Since the book Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins seems to be all the rage now in young adult fiction thought I’d share one of the book trailers on it. Some even think it might be the next “Twilight”…will you be sucked in?
Sep 302010
Sep 282010
You can learn a lot of information about someone without ever saying a word, just by paying attention to the things on her bookshelves, on her desk, or on her walls, or to the things she’s wearing. Even our cars tell a piece of our story. What are you currently reading? Open up to a [CONTINUE READING]
Staying in is the new going out. Media like The New York Times and ABC News report a return to old-fashioned, low-cost game night, and retailers have seen sales of games rise 20 percent in the last year. Now comes The Ultimate Gamebook for Grown-ups, an extraordinary collection of more than 300 games for friends [CONTINUE READING]
One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It’s the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she’s captivated. On [CONTINUE READING]
Sep 232010
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Sep 212010
And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive. What are you currently reading? Open up to a random page and leave us a 2-line sentence teaser for today’s Tuesday Book Tease!
Sep 212010
Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Bermudaonion Weblog. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who are participating like me in [CONTINUE READING]
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (he wrote Coraline) is an interesting youth fiction that my son and I are reading together. It the story about a boy who’s family was murdered and then raised by the dead…
Sep 152010
It’s the week we appreciate the wonderful book bloggers out there and today we’re all talking about that unexpected book or genre we tried due to the influence of another blogger. What made us cave in to try something new and what was the experience like? For me that book was the Holly’s Inbox series. [CONTINUE READING]
Sep 142010
It’s the week we appreciate the wonderful book bloggers out there. Today we get to share an interview with a fellow book blogger. I got the awesome privelege of almost meeting but sharing some laughs with book blogger/author Maria Romana from http://suspense-books.com, which used to be known as http://contemporary-romance-books.com. Leave it to two moms to [CONTINUE READING]
