll feel like you’re there… BookTalk “I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I’ve thought [...]
June 28th, 2011 | Tags: beach, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, family, friendship, Jessi Kirby, Moonglass, realistic fiction, Suicide, summer read, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment I am on Vacation…So it’s Beach Week here on the blog. Granted I live less than a mile from the ocean in Southern Florida, so really every week is beach week for me, but there is just something special about being on vacation at a beach. Even if you’re a year round beach bum a [...]
June 27th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Death, friendship, horror, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, mystery, paranormal, Sarah Mlynowski, scary stories, Series, Short Stories, short stories from hell, Suspense, Vacations From Hell | Category: Short Stories, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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