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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 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 Review: The layered tales in The Red Garden start as magical stories and culminate in a history of a town full of depth and feeling. It’s wonderful to see how stories from the beginning of the collection end up mentioned less and less realistically, less and less clearly, until they are part of the collective vocabulary of [...]
June 6th, 2011 | Tags: Alice Hoffman, Literature, magical realism, relationships, Review, romance, Short Stories, The Red Garden | Category: Adult Lit, Review | Leave a comment BookTalk Clay Jensen comes home from school and finds a package waiting for him…He’s excited…Nothing like an unexpected package – with no return addresss – to make your day. What Clay finds inside is a shoebox full of cassette tapes. What he hears when he inserts the first tape is the voice of Hannah [...]
June 4th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, Jay Asher, Review, Suicide, Thirteen Reasons Why, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk 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: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, friendship, love, magical realism, mystery, relationships, Review, romance, Sarah Addison Allen, Suspense, The Peach Keeper | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment So these 3 were the tough reads. Without fail Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, and Lover Enshrined were readers least favorite books of the series. After falling madly in love with the first 3 books I’ll admit I was almost scared to tackle them. But the rave reviews of Ward’s latest titles kept me going. Even if [...]
May 17th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, J. R. Ward, Lover Enshrined, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Review, Series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Vampires | Category: Adult Lit, Review, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment I have fallen and I can’t get up. Because of my recent desire for non-YA books and my refusal to pay for new titles I resorted to the wait-list on my nook. I found Dark Lover by J. R. Ward. Then I fell…hard…like, I’m-on-the-bathroom-floor-need-a-button hard. Seriously, 3 books in 3 days hard. I love my trashy romances. They [...]
May 6th, 2011 | Tags: Dark Lover, J. R. Ward, Lover Awakened, Lover Eternal, Lover Revealed, paranormal, Paranormal Romance, relationships, Review, romance, Series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Vampires | Category: Adult Lit, Review, Trashy Romance | Leave a comment |
               
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