Tag: book reviews
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Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Anyone who knows even the tiniest thing about me knows that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is, in my opinion, the best book ever written. In too many ways to even try counting, the themes contained within its pages have shaped me into the person I am today. The idea of “walking around in someone…
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Why Amazon May Decide Not to Post Your Book Review
So…here’s my tangent today and I’d like to share it with all of you. Yesterday I noticed a post on my Facebook feed about a petition to prevent Amazon from arbitrarily deciding not to post book reviews based upon their belief that the reviewer might know the author. What this means is that if you…
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Book Review: Bully – A Fall Away Novel by Penelope Douglas
A couple of years ago I read a book by Colleen Hoover entitled Hopeless. It was the first title I’d ever read in the new category dubbed as “New Adult.” It was a cross between Young Adult Fiction, with characters in their late teens, and Adult Fiction because it included themes that were a bit…
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Book Review: The Mapmaker’s Children
Several weeks ago I entered a raffle for a free copy of Sarah McCoy‘s newest novel, The Mapmaker’s Children. I’d never heard of McCoy, but the premise of her novel looked interesting. It implied the intersecting of a Civil War-era Abolitionist woman and a modern-day woman who moves to a small town with a significant…
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Book Review – Clearer in the Night
Once upon a time, I was an avid reader of fiction with a supernatural element. I absolutely devoured Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Series, and then fell in love with Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. From there, I picked up just about anything I could get my hands on that included vampires, werewolves,…
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Book Review – “The Good Girl”
My favorite thing in the world is a book that grabs me by the throat in the first few pages and hangs on for the full ride, all the way until the last page. A lot of authors attempt to do this, but few actually succeed. Mary Kubica is the exception. From the first few…
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