The Rebel Wife - Taylor M. Polites
Summary: Augusta Branson, born of a prominent Southern family made destitute by the Civil War, is forced into marriag…
Fallout - Ellen Hopkins
Read Kari's review of Crank and Glass . Summary: So You Want to Know All about her. How she really is. (Was?) W…
A Virtuous Woman - Kay Gibbons
Summary: When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully rai…
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
Summary: It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. When…
The 100 'Greatest Books for Kids'
This list is from USA Today as ranked by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine. You didn't think I came up with…
Glass - Ellen Hopkins
Read Kari's review of Crank , Hopkin's first book in the series. Summary: One little bit, my heart revs high,…
Inside Out - Maria Snyder
Summary: " Imagine every space in this room filled with people. Constantly being jostled and pushed. In the lo…
The Perils of Cheap E-Books (aka A Big Ole Review of Some Very Bad E-Books)
Our thanks to occasional guest reviewer Melissa Paul for her courage in tackling the sometimes scary world of inexpens…
Persuasion : A Latter-Day Tale - Rebecca H. Jamison
Summary: "I saw him. We spoke. Now I have nothing to worry about. We can treat each other as old friends... B…
Entwined - Heather Dixon
This review is from Larissa W . Larissa is a full time stay-at-home mom to the craziest 3 year old you'll ever mee…
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Summary: At her birth, Ella of Frell was the unfortunate recipient of a foolish fairy's gift -- the "gift&qu…
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Summary: These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to In…
What I've Been Up to...
Not reading, that's for certain. I was reading, but the book was SO boring and then I got distracted... In addit…
Dreamland - Sarah Dessen
Summary: Ever since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious drea…