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Book Expo 2017

Throwback Thursday: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

January 11, 2018 by Ann Marie 9 Comments

It Ends with Us Colleen Hoover

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: It Ends with Us by Colleen ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Women's Fiction Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, Colleen Hoover, Fiction, Women's Fiction

Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

December 23, 2017 by Ann Marie 7 Comments

Grist Mill Road

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 ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, Book Expo 2017, Fiction, mystery, thriller

Review: The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin

December 15, 2017 by Ann Marie 16 Comments

I really enjoyed The Swans of Fifth Avenue and started getting excited about The Girls in the Picture as soon as it was announced. In fact, it was the book I was most excited about receiving at Book Expo 2017. Melanie Benjamin was as much a delight in person, at her in-booth signing, as she is on her social media accounts. She even allowed me to blather on about her kitchen reno (it looks ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, Book Worm, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Melanie Benjamin

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out

October 26, 2017 by Ann Marie 10 Comments

Odd Child Out Gilly Macmillan

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 ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, Book Expo 2017, death and dying, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Gilly Macmillan, Literary Suspense, Literary Thriller, mystery, Odd Child Out, TLC Blog Tours

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Caroline: Little House, Revisited

October 1, 2017 by Ann Marie 5 Comments

Caroline: Little House Revisited

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Caroline: Little House, Revisited! As someone who grew up watching Little House on the Prairie and reading the much-celebrated books series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was very excited to hear about this book at Book Expo 2017. When I was offered the opportunity to participate in the blog tour, I jumped on it! Caroline's character, in both the book and ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, bookworm, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Sarah Miller

Review: Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath

September 29, 2017 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Give Me the Child

"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 ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, Family Dynamics, Fiction, mystery, Pyscological Thriller, thriller

Review of Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

September 14, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Sing Unburied Sing

"Knowing that tree of ghosts is there makes the skin on my back burn, like hundreds of ants are crawling up my spine, seeking tenderness between the bones to bite." It is not very often that I read a book that leaves me feeling completely gutted. Sing, Unburied, Sing drew me in very slowly, but ultimately, very completely. This is a book that will stay with me for a long, long time. At its ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, Book Review, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Great for Book Club, Jesmyn Ward, Literary Fiction

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