Title: The Interestings Authors: Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Riverhead Books, published by the Penguin Group Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 9781594488399 Synopsis from Goodreads: The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these charactersContinue reading “Review: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer”
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Review: We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt
Advanced copy provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Title: We Are the Goldens Author: Dana Reinhardt Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Publication Date: May 27, 2014 ISBN: 9780385742573 Synopsis from Goodreads: Nell knows a secret about her perfect, beautiful sister Layla. If she tells, it could blow their world apart.When Nell and Layla wereContinue reading “Review: We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt”
Top Ten Tuesday
It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday. Welcome! This weeks topic is one I had to think about for a little while: top ten books about friendships. Now it isn’t because I don’t read books about friends, but more often than not, I find that the novels I pick up are about family relationships,Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Review: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Title: The Enchanted Author: Rene Denfeld Published by: HarperCollins Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-06-232333-0 Summary from Goodreads: The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes andContinue reading “Review: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld”
Top Ten Tuesday
This week’s top ten list is a huge challenge for me. Sure, I read A LOT! But it’s so difficult to pick out ten books that stick to this weeks topic. The top ten topic for this week is: top ten of the most unique books I’ve ever read. Of course, most books tend toContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Review – Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Title: Allegiant Author: Veronica Roth Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, imprint of HarperCollins Date Published: 2013 ISBN: 9780062024060 In this final instalment in the Divergent series the world we’ve learned about, the restricted world in which Tris has grown up, suddenly expands and what the characters believed to be true about their lives crumbles around them. AsContinue reading “Review – Allegiant by Veronica Roth”
Review – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitgerald
Title: “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” Author: Therese Anne Fowler Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Date Published: 2013 ISBN: 978-1-250-02866-2 Fowler’s novels tells the story of young Zelda Sayre through her whirlwind romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald, their marriage, and their eventual demise. Zelda is young, beautiful, and reckless whenContinue reading “Review – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitgerald”
Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer
Title: Cress Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Feiwel and Friends, imprint of Macmillan Date Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-312-64297-6 In the third instalment of The Lunar Chronicles series, we meet Cresent Moon, aka Cress, a lunar girl who’s been held captive in a satellite orbiting Earth for seven years and has been forced to work as aContinue reading “Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer”
Review: Libba Bray’s The Diviners
Title: The Diviners Author: Libba Bray Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Date Published: 2012 (hardcover), 2013 (paperback) Libba Bray, the author of the Gemma Doyle series (a series that I was complete obsessed with in high school and still love to this day), has begun a new series,Continue reading “Review: Libba Bray’s The Diviners”
Review: Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird
Title: Boy, Snow, Bird Author: Helen Oyeyemi Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc. Date Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-14-318743-1 Released on Monday of this week, Boy, Snow, Bird, a postmodern retelling of the classic Snow White, features Boy Novak who we meet as a fifteen-year-old who is subject to the violence of anContinue reading “Review: Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird”
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