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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  BookTalk I want you to meet Charlie. Charlie is a little odd. A little different. We all know a Charlie…Well, we don’t know our Charlies, but we see them. The quiet kids, the filler kids, the Wallflowers. I guess we always think that these people are just quiet, maybe a little weird…Heck, to be honest [...]
August 18th, 2011 | Tags: abuse, coming of age, date rape, drugs, gay, homosexuality, molestation, relationships, stephen chbosky, Suicide, the perks of being a wallflower | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 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 It’s Kowalski Family Week! Day three of this Kowalski extravaganza focuses on Stacey’s latest title in the series Yours To Keep. If you’re just joining this party check out Exclusively Yours and Undeniably Yours for an introduction to the large, loving family that is the Kowalskis. I’m not gonna lie. This was by far [...]
July 28th, 2011 | Tags: army, fake fiance, Kowalski Series, relationships, romance, Series, Shannon Stacey | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review, Trashy Romance | 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 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 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 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 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 |
               
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