Check the Shelf Book Review: The Glass Magician

The Glass Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg | Website | Twitter Publisher/Year: 47 North | November 4, 2014 Pages: 222 Series: The Paper Magician Trilogy Book 2 Genre: YA Urban Historical Fantasy Format: E-Book Source: Publisher through Netgalley (Thanks!) Amazon | Goodreads   I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest …

Be Kind Please Rewind: January

1)  Two work trips: I kicked off the new year with a trip to Atlanta for the passion conference.  It was our adult creative planning team (mostly) that went.  It was a great time meeting new people and started some good discussions among our team.  My second trip was a week ago to Chattanooga where …

Stacking the Shelves: January

Stacking the shelves is hosted over at Tanga’s Reviews Oh Book Outlet, you stumbling block.  I’ve been wanting some easier reads and book outlet had a sale, which as you can see, I didn’t pass up.  The top book was an ARC I got and loved.  more to come on that next month.  but the …

Versus: The Giver

    Verses is where I put two mediums of the same story against each other IMDB  |  Goodreads First Off: the spoiler free points I read the giver a couple years back and loved it.  Somehow I was never required to read the book in school, but if I had known how great it would …

Check the Shelf Review: Stitching Snow

Stitching Snow  by R.C. Lewis Read By: Mia Barron Publisher/Year: Disney-Hyperion | Octoberr 14, 2014 Audio Publisher/Year: Recorde Books | October 14, 2014 Pages: 336 Series: Stand Alone Genre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi, Retelling, Format: Audiobook Source: Publisher through Librarything (Thanks!) Amazon | Goodreads   I recieved this book from the publisher in exchange for an …

Check the Shelf Review: The Great Good Thing

The Great Good Thing  by Roderick Townley Publisher/Year: Atheneum Books | May 1st, 2001 Pages: 232 Series: The Sylvie Cycle Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade Format: Hardback Source: Cincinnati Library Amazon | Goodreads   Summary (From Goodreads) d””Rawwwwk!” Reader!” screams an orange bird. “Booook open!” groans a frog. Then the sky lifts away and …

Bookish Belongings: Apps

So this month’s bookish belongings is all about apps.  I don’t know about you, but I’d be lost without my phone and clouds.  There are so many apps out there that help with reading and bookish things, so I thought I’d share what I use. Reading Hoopla– This is a service through your library, so …

What I Remember Book Review: Splintered

Splintered  by A.G. Howard Publisher/Year: Amulet Books | January 1, 2013 Read by: Rebecca Gibel Pages: 400 Audio Publisher: Blackstone Audio Time: 12 hours 38 min Series: Splintered Series Book 1 Genre: YA, Fantasy, Retelling Format: Audiobook Source: Cincinnati Library through Overdrive Amazon | Goodreads I read this book before I started blogging, so this …

Tiny Tales Review: All about Colors

So my confession of the day is: I like stalking children’s pictures books.  I unfortunately don’t have the money to buy all the ones that I think are awesome, but I like to keep up with them since I work with kids birth through 5th grade.  So here are some books I recently found with …