First and foremost, I’d like to thank the team over at The Fantastic Flying Book Club for giving me a spot on the blog tour for one of my most anticipated reads of the year, Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door! I was so excited I squealed when I got the email – I had been in the process of preordering the book when it came through – and our buddies at Dutton were sweet enough to send a copy to me…
You probably saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith when you were younger, right? Sexy, kick-ass power couple that also just happens to be spies? If not you probably saw Spy Kids which was abhorrent, but the same sort of deal – a normal family, that is secretly spies. Only in this case, the kids have no idea mom and dad have a secret life. And that secret life is not related to being a secret agent – actually, mom and dad…
Guess who’s got two thumbs and finally has her blog back under her jurisdiction set up the way she likes? Take my advice, kids: don’t host with GoDaddy. Or if you do, and your site is set to expire but you can’t afford to pay the arm and a leg they are asking to renew it, know that when they say they’re going to take your site down they mean it. And that if you want it back, you’ll have…
It seems like my new schtick is waiting until days into a month before I write a wrap-up post for the month prior. Is this for any particular reason? No. Do I know why I continue to do this? Nope. What I do know, though, is that I read 4 books in February – a lot of books for the shortest month of the year, and probably what contributed to my amazingly huge reading slump at the tail end of the…
As you might have guessed by now, I read from pretty much two genres: young adult, and domestic thrillers. I bounce back and forth between the two with pretty regular dependability, and occasionally I read a young adult domestic thriller. But by and large I tend to not believe anyone when they say that XYZ Book is the thriller of the year, the latest and greatest, the … whatever, Becky, it’s about a husband and wife and one of them killed…
I read a lot of what can be considered the “standard” Maureen Johnson fare back in high school – you know, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, that sort of thing. But because romances were never really my style, I was never intrigued by anything else she wrote – I was young and silly and put her in a “gross, ew, touchy-feely love ewwww” box and made sure that bitch was shut tight with a nail gun. However, last year I got that box…
I always have a very hard time writing reviews for sequels, because I like for all of my reviews to be uniform in their non-spoilery goodness. Have 99% of you already read this entire series? Probably. Do I want to keep it spoiler-free for the 1% who haven’t? Yes. Especially with the advent of Stiefvater’s new, Ronan-centric series coming out, I want to be sure my Raven Cycle reviews are fun and fresh without being life ruiners. Rating: How I’d…
I am, as my grandmother would likely have said, pleased as punch to be part of the blog tour for Between Before & After thanks to the fine people over at The Fantastic Flying Book Club! Today is day 4 of the blog tour, and there are still plenty of stops to go after mine – please go check out the tour schedule over here on the blog tour page! Rating: How I’d Describe This Book to A Friend BB&A is…
Who waited until February 5th to post a wrap-up of January? Who else, might be the better question! Who’s that girl? It’s Patricia! I dragged myself out of my slump – kicking and screaming, but out of it nonetheless – and managed to read five books in January! I am pretty impressed, not even going to lie to you. Pages Read: 1,717 – an average of 343 a book Average Rating: 3.8 stars I really enjoyed January’s eclectic mix of books – they…
The book that, it could be argued, kicked off the seismic shift in the reading population’s interest toward domestic thrillers and away from terrible BDSM fanfiction disguised as literature – Gone Girl, heavyweight champion of the world – came out in 2014. Ever since then, I’ve been – along with half the world to be quite honest – obsessed with these pieces of bubblegum fiction that you can chew up and spit out, usually within a day. They all have the…