gatsby!
(Like Oliver! You have to shout it!)For those of you who haven't yet seen the madness . . .Sparkling city! Fancy parties! Shirts flying!It's definitely a shinier take on Gatsby . . . That was the first...
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let's pretend this never happened
Quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read. Granted, I haven't read many books in the humor genre, but of the ones I've read, Jenny Lawson tops the list (easily beating out pros like Tina Fey and...
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the secret keeper
During a game of hide-and-seek, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson hides in a treehouse at her family's home in the English countryside. Just as she is about to head back down to the birthday party...
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ttt: top ten books with wonderful endings
This week's Top Ten Tuesday on the Broke and the Bookish is a Top Ten rewind (meaning you can pick any past topic that you missed). So I chose that feature that can make or break a book: its ending.Too...
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a dual inheritance
ATTENTION: I received this book courtesy of Goodreads. (Side Note: If anyone didn't know, Goodreads has tons of free giveaways. This was my first time winning and I was ecstatic! Definitely check out...
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anna and the french kiss
I'm really not a chic-lit reader and I only read YA when it's a book that's been raved about, but too many people have recommended Anna and the French Kiss for me not to read it. Plus, it's got so many...
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ttt: top ten words/topics that make me pick up a book
This week's Top Ten Tuesday on the Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Words or Topics That Make You Pick Up a Book.While a good title/cover usually first attracts me to a book, when I skim through the...
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tiny beautiful things: advice on love and life from dear sugar
I love advice columns and am a loyal follower of Dear Prudence (on Slate.com), but Sugar is my new favorite. While most advice columns follow the rules of propriety and logic, Dear Sugar is about the...
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book fair finds
Every year my hometown has a big book fair in April, but I've missed it the past four years because I was away at school. But not this year! Last week I hit up the sale (which is so big, it's held in a...
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ttt: light and fun books
This week's Top Ten Tuesday on the Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light and Fun. And you know what I learned?I don't read light and fun books.Well, I do, of course, or I...
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ttt: favorite book covers
This week's Top Ten Tuesday on the Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Favorite Book Covers.And like, well, just about everyone, I'm guilty of judging a book by its cover. If a book has a striking or...
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case histories
Investigator Jackson Brodie has been hired to look into three separate cases:#1- In 1970, a very young girl, Olivia Land, disappears in the middle of the night. #2- In 1979, a single father's beloved...
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the angel's game
Prequel to the wonderful Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game is another dark, literary mystery set in Barcelona. The story revolves around David Martin, a young man with a troubled upbringing who...
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life update
Reading in the park (the book is Dark Places).It's been a little quiet around here lately, but I think I have a worthy excuse this time. For the past month, my life has been a whirlwind. Not only have...
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sharp objects
Camille Preaker, a crime reporter for a small Chicago newspaper, is sent back to her hometown in southern Missouri to cover the murder of two young girls. Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital...
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swamplandia!
The Bigtrees are alligator wrestlers who run a theme park on an island in Florida. After mother Hilola dies of cancer, Swamplandia! hits hard times and the family copes in various ways. Kiwi, the...
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the goodreads average user rating
First of all, I have to brag for a moment. :-)Apparently I'm in the top 1% of reviewers on Goodreads. Woot woot! They don't explain exactly what that means, but I assume it has to do with the...
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Just for fun, I thought I'd post a playlist of some of the songs I've been loving this summer. I think I'll make this a new seasonal feature because I don't know about you, but I love it when friends...
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game of thrones
I'm a big fan of the "Game of Thrones" TV series but until recently, I had no interest in reading the "Song of Ice and Fire" books. They're all like a thousand pages long, I figured, and there are so...
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my favorite books of 2013
I haven't been around much these days, but let's skip the excuses and get right to it!While I haven't been posting regular book reviews and thoughts on this blog, I have still been reading and...
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eleanor & park (with pics!)
Eleanor & Park is a very simple love story at its core. Eleanor (a chubby, red-headed girl with a horrible home life) sits down on the bus next to Park (a slightly feminine, half-Korean boy) and...
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"the fault in our stars" trailer!
By GrodansnagelSo . . . anyone out there a fan of The Fault in Our Stars?Considering that the most popular post on this blog (by far) is my review of the book, I think I can safely assume that it's a...
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eating animals
I went into Eating Animals expecting to have a punch thrown at me, and the book definitely accomplished that. Like most people, I was aware that there is a lot wrong with the factory farming industry,...
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by ira glass
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me . . . there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has...
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the golem and the jinni
It's early yet, but I think I can safely say that The Golem and the Jinni is one of my favorite books of 2014. Imaginative, enchanting, and full of interesting and imperfect characters, it's unlike...
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