I won this book about a year ago from another blog’s giveaway, and for some reason have let it sit at the bottom of my To Be Read pile. Having now just finished it, though, I feel like shouting:  I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!  Times like this make a booklover crazy there isn’t someone sitting just across the room with [...]

The Book: Raven Stole the Moon, by New York Times Bestselling Author Garth Stein Synopsis: When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it’s a wrenching return to her past. The hometown of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay Resort, where Jenna’s young son, Bobby, disappeared [...]

I mentioned back in my “Prettiest Me” post (which detailed my new-found awareness of all things Beauty) a book I’ve been referring to often in my research.  It’s Nina Garcia’s The One Hundred:  A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own. This book is nearly perfect in every way.  It’s clear, straightforward, shows the [...]

Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2009)   Synopsis: For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf–her wolf–is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the [...]

Reviewing a book by Max Lucado tends to challenge all attempts at brevity; I find myself wanting to quote half the book, Lucado’s own words being much more powerful than my ability to summarize them. As it is, my copy of Lucado’s newest book, Fearless, is heavily tagged with sticky notes on all the passages [...]

Back in May I received an email with perhaps the most enticing subject line for an avid reader: “May I send you a book?” I had been wading through several review obligations and was already experiencing rapid detachment from this blog, but still, I was intrigued. The sender was author Rosy Thornton, and she asked [...]

Out of the blue one afternoon, I received notice that I had been accepted into the Amazon Vine Program. What’s curious is that I had never applied for the program, in fact I was only vaguely aware of it, but my interest was piqued. Scanning through a long list of book covers and brief synopses, [...]

Typing the very long title of this blog post was good practice in shaking off the cobwebs that have grown across this blog over the past few months. I am nearing the end of my “read for review” pile, and I feel like I’m slowly crawling out of a necessary hibernation. Soon I will be [...]

The difficulty in writing this review will be trying to avoid hyperbole. How can you gush and go on about a book without sounding insincere? (or a little bit goofy?) Oh, but I loved loved loved this book, hyperbole be darned. From Hachette Book Group’s full description of Galway Bay: In a rousing tale that [...]

Ted Dekker is a man with fans. Fans who blog. His name has been everywhere on the internet recently, and I was eager to get in on the fun with his newest release, Kiss, with co-author Erin Healy. From the Thomas Nelson website: Sometimes dying with the truth is better than living with a lie. [...]