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• Review: I Take You by Eliza Kennedy

  

  Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant,... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Swerve by Vicki Pettersson

  

  It’s high summer in the Mojave Desert and Kristine Rush and her fiancé, Daniel, are en route from Las Vegas to Lake Arrowhead, California, for the July Fourth... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• *Virtual Book Tour Stop* Review: A Fearful Lie by Jean Fournier Johnson

  

  By the time Gloria sees the little boy step out from between the parked cars it is too late. She hears the sickening thud as her vehicle strikes his body. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy

  

  This is the story of Sarah Brown daughter of abolitionist John Brown. She is one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor

  

  Eighteen-year-old Ada Concannon has just been hired by the respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Today’s Teaser Tuesday sentence come from The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain. This is... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Hypnotist by Gordon Snider (*TLC BOOK TOUR*)

  

  In 1906, San Francisco has reached the peak of its golden age. Fortunes have created a society that attracts European opera singers and cordon bleu chefs. It... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

  

  The Luckiest Girl Alive was our pick for the month of June in my monthly book club. I had heard about the buzz regarding the book, the comparisons to Gone Girl... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Dead Secret by Richard Milton

  

  Tony is bewildered by the horrifying secrets he begins to unravel. Can human heads really be used to predict the future? Who would pay $7 million for the skull... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Unknown Sender by Ryan Lanz

  

  Jessica’s world revolves around studying at college and affording prepackaged meals, which leaves little time for socializing. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Today’s Teaser Tuesday sentences were extracted from Sarah McCoy’s historical fiction, Th... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

  

  The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Today’s Teaser Tuesday sentence was extracted from Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

  

  In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck’s father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers’ Project... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teaser Tuesday

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm where anyone can play along. Today’s Teaser Tuesday sentences were extracted from the book The Bone Season. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Beautiful Blogger Award

  

  I’m so happy to have received another award. I’d like to thank Ajoobacats Blog for nominating my blog for The Beautiful Blogger Award. I really enjoy and... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Lichgates (The Grimoire Saga #1) by S.M. Boyce

  

  When Kara Magari uncovers a secret door in the middle of the forest, she discovers (and trips through) a portal to a hidden world full of terrifying things:... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

  

  The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE