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Dead Laptops, Graduation, Holidays and Other Blogging Interferences

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:30:35 PST

Long time no see! Over the last 3 or 4 months it's become apparent that when life gets busy, the busy quit blogging. Quick update. I finished my last quarter of culinary school in December. Yay! It...

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Review: Everything We Ever Wanted By Sara Shepard

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:41:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary Sara Shepard, the bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, delivers a powerful novel of family dreams, lies, and delusions. Everything We Ever Wanted begins with a phone call...

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Review: A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:33:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary “I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.” —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a...

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Review: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:16:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. The author of such...

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Review: All These Things That I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:50:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the...

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Review: The Traitor's Wife by Kathleen Kent

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:56:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier...

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Review: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:51:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by...

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Review: Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:55:01 PDT

When her boyfriend, Danny, is killed in a car accident, Wren can’t imagine living without him. Wild with grief, she uses the untamed powers she’s inherited to bring him back. But the Danny who...

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Review: Juliet by Anne Fortier

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:21:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved Aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother...

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Review: The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:20:58 PDT

Kyra and David Winter are happier than they ever thought they could be. They have a comfortable home, stable careers, and a young son, Michael, whom they love more than anything. Yet because of...

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Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:57:01 PDT

Goodreads Summary What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life? Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most...

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Review: The Legacy by Katherine Webb

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:25:00 PDT

A fresh and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction, Katherine Webb debuts with a haunting novel about a secret family history. Already a sensation in the United Kingdom, Webb’s The Legacy is a...

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Review: The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:43:00 PDT

Goodreads Summary The papers have called me a monster. You’ve either concluded that I am a braggart as well as a sadist or that I have a deep and driving need to be caught and punished. In the...

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Review: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:05:00 PDT

Daniel H. Wilson, the author of this book, has a doctorate in robotics from prestigious Carnegie Mellon and his writing credits include the nonfiction How to Survive A Robot Uprising and How to...

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Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:50:00 PDT

The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in...

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Review: The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:27:00 PDT

Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After. What I’m talking about here is the ka-pow,...

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Review: Wither by Lauren DeStefano

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:09:00 PDT

What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb — males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age...

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Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:51:00 PDT

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Narrated by Death,...

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Review: Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:02:00 PDT

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why...

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Review: The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:33:00 PDT

Lulu and Merry’s childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu’s tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He’s always hungered for the love of the girl’s self-obsessed...

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Top Ten Tuesday: Good and Bad Trends

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:42 PDT

This week's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish asks which trends we'd like to see more or less of. Mine is a combination of the two. 1. More- Dystopian I've just been really...

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Review: Releasing Gillian's Wolves by Tara Woolpy

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:45:00 PDT

Releasing Gillian's Wolves is the story of a political wife forced to finally do something about her faltering marriage. We frequently see women standing by their Senator/Congressman/Religious...

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Friday Blog Hop: New Books

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:33 PDT

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Crazy-For-Books is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! ...

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Theme Thursday- Action

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:44:09 PDT

Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages that will be open from one Thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple: A theme will be posted...

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Review: You Know When The Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

noreply@blogger.com (Rachel) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:31:00 PDT

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the...

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