Month: January 2014

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

January 10, 2014 Whitney Review 2 Comments
A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series growing up.  Twenty years later, I still set aside time for Hallmark’s Little House on the Prairie Marathons and am just as enraptured by her books as I was at age eight. It recently came out the Laura’s daughter Rose may have been the steamroller behind the […]

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Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

January 8, 2014 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

With the exclusion that Josephine was married to Napoleon Bonaparte I knew next to nil about this historical figure.  I instantly fell in love.  The descriptions were vivid, the story sweeping, and immediately rooted for Josephine.  She led a very interesting life with difficulties that could have caused her to roll into a ball and […]

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Seven 2014 Bookish Goals

Seven 2014 Bookish Goals

Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Read review books in timely manner and post review accordingly Schedule reviews Comment on five blogs a day Two must be on book reviews Read at least ten books on my tbr  that have been there for six months or more Read 100 books Life gets busy, […]

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Munk Kidd

January 6, 2014 Whitney Review 0 Comments
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Munk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees was a little to touchy  feely for me, all the hugging, praying,finding yourself crap was ya-ya sisterhood on a smaller scale.  I found it extremely predictable i.e. Lily’s mother living with the “calender girls” May, June and August ten years prior. I really had to plow my way through the […]

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Slimed! by Matthew Klickstein

January 3, 2014 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Slimed! by Matthew Klickstein

I am a child of the 90s.  I grew up on Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All and Double Dare, in other words, I watched Nickelodeon.  Therefore, upon seeing Slimed, childhood nostalgia kicked in. Slimed is told in a segment of interviews from Actors, Producers and all the dreamers behind the scenes.  I found the order […]

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Christmas in New Orleans

Christmas in New Orleans

Happy New Year everyone!  My family got back from Christmas in New Orleans last night, after a long day of travel, road tripping it with my Grandfather.  Snow and nasty weather almost inhibited our travels, but decided to brave it out and stopped outside of Memphis when the sky began to look ominous.  Fifteen hours […]

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My Life According To The Books I Read In 2013

January 1, 2014 Whitney Meme 1 Comment
My Life According To The Books I Read In 2013

The new year is approaching, and I’m summing it up with a meme  hosted by The Happily Ever After… entitled My Life According To The Books I Read In 2013 Describe yourself: The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon How do you feel:  Fairest by Gail Carson Levine Describe where you currently live: By the Shores of Silver Lake […]

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