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Blog Tour & Giveaway – The Child by Fiona Barton

July 11, 2017 by Ann Marie 12 Comments

Blog Tour & Giveaway – The Child by Fiona Barton

I'm excited and honored to be posting today as a stop on the blog tour of Fiona Barton's latest book, The Child. The Child was a quick and enjoyable read from start to finish. It's told from the perspective of four different woman and differs somewhat from many multiple-perspective books in that only one is narrated in the first person. This gives the book a bit of an unreliable narrator feel, ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, book blogger, bookworm, Family Dynamics, giveaway, mystery

Throwback Thursday: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

June 8, 2017 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Throwback Thursday: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

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 only started blogging about a year and a half ago. Therefore, I have lots of old favorites to talk about. While I may not remember all of the details needed to write a complete review, I’m happy to share ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Throwback Thursday, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Fairy Tale Retelling. Hansel and Gretel, Family Dynamics, Throwback Thursday, WWII Fiction

Throwback Thursday: Equal of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani

April 27, 2017 by Ann Marie 5 Comments

Throwback Thursday: Equal of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani

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 only started blogging about a year and a half ago. Therefore, I have lots of old favorites to talk about. While I may not remember all of the details needed to write a complete review, I’m happy to share ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction Tagged With: Family Dynamics, Historical Fiction, Iran, recommended for book club

Throwback Thursday: The Crimson Petal and the White

April 13, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Throwback Thursday: The Crimson Petal and the White

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 only started blogging about a year and a half ago. Therefore, I have lots of old favorites to talk about. While I may not remember all of the details needed to write a complete review, I’m happy to share ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Throwback Thursday Tagged With: Family Dynamics, Fiction, great book club read, Historical Fiction, Michel Faber, Throwback Thursday

Review of We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

April 7, 2017 by Ann Marie 13 Comments

Review of We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

We Were the Lucky Ones is the fictionalized account of the true story of the Kurc family and their experiences during WWII beginning in their home town of Radom, Poland in 1939. The book spans eight years as we follow the Kurc family members to several countries and continents including Austria, Italy, Argentina, South America, and Siberia, Russia as the war continues and finally ends. As many ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: based on a true story, Book Review, Family Dynamics, georgia hunter, great book club read, recommended for book club, WWII Fiction

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

November 18, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

How could I could not say no when the publisher asked if I'd like to review this book?? Though I don't read many novellas, I am an absolute evangelist for anything written by Fredrik Backman. I would read his grocery lists. (5 stars, I'm sure!) I met the Fredrik Backman at BEA this year and was  a little surprised to find that he's absolutely nothing like his aging, curmudgeonly characters. In ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: aging, death and dying, Family Dynamics, fredrik backman, novella

Review of “Stranger, Father, Beloved” by Taylor Larsen

August 1, 2016 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

Review of “Stranger, Father, Beloved” by Taylor Larsen

  The book begins with Michael seeing his wife, Nancy, talking to another man at a party. He decides that this is the man who should be married to Nancy. He promptly begins working on his plan to make this man Nancy's new husband. This is a strange book in the sense that a decent writer (clean, articulate language, etc.) has written a bad story about mostly bad, unlikable characters. My ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Gallery Books, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, Family Dynamics, Fiction, NetGalley

Review of Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer

July 29, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Review of Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer

  Amber Tozer is super-funny, brutally honest comedian who has bravely chosen to share her story of alcoholism and recovery with the world. If you're thinking this is another super-heavy memoir that will leave you feeling  nothing but depression and pity, just take a look at the cover. That sick figure version of Amber makes frequent appearances throughout the book... In a very real ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Memoir, Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amber Tozer book, ARC, Book Review, Family Dynamics, NetGalley, Nonfiction, one-day read, overcoming alcoholism book

Review of Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn’t Commit by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

July 13, 2016 by Ann Marie 3 Comments

Review of Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in  Prison For a Murder He Didn’t Commit by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. - Benjamin Franklin, letter to Benjamin Vaughn dated March 14, 1785   On the evening of October 30, 1975, Martha Moxley, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl residing in the prestigious Belle Haven enclave of the very affluent town of Greenwich ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, True Crime Tagged With: ARC, belle haven, Book Review, Dominick Dunne, Family Dynamics, great book club read, greenwich ct crime, Mark Furhman, Martha Moxley, Michael Skakel, recommended for book club, Robert F Kennedy, Sutton Report, true crime book, Wrongful conviction

Review of “We Could Be Beautiful” by Swan Huntley

July 4, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Review of “We Could Be Beautiful” by Swan Huntley

Catherine West is a wealthy trust fund (43 year old) kid living the good life in Manhattan. Like many wealthy people, she seems to have it all from the outside. Her days are spent bag shopping and lunching (though she doesn't actually eat anything). Her nights are filled with gallery openings other society events. Somehow she manages to squeeze in massages on Sundays. She barely has time for ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction Tagged With: ARC, beach read, Book Review, Family Dynamics, Fiction, NetGalley, Women's Fiction

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