Showing posts from October, 2011

Happy Halloween!

Here at Reading For Sanity, we don't seem to be big on the horror genre -- unless you count sparkly vampires, which…

The Snowman's Revenge - Mark Smythe

Summary:   If you were left out in the cold snow all by yourself, would you be mad?  Of course you would!  Well, this s…

The School of Night - Louis Bayard

Summary: In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under cloak of darkness to discuss God, politic…

The Pout-Pout Fish - Deborah Diesen

Summary:   The Pout-Pout Fish tells the tale of Mr. Fish, who spends his days with his fish-face stuck in a permanen…

The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken - Mari Passananti

Summary:  Zoe Clark thinks her world will implode when her fiance dumps her on the eve of their splashy wedding.  Afte…

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer - Michelle Hodkin

Summary:   Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she…

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary

Summary:    Ramona likes being big enough to be counted on, but must  everything depend on her?  If Mrs. Kemp didn'…

A Tiger in the Kitchen : A Memoir of Food and Family - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Summary:   After growing up in Singapore, the most food-obsessed city in the world, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan left home and fa…

Dairy Queen - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Summary:  When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from …

Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

Summary:   When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous surv…

Dark Parties - Sara Grant

Summary:   Sixteen-year-old Neva keeps a list of The Missing.  She secretly records each one in a tattered journal hidd…

Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders - Emeril Lagasse

Summary: In chef Emeril Lagasse's tribute to one-pot wonders, he shows there's nothing more satisfying than a …

The Santa Club - Kelly Moss

Summary:  A delightful book with captivating illustrations, The Santa Club transitions your child from receiving gif…

Bloodborne - Gregg Luke

Summary:   One ordinary afternoon, research specialists Dr. Erin Cross steps into a local deli to get some lunch and ne…
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You Might Have Missed This...

Two days ago I broke the First Commandment of Blogging :  Thou Shalt Not Post Any Giveaways on Saturday (or Sunday, fo…

A TWILIGHT SAGA GIVEAWAY : LOVE IT or LOATHE IT?

Post-edit:  I've been told by a few people that they had problems commenting on this giveaway.   Please let me know…
BANNED BOOKS GIVEAWAY WINNER

BANNED BOOKS GIVEAWAY WINNER

Congratulations to Wendy T.   (aka won ) who won our Banned Books Giveaway! We'll be contacting you soon to arran…