Review: Pen & Ink

Pen & Ink by Isaac Fitzgerald | Website | and Wendy MacNanghton | Website | Twitter | Illustrated by Cheryl Strayed | Website | Publisher/Year: Bloomsbury | October 7th, 2014 Pages: 144 Series: Stand-Alone Genre: Non-Fiction Format: Hardback Source: Cincinnati Library Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful …

Review: Revived

Revived by Cat Patrick | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Read by Tara Sands Publisher/Year: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | May 1, 2012 Pages: 352 Series: Standalone Genre: YA | Sci-Fi Format: Audiobook Source: Overdrive Media Amazon | Goodreads   Summery (From Goodreads) It started with a bus crash. Daisy Appleby was …

Review: Finding Jesus

Finding Jesus by Winston Rowntree Publisher/Year: Three Rivers Press | October 28, 2014 Pages: 40 Series: Stand Alone Genre: Humor, Seek-and-Find Format: Hardback Source: From Publishers through Bloging for Books (Thanks!) Amazon | Goodreads   I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.  That did not sway my opinion in …

Check the Shelf Book Review: Spellcaster

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray | Website | Twitter Read by Khristine Hvam Publisher/Year: HarperTeen | March 5, 2013 Pages: 400 Audiobook Publisher: Harper Audio Time: 11 hours 9 min Series: Spellcaster Book 1 Genre: YA Paranormal Format: Audiobook Source: Borrowed from Overdrive Amazon | Goodreads     Summary (From Goodreads) When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s …

Bookish Belongings: Stocking Stuffers

    With Christmas one it’s way, I thought I’d make a list of stocking suffers.  Here’s some things I wouldn’t mind finding in mine. Matilda Mug Book Earrings Banned Books Sock   Library Card Stocks A Kiss Keychain Harry Potter Tights Gloves Book Tape Library Embosser Bookish Candles Exact Bookmark

Review: The Willoughbys

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry | Website Publisher/Year: Houghton Mifflin Company | March 31, 2008 Pages: 176 Series: Standalone Genre: Upper Elementary Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, …

Review: Alligent

Alligent by Veronica Roth | Website | Twitter | Publisher/Year: Katherine Tegen Books | October 22, 2013 Pages: 544 Series: Book three of the Divergent series Genre: YA Dystopian Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads     Summary (From Goodreads) The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered–fractured by violence and power …

Be Kind Please Rewind: November

  I don’t even think I remember most of the month of November, so this may be a challenge but here are my top three: 1)  I joined in with NaNoWriMo this year.  I haven’t done this officially since 2009, but I decided to give it a go this year.  Two days into it, I trashed …

Recently Reread: City of Light City of Dark

City of Light City of Dark by AVI Illustrator:  Brian Floca Publisher/Year: Scholastic, Inc | 1993 Pages: 192 Series: Stand Alone Genre: Middle Grade, Graphic Novel Format: Paperback Source: Owned Amazon | Goodreads Summery (From Amazon) Complications abound in a graphic novel related in brief narrative boxes plus dialogue (some of it in both Spanish …