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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Buy on Amazon Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures, Book 1) By: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Released On: December 2009 ISBN: 0316077038 Genre: YA, Paranormal Pages: 592 Facebook Fanpage: HERE Series Website: http://www.casterchronicles.com/ Author’s Website: http://www.kamigarciamargaretstohl.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/kamigarcia http://twitter.com/mstohl Recommendable for people …

July Book Club – A Wrinkle in Time

This month’s featured book is A Wrinkle in Time.  I remember reading this in school, but I don’t remember ANYTHING about it, so I thought I would revisit the book!  Join me in July… Buy on Amazon A Wrinkle in Time (Special Teacher’s Edition with Bonus Material) By: Madeleine L’Engle …

June Book Club and Give A Way! – Beautiful Creatures

  Join us in June as we read Beautiful Creatures, and you can even enter to win a copy! Yep I’m giving away one paperback copy of this book! Buy on Amazon Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures, Book 1) By: Kami Garcia Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Released …

March 2011 Book Club

  The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer By: Lucy Weston 143919033X Published by: Gallery Genre: Pages: 320 Author’s Website: n/a Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lucy.weston.vampire FAQ: Lucy Weston was a character in Bram Stokers Dracula. BRIEF SYNOPOSIS: Sovereign Power. Eternal Pleasure. Revealed at last in this new vampire saga for …

February 2011 Book Club

  In the Woods By: Tana French 0143113496 Published by: Penguin (Non-Classics) Genre: Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://tanafrench.com/ Author’s Twitter: Synopsis {from the author’s site} As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three …

January 2011 Book Club

This months book club choice was a recommendation from my “Auntie”.   Like me, she enjoys reading, so when I asked if anyone had read anything good lately she told me to come and get this book.  She claims SHE loved it.  It’s a stretch away from my usual horror/thriller picks, …

December 2010 Book Club

Last months book club was a huge success!  I loved the book, and especially love that a few folks joined me in reading and we had some great discussions on Skype and FaceBook!  Reading, it seems is becoming a forgotten past-time.  You would think it would be in full bloom …

November 2010 Book Club

Well, last months book pick for me was a big fat FAIL.  I just could NOT get into it.  I think I got around 200 pages in before I gave up.  Again.  For the FOURTH time.  LOL!!!  This month WILL be better!  I know, because I have been DYING to …

October 2010 Book Club

So I thought it would be fun to start a monthly book club.  I’ve tried before and never really had any participation, but I’ve never really tried it from a blog only in forums.  Book Clubs are pretty simple.  Everyone reads the same book and chats about it.  See easy. …

Brisingr: Day 5

Today is day 5 reading Brisingr, by Christoper Paolini. Still not turning cartwheels at the sheer joy and excitement of reading this one. Alas, my update: