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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere by John Gregory Brown
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere features a former teacher fleeing the destruction of Hurricane Katrina who ends up at a roadside motel in a fictional town in Virginia. While there, we learn that Henry Garrett is fleeing not only the hurricane, … Continue reading
Posted in book club reads, Challenges, Contemporary, Fiction
Tagged book club, challenges, local author, Southern literature
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Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood’s End was sent my way by my college-aged son to whom it was recommended by a friend who read it for a poli-sci class. We both struggled a bit to get into it, but he ended up loving it. Me, not … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Creepy/Weird, Sci-Fi
Tagged challenges, creepy/weird, Sci-Fi, ugly covers
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming has been winning all sorts of awards (Newbery and National Book Award). It depicts a young black family’s moves from Ohio to South Carolina to New York City amid segregation and racial violence. Woodson also tells the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, poetry
Tagged Brown Girl Dreaming, challenges, Jacqueline Woodson, poetry
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The Mermaid’s Sister by Carrie Anne Noble
I read this for my challenge book with non-human characters. This is the story of babies left with a childless old healer woman on a mountaintop. The woman’s name is Verity, and as one might expect, she can tell no lies. One … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Children's, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, NaNoWriMo, Paranormal, Young Adult
Tagged Carrie Anne Noble, challenges, fiction, mermaids, NaNoWriMo, The Mermaid's Sister
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Oh, I liked this one so much better than Dark Places!!! I hate when I have to do a bad review 😉 A not-super-good reporter at a fourth-rate paper in Chicago is sent back to her tiny hometown to … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery
Tagged challenges, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects
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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Well, this is not what I was expecting. It was a whole bunch of Martha’s Vineyard “I’m fancy” with more than a little bit of King Lear who-is-the-favorite-daughter and the Kennedys all-American family thrown in. So Cadence Sinclair Eastman is 15 and and … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Contemporary, Fiction, Young Adult
Tagged challenges, E. Lockhart, We Were Liars, young adult
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Michelle joins the 2015 PopSugar Reading Challenge
Since I’m off to a roaring start on my reading goals for 2015, (three and a half days in, three and a half books read) I think I will also add this Popsugar Reading Challenge to help me branch out … Continue reading
Summer Reading Plans
Soooo, now that I’m almost sorta caught up on all my old postings, and in honor of the official beginning of summer, I can tell you about my summer reading goals: Catch up posts on my OWN damn Pride and … Continue reading
P&P Readalong review #6 (AKA: The End)
And, ladies and gents, we have arrived at the conclusion of my dearly loved, but lately loathed, Pride and Prejudice. My favorite moment in the whole novel happens in this final section, but we’ll get to that in a moment. … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Classics, Fiction
Tagged challenges, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, readalong
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P&P Readalong Review #4
Chapters 31-40 should be subtitled: Lizzy is clueless, tweenage drama, meddlesome friends, and lots o’ letters In this section, Darcy (and also his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam) visit Elizabeth and the Collinses at the parsonage. Charlotte wants to believe at first … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Dorks 1 Book, Challenges, Classics, Fiction
Tagged challenges, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, readalong
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