Hi, everyone! Just a quick note that the LAPL Teen Book Fest is happening this weekend on Saturday, Oct 12. At noon we (yes, we! Thuy and Alethea) will be on a panel, Read This, I Dare You, in Meeting Room A. You can also see Alyson from Kid Lit Frenzy, Maggie from YA …
Title: Telegraph Avenue Author: Michael Chabon Publication Date: September 11, 2012 Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Adult Contemporary Fiction Find It: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, Book Depository Source: ARC from publisher received at ALA As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and …
Manicure Monday is a weekly feature that combines my love of nail polish and reading. Each week I’ll show you one of my current reads along with what’s on my nails. If you follows me on Instagram, you may have seen me post that I …
Hi, everyone. Why does the weekend go by so fast and the week so slow? I was extremely unproductive yesterday, but not in a really good way. I wanted to do a few things, but they just did not happen. Hoping that I am a …
I recently saw Jaws again on the big screen (thanks, Arclight!) and it is still awesome some 30 odd years later. I’d seen it a bunch of times on cable before but, seeing it in a theater really made me pay attention to it. It’s …
Thanks to my friend Bookyurt for posting this trailer recently. I had no idea that Jean Pierre Jeanet was coming out with another movie. It’s funny, too, because my friend and I had been talking about her upcoming trip to Paris and how she should …
Title: The Iron Duke (The Iron Seas #1) Author: Meljean Brook Publication Date: Oct 5, 2010 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Adult Paranormal Romance/Steampunk Find It: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository Source: Purchased After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on …
Hello! Today is the official kick-off day of the Better Late Than Never Challenge. I am challenging myself to read ARCs that are older than 6 months old. Sadly I have a large list of titles that qualify. I went through my list of e-ARCs …