Book Review: An Untitled Lady

Book Review: An Untitled Lady

Posted January 15, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments

“Nash first saw her as an apparition, a gilt London trinket set down by mistake at a dusty crossroads three miles north of town.” I’m not a romance kind of girl.  It’s mushy gushy and not my style.  But I do like the regency era so thought I’d give An Untitled Lady a try.  It […]

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Waiting On Wednesday: Cress

Waiting On Wednesday: Cress

Posted January 15, 2014 by Whitney in Waiting on wednesday / 10 Comments

Hosted by Breaking the Spine Cress by Marissa Meyer Publication Date: February 4, 2014 Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard. In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to […]

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Review: March

Review: March

Posted January 13, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments

March is split in two, half being memories of years gone by, remembering the courting of Marmee, the births of their children and the March’s beliefs on slavery, even becoming conductors on the underground railroad. By putting their money where their mouth is, give a large sum of money to a fellow abolitionist to support […]

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A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

Posted January 10, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments

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

Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

Posted January 8, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments

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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Waiting on Wednesday: Still Life with Breadcrumbs

Waiting on Wednesday: Still Life with Breadcrumbs

Posted January 8, 2014 by Whitney in Waiting on wednesday / 4 Comments

Hosted by Breaking the Spine Still Life with Breadcrumbs  by Anna Quindlen Publication Date: January 28, 2014 Pre-Order: Amazon|Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made […]

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Seven 2014 Bookish Goals

Seven 2014 Bookish Goals

Posted January 6, 2014 by Whitney in Top Ten Tuesday / 7 Comments

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

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Munk Kidd

Posted January 6, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments

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

Slimed! by Matthew Klickstein

Posted January 3, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments

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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