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CLOSED: Book Review & Giveaway: Spaceheadz Book #1, by Jon Scieszka

Spaceheadz, a middle reader book released by Simon & Schuster this summer, might just feature any 5th grade boy’s worst nightmare…OR dream come true. That’s because...

Book Review: Crossed Wires, by Rosy Thornton

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...

Book Review: The Servants’ Quarters, by Lynn Freed

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...

Book Review: Sundays at Tiffany’s, by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

It’s a love story with a twist. As a child, Jane was loved and protected more by her imaginary friend, Michael, than by her own powerful mother, Vivienne. But on her ninth birthday,...

Book Review: Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen

Fueled by Heather’s (of A High and Hidden Place) enthusiasm for author Sarah Addison Allen, I picked up Garden Spells over the Christmas break. It was the perfect book to cleanse my...

Book Review: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

Though I am a book lover through and through, I have very few author crushes. I think I just developed a bona fide one on author Neil Gaiman, though. I have never read anything by Gaiman...

Book Review: A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick

This is one of those rare books that has left me simultaneously passionate about its worth and unable to communicate the depth of my admiration. I devoured it in just two days –...

Review: The Rest of Her Life, by Laura Moriarty

The Rest of Her Life was not supposed to be next in my review pile. I received a copy – thanks to Book Club Girl! – in preparation for the live chat with author Laura Moriarty...

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