May 2013
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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
Genre: Psychological Thriller Rating: 4/5 Released: 5May2009 Pages: 368 Why I Read It: I had enjoyed Flynn’s other two books and thought I should read all 3.
On January 2, 1985, Libby Day runs away from her house as her two sisters and mother are brutally murdered. The only other Day child who makes it through that night is Ben, who is identified as the murderer by seven year...
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That awful moment when you remember that you just...
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The Time of My Life
by Cecelia Ahern
Genre: Irish Chick Lit Rating: 5/5 Released: 13Oct2011 Pages: 391 Format: Audiobook Why I Read It: I’m a long-time fan of Ahern’s work.
Cecelia Ahern is one of my favorite authors, and I do believe this is one of her best books yet. Lucy Silchester is a mess of a woman. Driving an old, beat-up car, living in a studio flat reeking of fish, working as a shoddy...
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre: Classic Fiction Rating: 3.5/5 Released: 10Apr1925 Pages: 180 Why I Read It: The movie hype had me wanting to refresh my memory of the storyline.
Nick Carraway is a Midwesterner who has recently arrived in New York City to pursue a career in bonds. With a distant cousin as his only relation in the city, he spends time with Daisy, her husband Tom, and their circle of...
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Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
Genre: Fictional Thriller Rating: 4.5/5 Released: 26Sep2006 Pages: 272 Why I Read It: Book Club
Camille is a journalist in the Windy City who receives an assignment to report on the murder of two young girls in her hometown of Wind Gap, MO. Despite coming from a family of wealth and prestige in the town, Camille has never felt at home with her overbearing mother and emotionally...
April 2013
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
by Jenna Jameson
Genre: Autobiography Rating: 4.5/5 Released: 17Aug2004 Pages: 592 Why I Read It: Who could resist a title like that?! Jenna Jameson is a world-wide star of the pornography industry, and this book is the story of how she got there. From the early loss of her mother, her emotionally-distant father, the steady stream of new and abusive step-mothers he invited into her life, the...
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
by Steve Harvey
Genre: Relationships/Dating Rating: 3.5/5 Released: 27Jan2009 Pages: 232 Why I Read It: Co-worker’s Recommendation
Steve Harvey has a vision: to see men and women in happy relationships. He knows it’s not easy: one of the biggest parts of his radio show are the “Strawberry Letters” submitted by frustrated women asking for relationship advice and clues as to how to get their men...
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
by Annabel Pitcher
Genre: Young Adult Rating: 4.5/5 Released: 29Sep2011 Pages: 211 Format: Audiobook Love David Tennant? Want to cry? Then have I got the perfect audiobook for you! Jamie is a ten years old and likens himself to the abandoned dogs on the SPCA commercials. He is the third-born child after a set of twins, one of which was killed by a bomb during a terrorist attack in London,...
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The Gift
by Cecelia Ahern
Genre: Christmas-Themed Chick Lit Rating: 2.5/5 Released: 20Oct2008 Pages: 305 Lou Suffern is your typical workaholic/egomaniac. When not at work (always the first in and the last to leave), he is plugged into his Blackberry or sleeping with his secretary. It’s almost easy to forget that he has a lovely wife and two beautiful children at home, as he is never there. With...
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Get Well Soon
Anna Bloom #1 by Julie Halpern
Genre: Young Adult Rating: 4/5 Released: 2Oct2007 Pages: 208 Format: Audiobook Reminds Me Of: It’s Kind of a Funny Story, a less angsty version of Thirteen Reasons Why
Anna Bloom has just been checked into a mental hospital. A high school girl dealing with body pressure and raging hormones (uh, and irritable bowel syndrome?), her parents have decided that her...
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The Eyre Affair
A Thursday Next Mystery (#1) by Jasper Fforde
Genre: Mystery Rating: 4/5 Released: 25Feb2003 Pages: 374 Format: Audiobook
I asked a few weeks ago about new audiobook ideas, and Alison recommended that I try Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime books. I did get them from the library, and I’m getting ready to read them (I promise!), but I couldn’t help but try his other book, The Eyre Affair, after...
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True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks
Genre: Romantic Fiction Rating: 2/5 Released: 11Apr2006 Pages: 465 Before last week, I was a 22 year old girl who had never read a Nicholas Sparks novel or, for that matter, seen one of the movie adaptations of his books. I know! People criticized me for it, and I almost felt like my woman card was going to be revoked or something. To remedy the situation, I bought a huge...
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Rating: 3/5 Released: 3Jan2012 Pages: 387 Format: Audiobook Reminds Me Of: Every other dystopian YA book I’ve read in the past few years: The Hunger Games, Divergent
Cinder takes place in New Beijing, a Chinese city of the future. Its protagonist, Cinder (duh), is a cyborg, a second-class citizen in society, who has a few limbs replaced by...
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the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot
and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
This is actually the most profound and appropriate literary allusion I’ve encountered so far this week.
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Until I Say Goodbye
by Susan Spencer-Wendel
Genre: Memoir Rating: 4.5/5 Released: 12Mar2013 Pages: 384 Format: Audiobook
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for this book! The drawing ends on April 17th! This memoir follows Susan Spencer-Wendel as she lives the last year of her life. Diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gherig’s disease), a virtual death sentence, Susan has decided to spend her last year “living with...
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Maine
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Genre: Fiction Rating: 3/5 Released: 14Jun2011 Pages: 388 Format: Audiobook Reminds Me Of: The Sisters, Girls in White Dresses
Maine tells the story of the Kelleher women: Irish Catholic matriarch Alice, daughter Kathleen, daughter-in-law Ann Marie, and granddaughter Maggie.
Alice, currently in her 80’s, knew when her sister died as a teenager that she would never be...
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March 2013
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Anonymous asked: I like your book reviews. :) I'd also like to write some good ones. Could you please give me some tips or ideas?
shes-exceptional asked: Hello! I'd like to personally thank you for introducing me to the Flavia de Luce series! I read your review of the 5th book, took an interest -- and now I am completely in love with Flavia! :)
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“The men never last. That was something they never told you when you were young...”
– Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
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Fair Game
by Valerie Plame-Wilson
Genre: Political Memoir Rating: 4/5 Released: 22Oct2007 Pages: 320 Format: Audiobook
Valerie Plame-Wilson became a spy for the United States Central Intelligence Agency soon after graduating from college and made a name for herself not only through her work as an Operations Officer but also her marriage to Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador and outspoken political...
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“We mean nothing… We will survive and continue to mean nothing. He will go back...”
– Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
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“It’s never the wedding dresses, you know. We keep those, too, but only...”
– Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
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Glaciers
by Alexis M. Smith
Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Released: 17Jan2012 Pages: 174 Reminds Me Of: The film “Amelie” and The Secret Life of Dresses This wisp of a book takes place over the course of a day in a woman named Isobel’s life. Raised in Alaska but resettled in Portland after her parents’ divorce, Isobel enjoys finding little treasures in the city: a quiet Chinese restaurant, the perfect...
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“It’s a strange product of infatuation… to want to tell someone about...”
– Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Genre: Mystery Rating: 4/5 Released: 6Nov1939 Pages: 259
Ten strangers are lured to an island never to leave again. Echoing the haunting nursery rhyme “Ten Little Indians,” each meets their fate in a sinister way after being accused of murder themselves. As the body count rises so do the suspicions, and the survivors are driven mad with fright. But at the end of the ordeal,...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
by Maria Semple
Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.5/5 Released: 14Aug2012 Pages: 326 Reminds me of: The Fault in Our Stars meets Arrested Development
Bee Branch is the remarkable daughter of two low-key geniuses. While her father’s computer brilliance and position in Microsoft is esteemed, her mother’s eccentricies make her the embarrassment of Seattle society. This book tells the story of Bee and her...
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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
by Seth Grahame-Smith
Genre: Historical Horror Rating: 1/5 Released: 2Mar2010 Pages: 336 Firstly, I would like to thank my work friend Rachel for gifting me this book for Christmas this past year. As a young boy growing up in the American frontier, Abraham Lincoln is not only destined to be one of the greatest presidents of the United States but also one of the greatest vampire hunters who ever...
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The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
Genre: Fiction Rating: 2.5/5 Released: 1Jul2007 Pages: 599 Format: Audiobook Reminds Me Of: Downton Abbey The House at Riverton is a story of secrets, family, duty, and loss that strongly mirrors Downtown Abbey. Grace Bradley is an old woman languishing in a retirement home and awaiting the end of her days when a film director steps in and gives her life a renewed purpose. A...
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I’ve been tutoring a wonderfully witty (but also angsty) 7th grade girl who is currently going through the whole “13 year old funk”. She is frustrated with the world and has no desire to read, but she desperately wants to improve her ELA grade (currently borderline failing). I’m trying hard to…
Scott Westerfeld’s series are really good. Uglies and Leviathan. His other...
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Help Audiobook Listeners!
Audible is having an AMAZING sale right now where you can buy an audiobook for, in many cases, less than one of their credits would cost. So I’m going crazy and trying to buy as many as possible. Does anyone have any good audiobook recommendations?
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The Liebster Blog Award
I was tagged by the wonderful Yousra from Bookshelves-Infinity for the Liebster Blog Award! Thank you so much!
Directions:
1. Thank you Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator and create 11 questions for your nominees.
3. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 11 blogs of 200 followers or...
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“Marriage will be the beginning of my adventure.”
– Kate Morton, The House at Riverton 