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Review of a Marxist critique of the fashion industry--which is a lot more interesting than that may sound.http://www.skjam.com/2014/02/16/book-...
A review on a murder mystery set in a village where Olympic skiing trials are being heldhttp://sportsbookguy.blogspot.com/201...
Review for Merlin's Children by Megan Joel Petersonhttp://bookwyrming-thoughts.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-merlins-children-by-megan-joel-peterson.html
Have you checked out COYER Challenge yet? It's a month of cleaning out your e-reader of FREE, Nearly Free and Galley Books.
but it must be an ebook.
Today I posted my Goals for the challenge and all the books I plan to read.
Check out what books I picked and you still have plenty of time to sign up.
We had so much fun last year, twitter parties, Giveaway and would love for you to join us!!!
http://www.becausereading.com/march-2...
The Feb. 17th edition of The Weibblog Twitter News Round-up is now online! Today’s top stories are from Thomas Perkins, Greg Weisman, Rebecca Scarberry, & more! Very excited about Greg Weisman's new book, "Rain of the Ghosts!"http://weibblog.wordpress.com/2014/02...
Lots going on today at The Book Review! I have the cover reveal for Last of the Red-Hot Cowboys
and the VBT and Giveaway for Dakota Heat
The Dakota Series- Check it all out at http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
Just read this amazing paranormal romance. Wanna know which one, check out my latest post!http://imlovingbooks.blogspot.nl/2014...
Happy reading
I made a new feature on my blog where I share my book photoshttp://ashlyhbooks.blogspot.com/2014/...
BOOK REVIEW AND EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Kill Your Boss by Shane KuhnThe book is a wicked mix of Dexter meets The Office, a lot of fun to read and to write about, plus the author is a genuinely nice guy!
Thea @ Gizzimomo's Book Shelf <- Follow to the link to the review!
Blog Tour & Giveaway: Past Imperfect (Perfect #2) by Alison G. Baileyhttp://sofialovesreading.blogspot.gr/...
Just discovered a great readathon that's going on this week. Check it out and participate!http://imlovingbooks.blogspot.nl/
Happy reading!
A double dose of mystery and suspense to at The Book Review. Know When to Runspotlight and review- and The Shadow PrincessThe Shadow Princess spotlight and review at http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
A girl doesn’t read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
The Beginning: I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
This was a disappointment. I adore the movie. If I ever did a top 20 movies, this one would be on my list. It’s the ultimate romantic, feel-good movie without being sickly sweet. It’s just amazing and will always have a special place in my heart. I went to see it at the cinema with Mr. Boyfriend years ago. The romantic and life-affirming atmosphere affected us both a lot. We took a walk through a park even though my heels were killing me (yes, I wore the heels in the picture above), I got a well-deserved foot-bath and we mixed cocktails late into the night. It was one of those dates you know you’ll never forget.
I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Naturally, I expected something equally amazing from the book. Or almost as amazing. In fact, I would have settled for just being entertained. Which I wasn’t. I couldn’t find the magic. There were some great one-liners worthy of Oscar Wilde, and I liked the cute and smart dialogue. But I couldn’t find the soul of the story. The magical atmosphere was gone. Scenes form the movie that took my breath away or made me laugh out loud, left me merely shrugging an “Oh, well”. In fact, I found myself bored by this book, which took my surprise.
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
I got nostalgic and found the opening scene of the movie on YouTube. I need to watch this movie again very soon.
By reading this book, I get to check off ‘classic’ in my reading challenge.
For more book talk, please stop by The Bookworm's Closet
Review: Lichgates by SM Boycehttp://bookwyrming-thoughts.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-lichgates-by-sm-boyce.html
Have at last updated my blog. At lot has been happening and a lot of progress has been made!http://jgswritinganovel.blogspot.co.uk/
REVIEW - The Cowboy Lassos A Bride (The Cowboys of Chance Creek #6) by Cora Setonhttp://mrsbbooks.blogspot.com/2014/02...
Not blogging books today but about the OlympicsThe Netherlands ~ Tiny Country Big in Speed Skating: http://icequeensbookshelf.blogspot.nl...
White Space by Ilsa J Bick Review – Confusing, creative realities
http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2...
I've just blogged a brief update on where I'm up to in the final novel of the Elements of Power series, Air. It also features a few facts about the book and what readers can expect: http://heatherfjames.blogspot.co.uk/2...
Just reviewed Soul Beach book 1
All the reasons why it didn't work for me.
http://offbeat-ya.blogspot.it/2014/02...
New Post entitled "REMEMBER: Book Reviewers Are on Youtube!" This article's all about Book Vloggers and why Self-Publishers should definitely check out Booktubers to help promote their work:http://weibblog.wordpress.com/2014/02...
New review: Wind Chime Cafe by Sophie Moss! I loved this book so much. :) :)
http://skizzles22hu.blogspot.com/2014...
Reviewing Jeff Vandermeer's "Wonderbook" over at the blog:- http://fallintofiction.blogspot.co.uk...
Review of a book on the 1972 US Olympic Hockey team that won the silver medalhttp://sportsbookguy.blogspot.com/201...
Review:
Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter (For Me #3) by Cynthia Edenhttp://sofialovesreading.blogspot.gr/...
Blog Tour: The Polaris Uprising - Review + Giveawayhttp://bookwyrming-thoughts.blogspot.com/2014/02/blog-tour-the-polaris-uprising-by-jennifer-ibarra-review-and-giveaway.html
Book review of Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden:I would recommend this book to: Anyone interested in the Harlem Renaissance – but who are not too familiar with it.
I quite liked the idea for this book: We follow Easter, a Harlem Renaissance writer, on her quest from Georgia to Harlem and back again. Easter meets and loves many people, has her heart broken more than once and tries settling down in many places. The one constant thing in Easter’s life is her writing.
Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
It’s a very short book (the audio is only 6 hours), and it seemed crammed and rushed. There was no time to dwell on the story and the characters, the plot just moved on to something else as soon as the points were made. To me, it’s one of those books where proving a point overrules literary quality. It felt more like a story from the author’s intellect than from her heart. And I couldn’t feel Easter as a real character, she rather seemed like a symbol. Like The Help, I felt that Glorious could just as well have been a story written for a class on the Harlem Renaissance, a story that neatly sums up the most important issues, name-drops a bit and which isn’t too long.
This is book #8 in my 2014 Reading Challenge.
For more reviews and book talk, please visit my blog The Bookworm's Closet
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