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Jul 21, 2011 Things I Love

The ever growing TBR pile

Aye! My TBR pile runneth over. At the moment – it’s a bit overwhelming. Here’s the stack of freebies from RWA. And here are two other piles that I haven’t gotten to yet. That’s a total of thirty books!! 1.7333 books per week if I don’t add any more books to the pile for a year. Since I have a book obsession, that’s not a very likely prospect. Case in point -- here’s what came today from BAM.com. And it’s going straight to the top of the pile!!! Actually – it’s skipping the pile entirely. After

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Nov 2, 2010 Things I Love

Book Review: PERFECT CHEMISTRY by Simone Elkeles

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles will make you fall in love with contemporary YA. The story, told in alternating POV of Alex, a Latino member of a gang in the suburbs of Chicago and Brittany, the All-American girl who appears to have it all. For the first few chapters, I didn’t like Alex. He was arrogant and spiteful and don’t get me started on “the bet.” I liked how Brittany dished it right back to Alex and was compelled to keep reading to find out how everything would turn out. The book is

Oct 23, 2010 Things I Love

Book Review: THE DEATHDAY LETTER by Shaun David Hutchinson

Imagine a world where impending death was announced by a Deathday Letter. When it was your time to go, you’d receive a letter telling you that within twenty-four hours, you’d be dead. What would you do with that time? This book is about fifteen year old Ollie Travers and what he does with his last day. It’s morbidly hilarious with wonderful insight into an adolescent male mind. Which by the way is why it was on my To Read Pile. Remember how I need to work on “manning up” my male characters?