A Winter Scandal (Legend of St. Dwynwen #1) by Candace Camp

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Thea is officially a spinster. After a few seasons attempting to garner attention with youth and ribbons and no dowery to speak of Thea left the ballrooms of the country and settled into life as a Vicar’s sister. She spends her days writing her brother’s sermons and keeping her nose in a book. Many [...]



December 13th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment

Library Musings: R.I.P. …Or TheLibrarian gets Freaky

I love the Fall. It’s one of the things I miss most living in Southern Florida. No crisp days built for sweaters, no apple cider, no houses decked out in mums and corn stalks. It just doesn’t look right when it’s still 90 something out. So right about now I’m yearning for a little Fall [...]



September 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: R.I.P. Challenge | Leave a comment

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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This book is an original thriller with a taste of Sweden’s dirty not-so-little secrets the first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Mikael’s prospects appear bleak [...]



August 24th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | Leave a comment

Genuine Lies by Nora Roberts

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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: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment

Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Mlynowski

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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Short Stories, YA Lit | Leave a comment

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

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Willa Jackson left her hometown, Walls of Water, infamous. Revealing herself as the Jokester after 4 years of pranks. Willa left high school in handcuffs, unwittingly inspiring more than a few of her classmates to take more risks in their lives. Unfortunately, after failing out of college and the death of her father, Willa remembers her prankster [...]



May 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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I used to be someone.

Someone named Jenna Fox.

That’s what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.

More. But I’m not sure what…

Jenna Fox [...]



May 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment

You by Charles Benoit

This novel is short, sweet, and mysterious. Benoit has won an Edgar Award for a past novel and it shows. There is a tension within the novel that drags you onward. I was pleasantly surprised by the creativity in the construction and writing of the book. The plot opens with what appears to be a gruesome [...]



April 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: BookTalks, Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment