"There are some things in life you can alter - your weight, your appearance, even your name - but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those are the things that shape up. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can't." Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. This book is blowing it up all over the interwebs!! ...
Mystery/Thriller
Throwback Thursday: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Throwback Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Renee at It’s Book Talk. Throwback Thursday is an awesome opportunity to share old favorites as well as older books in our TBR. I love this idea as I'm often distracted by all of the shiny, new books I see every day and don't make it back to the ones that have been sitting on my shelves. My pick of the the week is: Sharp Objects by Gillian ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The Chalk Man
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of paragraphs from The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor. I'm participating the blog tour on January 20th and I can't wait to start this ...
Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
If you're a friend or follower on Goodreads, you may have seen my status update at page 108: "The jury is still out on this one. I'm not a fan of omitting quotation marks and it's moving a little slowly." And this one at page 163: "Okay, now I'm hooked." A brief status update at the end of the book would have looked something like this: "Huh? What the heck?" And that pretty much sums ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Little Broken Things
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Little Broken Things! I was very excited to read this book based on the blurb. The gorgeous cover certainly did not hurt! I was quickly drawn in by the first few chapters. After all, it's not every day that a sister alters the appearance of a child, assigns her a new name, and drops her off at her semi-estranged sister's house with no explanation. But ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Odd Child Out! This is another book that first caught my attention at Book Expo 2017. Though I hadn't read What She Knew, the first DI Jim Clemo book, I had absolutely no problem at all reading this book as a stand-alone. Odd Child Out drew me in straightaway. It is a very steady page-turner. There are several reasons for this but the first is that this ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: Odd Child Out
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first two paragraphs of Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan. My stop on the blog tour is coming up on Thursday, October 26th. I'll be starting ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: Sometimes I Lie
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of paragraphs of Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney. I received a copy of this book at Book Expo 2017 and I'll be starting it later ...
Review: Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath
"Who was the creature, this mother, wife, psych, who looked like me and sounded like me, but who had never once in a dozen years suspected her husband of cheating, let alone having another child?" Give Me the Child is a page-turner straightway! It's told in the first person by Cat, who learns her husband has another child after a middle-of-the-night knock on the door. The mother of the ...
Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
If you follow me on Goodreads, you may have seen my cry for help. I considered DNF'ing The Child Finder at about the half way point. I had already put it down and picked it again once. Still, I struggled. Then something happened. I'm not sure what it was. Perhaps I had gotten used to the style of writing. Perhaps the pace quickened. Who knows? Whatever it was, I'm glad for it. It would have been a ...
