Wonder Featured
Book Review, Children's Fiction, Family Relationships, NetGalley, Random House, YA Fiction

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid…I know ordinary kids don’t make other kids run away screaming in playgrounds.  I know ordinary kids don’t get scared at wherever they go.  My name is August, by the way, I won’t describe what I look like.  Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August may not look… Continue reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Journey to her Dreams
Australia, Book Review, Contemporary, Ireland, Romance

Journey to Her Dreams by Iris Blobel

Hollie has a great life in Tasmania, Australia living with her father, Murray, on their farm.  She has a wonderful and supportive group of friends and has met the man of her dreams.  However, her dreams are not all good.  She keeps dreaming of a woman presumably in Ireland who is unhappy and being abused… Continue reading Journey to Her Dreams by Iris Blobel

Saving June Featured
Book Review, Harlequin Books, NetGalley, Suicide, YA Fiction

Saving June by Hannah Harrington

To believe so concretely that there's someone--something--out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.  I've never believed in anything the way Aunt Helen believes in God. Harper has lost her sister, June, to suicide.  Her big sister, the golden one, the one that did no wrong, as opposed… Continue reading Saving June by Hannah Harrington

He Died With His Eyes Open Featured
Book Review, Crime Noir, Mystery, NetGalley, Series

He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Book 1) by Derek Raymond

I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers.  I first posted this review in February 2012.  "He Died with His Eyes Open" is a series and is one of the first noir crime books I read, and… Continue reading He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Book 1) by Derek Raymond

Book Review, Nonfiction, Travel, Work

50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man’s Journey of Discovery Across America by Daniel Seddiqui

In 2008, Daniel Seddiqui was a down and out college graduate looking for a job and living with his parents in California.  The job rejections came in one after another and he didn't know where to turn.  His parents weren't helping.  They thought he wasn't trying hard enough.  So one day after another rejection, Daniel… Continue reading 50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man’s Journey of Discovery Across America by Daniel Seddiqui