the calico books

Hello, and welcome back to another Movie Monday – a semimonthly feature on my blog where I compare and discuss books and their movie adaptation! Today I’m discussing the 1990 movie, Lantern Hill, based...

We are now exactly three weeks away from Christmas day! Ahhh!!  I’m so excited, but honestly, time needs to slow down – it’s all coming so fast! lol Anyway, here we...

Hey everyone!  Today I have a fun topic to talk about.  Have you ever been to a book conference or an author panel before?  Unfortunately, I have not…yet!  However, I know...

Title: All I Want for Christmas by Jenny Hale Pages: 233 Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit Published by: Bookouture (Oct. 6, 2016) Summary All I Want for Christmas is a big, cozy Christmas story about the...

Hey all!  Christmas is officially in full swing!  I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving (for those of you in America); mine was very nice. 🙂 Countdown to Christmas is a...

Title: Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery Pages: 288 Genres: Classic, Fiction, Children’s/Young Adult Published by: Seal Books (Nov. 1, 1989; originally published 1937) Summary For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart...

Hey everyone!  First of all, I want to apologize for randomly disappearing on you all this month!!  I totally did not plan on taking a mini blogging hiatus, but I’ve just...

Title: Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young Pages: 288 Genres: Young Adult, Mystery, Romance, Horror Published by: Simon Pulse (Nov. 3rd, 2015) Summary Stay tonight. Stay forever. When Audrey Casella arrives for an unplanned stay at the...

In this near-future psychological thriller, a wealthy inventor’s daughter and a guy from the wrong side of the tracks are entangled in a revenge kidnapping and imprisoned in a mountain cabin...

Hey everyone!  Looking for a short, fun book to read this Halloween?  Why not check out The Witch Singer by Heather Long?  It just came out last week, and it sounds like a great book...