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August 11, 2020
Books to movies
There is nothing quite as exciting as when I get the news that one of my favorite books (there’s a lot of them) is being turned into a movie or a TV show. I begin researching everything I can find. How are they doing it? Who’s writing the script? Who is playing the characters? Are… Continue reading Books to movies
August 10, 2020
Book Review: What You Wish For
Genre: Chick Lit, Rom Com Publication Info: July 2020 MacMillan Audio Blurb (Goodreads): Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas—the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his… Continue reading Book Review: What You Wish For
August 7, 2020
Book Review: The High Tide Club
Genre: Women’s lit, Mystery Publication Information: May, 2018 from St. Martin’s Press, 470 pages Blurb (Goodreads): When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never… Continue reading Book Review: The High Tide Club
August 6, 2020
Book Review: Wrong Place, Right Time
Genre: Contemporary Romance Published May 1, 2020 by Roshan Publishing, 129 pages Blurb (Goodreads): All Anna Belko wants is a quiet cup of tea. For a young garment factory worker in the uneasy city of Dor, such moments of peace are few and far between. When she stops by a little cafe called Oxsana’s on… Continue reading Book Review: Wrong Place, Right Time
August 5, 2020
Book Review: The Shadows
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery Publication Information: July 2020 by Celadon Books Blurb (Goodreads): You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile–always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder… Continue reading Book Review: The Shadows
August 3, 2020
Book Review: Bringing Down the Duke
Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction Publication Info: Sept 2019, 368 pages Blurb (Goodreads): England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement.… Continue reading Book Review: Bringing Down the Duke
July 31, 2020
Book Review: A Song Below Water
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Contemporary Blurb (Goodreads): Tavia is already at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society that wants to keep her kind under lock and key. Never mind she’s also stuck in Portland, Oregon, a city with only a handful of black folk and even… Continue reading Book Review: A Song Below Water
July 29, 2020
Book Review: His & Hers
Genre: Mystery, Thriller Publication Information: July 28, 2020 by MacMillan Audio Blurb (Goodreads): There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying. Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She’s worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC’s lunchtime… Continue reading Book Review: His & Hers
July 27, 2020
Book Review: Thomas Wildus and the Wizard of Sumeria
Genre: Middle Grade, fantasy Publishing Information: May 2020 by Elandrian Press, 370 pages Blurb (Goodreads): A boy discovering his destiny. An ancient object of unspeakable power. An impenetrable web of deception. It’s been three months since Thomas and his friends faced off against the enigmatic Arius Strong in an epic fight for the future of… Continue reading Book Review: Thomas Wildus and the Wizard of Sumeria
July 24, 2020
Book Review: The Dutch House
Genre: Fiction Publication Information: Sept 2019, by Harper – 337 pages Blurb (Goodreads): At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch… Continue reading Book Review: The Dutch House
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