Book Review: Nicole Peeler’s Tempest Reborn
Blondie’s gone, Anyan is trapped, but Jane will. Not. Give. Up. She and her friends form a crack squad of misfits and with lots of snacks, Jane sets out on her greatest adventure yet.
Month: June 2013
Book Review: Chris Crutcher’s Period 8
Telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don’t know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Book Review: Jill Shalvis’ Simply Irresistible
Maddie Moore has the chance to start over. Claiming her mother’s inheritance and convincing her sisters to join in this B&B adventure will open her up to love again.
Book Review: Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man
Nick and Nora Charles are a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Book Review: Katie Lane’s Going Cowboy Crazy
Faith Aldridge rides into Bramble, Texas, searching for answers and her long-lost twin sister, Hope. Only Faith is mistaken for long-gone Hope and do everything they can — rustling her car, spreading rumors like wildfire, and reining in some explosive secrets — to get “Hope” back together with Slate Calhoun.
Book Review: Jaci Burton’s Thrown by a Curve
As therapist for the St. Louis baseball team, Alicia Riley knows better, but the chemistry between them is charged. And Garrett figures there’s no better therapy than sex.
Book Review: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd’s Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. This useful book that is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.
Word Confusion: Access versus Excess
One can never have an excess of access to the good things in life in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Christina Lauren’s Beautiful Stranger
Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Dead Ever After
There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie—and could destroy her heart . . .