Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer Published by Fiction Studio Books Life without a mother is difficult for Apron (yes, Apron, it is sort of a long story). To make things worse, Apron’s father is marrying a woman who is nearly the textbook definition of an evil stepmother, and such a short time after his [...]
The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot Published by NAL Trade, an imprint of Penguin As girls, Eleanor and Marguerite are nearly inseparable, although much of their togetherness includes competition – particularly on Eleanor’s part as she attempts to keep up with her lovely and mild older sister. Unfortunately for Eleanor and Marguerite, fate does not [...]
Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay Published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin This is the second book in the new Library Lover’s Mysteries series. I previously reviewed the first book, Books Can Be Deceiving. When Carrie Rushton replaces Bill Sint as the president of the Friends of the Library, head librarian Lindsey Norris is [...]
We’re just going to pretend I didn’t spend a long time being excited about the fact that you can multiple the date (4) and the number of the month (3) together to get the two-digit representation of the year (12). Ahem. Moving on. So, I’ve been on Pinterest for a couple of months now, mostly [...]
Welcome to Saturday Story Spotlight, my feature where I discuss books my husband and I are reading with our son, Daniel. These are books that he, we, or all of us particularly enjoy. The Gingerbread Man illustrated by Karen Schmidt Published by Scholastic Paperbacks, an imprint of Scholastic I’m sure you all know the basics [...]
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons, narrated by Justine Eyre Published in audio by Blackstone Audio, published in print by Plume, an imprint of Penguin Synopsis: From the publisher: It’s the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life [...]
I think I might FINALLY be coming out of my pregnancy reading slump. Through the middle of February things were still very, very slow, but in the last 10 days of the month, my reading suddenly picked up (AND I got caught up on my unwritten reviews – amazing!). By the end of the month, [...]
Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner Published by Dial Press Trade Paperback, an imprint of Random House Vaclav and Lena are both the children of Russian immigrants, as well as being best friends. Vaclav and his parents are the closest thing Lena has to family; although she lives with her aunt, she barely meets Lena’s [...]
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung Published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin In every generation of Janie’s family, one sister is lost. Her aunt, for instance, was ostensibly kidnapped from her college dorm by North Koreans, never to be heard from again. Even worse, the family could not attempt to look for her, because [...]
Divergent by Veronica Roth Published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Beatrice Prior – who will soon reinvent herself as Tris – has never really fit in with her faction. She is just not Abnegation material. Luckily, in just a couple of days she and all the other sixteen-year-olds in this dystopian future [...]
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