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Title: Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle Pages: 357 Genres: YA, Magical Realism, Mystery Published by: Kathy Dawson Books (Aug. 8, 2017) Summary If you’re not careful, you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost. One stormy summer in a small Irish town, things begin to disappear. It starts with trivial stuff—hair clips, house keys, socks—but soon it escalates to bigger things: a memory, a heart, a classmate. Olive can tell that… Read More
Welcome back to Movie Monday! A feature on my blog where I compare and discuss books and their movie or television adaptation! Today I’m discussing the 1999 movie, The Haunting, based off of the book by Shirley Jackson called The Haunting of Hill House.
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature started by Breaking the Spine that puts the spotlight on upcoming releases! Today’s pick is: Ringer (Replica, #2) Releasing October 3rd, 2017! Synopsis Like its ambitious companion novel, Replica, this far-reaching novel by powerhouse bestselling author Lauren Oliver digs deep into questions of how to be a human being in a world where humanity cannot be taken for granted. In the world outside the Haven Institute, Lyra… Read More
Title: The Auctor Trilogy by T. R. Wolf Pages: 486 Genres: YA, Fantasy Published by: CreateSpace (Nov. 28, 2016) Summary When seventeen-year-old Addie Auctor’s mother is murdered by her father, she must confront many secrets that her family has hidden from her. The worst of these secrets is that Addie’s father, Donovan Hawthorne, is still hunting Addie because of an ancient blood feud between her mother’s family, the Auctors, and her father’s family, the House of Hawthorne…. Read More
Hello! March was a very slow blogging month for me – I think I only wrote 3 posts the entire month. I sort of went on an unexpected blogging hiatus, but I am happy to say I finally really feel like blogging again! Luckily, just because my blogging was in a slump, my reading was not. I still didn’t read a whole lot, but it was better than February, and I thoroughly… Read More
Ahhh! We are SO close to Christmas! I am so excited, but I cannot believe it’s almost here. Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read during this holiday season, which was inspired by Kourtni Reads‘ Christmas countdown! Usually, it’s posted on a Sunday, but I was sick earlier this week and didn’t get a chance to post Week 5’s countdown…so here… Read More
I’m combining October and November’s wrap up for a couple of different reasons! It’s already December 16, and before I know it I’ll be doing December’s wrap-up I was in a reading/blogging slump in October, so not much bookishness occurred. I was in a major blogging slump in November, so not much blogging happened… Okay, here we go…
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 and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead–until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his… Read More
Title: Runaway (Starlight Animal Rescue #1) by Dandi Daley Mackall Pages: 206 Genres: Middle Grade, Children’s Fiction, Contemporary, Christian Published by: Tyndale Kids (January 1st, 2008) Summary A new series by Dandi Daley Mackall, author of the best-selling Winnie the Horse Gentler series! I’ve run away seven times—never once to anything, just away from. Maybe that’s why they call me a “runaway,” and not a “run-to.” Meet 16-year-old Dakota Brown. She used to love all things “horse”… Read More
September was a bit of a slow reading month for me. I started out great by reading 2 entire books in 4 days, but then I actually didn’t read that much the rest of the month. Honestly, I feel like September flew by so fast! It was Labor Day, and then all of the sudden the entire month was over…what happened?? BOOKS READ I ended up reading a total of four books this… Read More
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