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Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N The premise of an arranged marriage between a company head and a clerk is a perfect fairytale, but Happy...

Sometimes coming into a story in progress can be a challenge. Brian K. Vaughn must be some master storyteller because I was hooked on the fi...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N I grew up watching the afternoon G.I. Joe cartoons in the glorious 80s and imagining my Barbies pair muc...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N   Author The Young Clementina is a beautifully written, classic story about the rightness of old-fashio...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N Kobo A charming book perfect for introducing French sounds and culinary traditions to young folk. Ther...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N Kobo I'm generally skeptical of "makeover" books. They feel too simplistic in that the be...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N Sensitive readers will want to skip this debut novel. The Panopticon isn't a horror or suspense sto...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N I read this concurrently with Avery . Given the similarities in violence and depravity and my general un...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N I read The Sweetest Dark in order to read this book, which was helpful factually but not emotionally. I...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N Given the number of YA books I've read this year, it's takes a lot to stand out from the paranor...

Synopsis: Goodreads Amazon   B&N Dance of the Red Death  is the conclusion to  Masque of the Red Death , which re-imagined Edgar Alla...

Links: Goodreads Amazon B&N Chuck Klosterman writes for The New York Times as "The Ethicist" and is an all-around pop cul...

Links: Goodreads Amazon Avery is about what love hath wrought, for good and ill. The people of Kaya are love-matched in pairs and when o...

Links: Goodreads Amazon Edgar Allan Poe would be pleased by Bethany Griffin's wonderfully gothic riff on his classic tale of madness ...

Links:  Goodreads   Amazon Marie Duplessis lived for 23 years in the early-1800's (the timeframe of  Les Misérables) . She grew up aba...

Synposis: Goodreads Amazon Vivian Worth is in danger of being unmarriageable unless she can get a man she's never met to agree to the...

Synopsis: Goodreads   Amazon Recommended for: people who like romantic spy adventures, Regency/Georgian/Napoleonic period When starting ...

Synopsis: Goodreads   Amazon The payoff of finding authors that make you want to read everything they write makes slogging through some ...

I have a strong aversion to starting series that are not completed because waiting for the next book will put me in an mental-emotional tail...

I think I'm pretty clear about how I feel about the New Adult/College Romance/Mature YA genre as it seems to be trending. Fortunately, T...

Synopsis: Oscar meets Iris and Eden, her brother, after listening to him play the organ at a church service. Oscar works at a nursing home a...

Book 1 of The Trylle Trilogy Synopsis: Wendy has moved to a new town, but there are already people who are far too interested in her. After...

Synopsis: Bad boy meets good girl and acts like a lunatic. Good girl wisely dates bad boy's best friend. DRAMA all over the place. Serio...

Synopsis: Isabel Spellman is now owner of her family's private investigation firm, which her parents intended for her...someday...and no...

Synopsis: Tess starts at a new school, an exclusive boarding school, Thorn Abbey. She's a smart but poor kid who looks like she is nev...

Synopsis: Middle school teacher, Erasmus Hobart, creates a successful time machine. He travels to medieval times to meet Robin Hood and see...

Synopsis Alera, heir to the patriarchal kingdom of Hytanica, is coming of age to marry and be crowned queen. Her father has chosen his succ...

Synopsis: Tucker, leader of a troupe of orphans in a small town, meets an unexpected benefactor at the bakery where she works and steals. Th...

Synopsis: Ciardis is a dirt-poor, half-gypsy laundress. She meets a glamorous geisha (called Companions) and is offered training to become o...

To review or not to review... I still read a lot these days - back to commuting - but while I enjoy the books I read, I'm not that often...

Isn't it is just like life: I'm reading more than ever, but I'm too busy/tired/asleep to blog about it? Commuting is perfect fo...

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs Rating: ***** I love being ahead of the curve. It pays to browse! Not only did I find some great used ...

Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf Rating: ***** Often you hear that a person, book, or show is witty, but it's loosely bandied prai...

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton Rating: *** I'm compulsive about continuing series and while the Borrowers are still charming, t...

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes Rating: *** I'm taking a break from MK's books for a bit. Not that this book wasn't good...

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes Rating: **** This book has the distinction of making me cry for the first time in ages. Rachel isn...

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Proposition by Judith Ivory Finished The Proposition by Judith Ivory Rating: ****½ Call me a believer and cue the Monkees music...

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes Rating: **** I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has its obvious moments, but is very s...

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton

Watermelon by Marian Keyes Rating: ***½ MK's debut novel is quite different from her last one , which I loved. However, I'm a wo...

Watermelon by Marian Keyes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer Rating: ****½ It's always gratifying when a writer gets better with successive works. The...

A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer Rating: **** A lovely bit of alternative reality period fantasy. This takes place in the very...

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald Rating: ****½ What a find! Some of my reading inspiration comes from a movie I may have seen that is b...

Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr Rating: ***½ Kerr's observant essays on children, the theatre, writing, and life as an...

Reader. Not exactly self-help, but certainly helpful. At some point, everyone gets into a reading rut or tends to choose from a favored ge...

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes Rating: ****½ This is my first MK book and I find that my impressions of an author evolves quite a b...

Books I bought this summer at library sales here and there. Sort of a warm-up for the annual Attic Sale dash in September where I get my ye...

What Your Handwriting Says About You by Mike Edelhart Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

Wicked by Gregory Maguire Rating: ***½ Strange, really bizarre novel. Fascinating fantasy, provoking moral discussion, huge scope, and ...

The Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel Rating: ***½ This Penn grad puts a whole new spin on the starving-student model. Like living on $10 ...

Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr The Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel

The Paid Companion by Amanda Quick Rating: **** This was a typical Quick novel, I'm learning. Strong, linguistically-blessed heroin...