★★★★ ...her mystery books were wildly popular and sold millions of copies... Lana Brooks - brilliant writer and best selling author - is a fairly average person all in all. She has published 18 books already, writing several per year, so her schedule is pretty tight but the money is just rolling in. She uses a pseudonym… Continue reading One Star Review – R.E. Sargent
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Saint X – Alexis Schaitkin
★★ ½ Did you ever wish something terrible would happen to you so the world could see how strong you are? Alison was always the star of the family - beautiful, brilliant and absolutely perfect - and Claire idolized her. But one Caribbean vacation on the island of Saint X later, their family of four became a… Continue reading Saint X – Alexis Schaitkin
Comeback: A K-pop Novel – Lyn Ashwood & Rachel Rose
★★★★ Wide-eyed and pale, she looked at Emery as if he were a ghost, but she was the ghost - an apparition from Emery's past. Emery "M" Jung is one of five members of the insanely popular K-pop band, NEON. It still didn't feel real to Emery, that NEON was actually popular. Everyone thinks that he… Continue reading Comeback: A K-pop Novel – Lyn Ashwood & Rachel Rose
Lit for Little Hands: A Christmas Carol by Brooke Jorden & David Miles (Illustrator)
★★★★ ½ Bah! Humbug! A classic Christmas story re-imagined for the little ones. One of my family's Christmas traditions is to watch (yet another) version of A Christmas Carol (ironically, despite watching almost a dozen different versions, I have yet to read the original.) But let me tell you - this edition is abso-freaking-lutely adorable… Continue reading Lit for Little Hands: A Christmas Carol by Brooke Jorden & David Miles (Illustrator)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir – Jenny Lawson
★★★★★ In short? It is exhausting being me. Jenny Lawson (the Bloggess) has lit up the literary scene with her debut novel - Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Jenny lives the sort of life where... well... hmm... maybe you will just have to read this book yourself. I really don't think I have anything that can adequately sum… Continue reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir – Jenny Lawson
Monty and the Monster – Rhonda Smiley
★★★★ ½ ...I'm paralyzed with disgust as I stand before the ugliest house I've ever seen. Monty, his dog (Watson), his older brother (Kyle) and his dad have moved...again. And Monty is absolutely sick of it. He has to make new friends, deal with a new school and live in a new house. And of course, Kyle… Continue reading Monty and the Monster – Rhonda Smiley
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
★★★★ Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. Junior, a teenager on the Spokane Indian Reservation (the "rez"), spent his entire life trying to blend in. He was a smallish kid who used to have seizures. He was picked on and bullied almost constantly. And then...something snapped. There… Continue reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
Meet the Planets – John McGranaghan
★★★ Welcome to the first ever, Favorite Planet Competition... In this fun, short book, we see the planets as we've never seen them before. These planets have been around for billions of years ...and yet they have never been in a competition to figure out which of them is best. We go through every planet and… Continue reading Meet the Planets – John McGranaghan
Chemistry – Weike Wang
★★★★★ As a graduate student.... this one got to me. It was real. Painfully real. The burnout. The depression. The loss of feeling towards something you once loved. And yet, it was funny.A down-to-earth humor brought out in the darkest of times. I was constantly blown away by the accuracy of Wang's novel. There's so many times where I… Continue reading Chemistry – Weike Wang
Christmas Train (board book) – David Miles
★★★★★ All aboard the Christmas train! Hold your ticket tight. We'll count our way from 1 to 20 all throughout the night. Grab your hot chocolates - we are going for a wild ride! This Christmas train is going all through the village, and we are along for the adventure - counting all the fun things… Continue reading Christmas Train (board book) – David Miles
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