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August 28, 2020
Flashback Friday: Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Genre: Non-fiction, Parenting, Feminism Blurb (Goodreads): Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast… Continue reading Flashback Friday: Cinderella Ate My Daughter
August 27, 2020
Release Blitz: Conscience
Congratulations to author Jonathan Pongratz on the release of his latest short story, Conscience! Here’s an exclusive excerpt and book details! Conscience Publication Date: August 27th, 2020 Genre: Sci-Fi/ Short Story Rory Bennels lives in a world ruled by a business entity known as the Corporation. For years he’s executed cerebral uploads for the recently… Continue reading Release Blitz: Conscience
August 26, 2020
Book Review: The Night Circus
Genre: Fantasy, Romance Publication Info: September 2011, 391 pages Blurb (Goodreads): The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only… Continue reading Book Review: The Night Circus
August 24, 2020
Book Review: Wilder Girls
Genre: Young Adult, Horror, LGBTQ+ Publishing Info: July 2019 by Delacorte Press, 357 pages Blurb (Goodreads): It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began… Continue reading Book Review: Wilder Girls
August 21, 2020
Flashback Friday: Vampire Academy
It’s another Flashback Friday where I pull up an old book review. It’s rough, but here it is. I read these between May 2010 and January 2011. They were released August 2007 – December 2010. So, here’s my unedited (it needs editing) review from my original book review blog from back in 2011. Synopsis: This… Continue reading Flashback Friday: Vampire Academy
August 19, 2020
Book Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Publication Info: July 2020, MacMillan Young Listeners Blurb (Goodreads): There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it’s not just… Continue reading Book Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn
August 17, 2020
Book Review: Impersonation
Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publication Information: August 18, 2020 by Algonquin, 336 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and… Continue reading Book Review: Impersonation
August 14, 2020
Flashback Friday: Fade
I thought it’d be fun to pull up some of my old reviews from when I first started my blog over on Blogger. This one was originally published in March of 2011. Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Publication Info: February 2009 by Simon Pulse, 248 pages Blurb (Goodreads): SOME NIGHTMARES NEVER END. For Janie and… Continue reading Flashback Friday: Fade
August 13, 2020
Book Review: The Summer We Turned Thirteen
Genera: YA coming of age Published June 13, 2019, 507 Pages Blurb (from Goodreads): Harlee Ramirez and James Whitmire have been best friends since they were nine years old. Harlee is bold and brazen, while James is shy and reserved. In some cases, such opposite personalities may repel, but not in theirs. Their differences make… Continue reading Book Review: The Summer We Turned Thirteen
August 12, 2020
Book Review: The Patient
Genre: Horror Publication: July 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 224 pages Blurb (Goodreads): In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to… Continue reading Book Review: The Patient
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