Today I’m reviewing Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham, as a part of an ARC tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Reunited will be released on June 12th, 2012. The Summary: In middle school, Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends and the world’s biggest fans of the rock band Level3. But everything changed when they...

Summer is breathing down my neck like a three-headed dog named Fluffy. Responsibilities keep piling up, and every time I cross one thing off the to-do list, three more items magically appear. And my kids only have 10 days of school left. Needless to say, I’ve fallen behind on my blogging. Having ALL the boys home ALL the time...

This week’s Road Trip Wednesday question is: What book brings back memories? Books and memories go hand-in-hand for me, but I’ll never forget when I discovered Anita Shreve. I had run out of books at home and didn’t have time to go to the book store, so I picked up the first cover that grabbed...

May 1st marked two amazing book birthdays. Veronica Roth’s follow-up Insurgent, and Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue, the long-awaited sequel to Graceling. Reading these two books back-to-back illustrated how sequels can be very different but equally fantastic. I’ll be reviewing Insurgent for YA Book Club later this month, but I can’t help comparing and contrasting a little for my review of...

For this Road Trip Wednesday, the Highwayers asked: What’s your favorite use for a book besides reading it? We have so many books in our house that they inevitably end up as decorations. We have some scattered around, but most reside in my husband’s office. (We generally keep his books on the most visible shelves,...

Happy Friday! Due to some family things, including sick kids and a trip to the ER, my blog posting has been sporadic lately. Everyone is fine, and I’m hoping life will get back to normal soon. I thought I’d catch up by sharing a few odds and ends to wrap up the week. I want to send...

Hosted by the ladies at Escape in a Book, Memorable Monday asks us to share quotes we’ve collected. I could have chosen a memorable quote from either of the books I read this week, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (YA) and A Clash of Kings (Not YA). But the quote that stuck...

I love collecting quotes, and the ladies over at Escape in a Book created Memorable Monday to share memorable quotes from books. I’ve read a little lately about the future of New Adult as a genre, and I couldn’t help thinking of one of my favorite books. The Secret History by Donna Tartt is certainly literary, but...

Today I’m reviewing The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks. This ARC came to me through a tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Please check out their site here! When prep-school student Wendy Geller is found dead in Central Park, classmate and former best friend Rain struggles to reconcile the girl she once knew...

For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, the topic is: PROM Oh, it’s so funny to think back to that time. My school had plenty of semi-formal dances for underclassmen. I’d gone to most of those, sometimes with a boy I was dating and sometimes with friends. During my junior year, I hadn’t really thought much...