So many genres, so little time
Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A… Continue reading Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart
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 on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in May 2009. A great autobiography set in The South filled with lasting friendships, first love, civil rights, and the heartbreak of… Continue reading In the Land of Cotton by Martha A. Taylor
Kit Kat is a fifteen-year-old adoptee who writes letters to her favorite literary character, Jane Eyre, as a means of surviving a violent childhood in Greece and a harrowing adoption in New York that requires her to silence her memories and her voice. In writing letters to Jane, Kit Kat discovers a connection to literature… Continue reading Dear Jane by Marina Delvecchio
Welcome to my blog stop on the fabulous mega blitz tour by R&R Book Tours for four outstanding YA books with GIVEAWAYS. Up first is my review on Hannah R. Goodman's Till It Stops Beating. There are more excerpts and giveaways for three other books below. Good luck and I hope you enjoy my review! Till… Continue reading Till It Stops Beating (The Maddie Chronicles #4) by Hannah R. Goodman
As long as Ellis Sayre could remember, he wanted to know his real parents. He was Native American and had the brown skin to prove it. Which exact tribe was a mystery; he didn’t have the luxury of that information. It was hard for him to gauge why he was the way he was. Awkward.… Continue reading Right Handed Lefty by Ryan Coughlin
"It is a poignant truth of our heedless youthful years, that the events and encounters of a single night can so alter the course of a young person's life that it will be changed forever". Benjamin Steiner, spoiled Columbia undergraduate, devout Orthodox Jew virgin meets two women who will change his life forever. P.T. Deighland,… Continue reading Stainer: A Novel of the “Me” Decade by Iolanthe Woulff
All of us have something about our childhood that stands out and Andie Mitchell is no exception. Food was her comfort and she found out at the age of 13 (weighing in at 200 lbs) that if she kept eating the way she had been, she would weigh close to 300 lbs by the time… Continue reading It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell
Sonia has learned that her father has lost his job and he isn't acting like himself. She wonders what he does in his study that makes him feel better. That's not the only change. Now that her father has lost his job, she has to go to the public middle school. Everyone at her private… Continue reading The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani
This is an American coming of age novel set during the Depression Era. It explains how hard people worked to make a living and the dreams they had to live better. The memorable establishments called the Bon Ton Hat Shop, Bauer’s Chop Shop and Delaney’s Saloon and Billiard Parlor are true to the era and… Continue reading Dance Night by Dawn Powell
Was Australia a haven for Nazi's? The book starts out with the story of a young, wounded soldier named Peter who deserts the German army in WWII to find refuge with a Polish couple. He is destined to leave Europe and moves to Australia to start a new life under a new name. This is… Continue reading Hunter by Campbell Jefferys