The Polliwog Blog

Book Review: Anna 2026 by Lucas Morgan

2013-05-23T05:00:00.000-04:00

Riley's wife is missing and he's on a mission to find her. She was arrested and sent to a sealed off part of the city. The government claims it is because she took drugs, but Riley knows better. He will do anything he can to regain Anna. This is the story of a dystopian society where the government tries to protect people from themselves. Are they really doing that or is there an

Book Review: Dented Cans by Heather Walsh

2013-05-22T15:11:00.000-04:00

The story of one family's life with a frugal father. The Sampson family is known for their cheapness. The father loves to buy dented and unlabeled cans at discount prices. Sixteen year old Hannah knows her family is not normal. She can't wait for the day she can get away. Her fourteen year old brother, Ryan, is on the fast track to nowhere getting by by doing the bare minimum. Her

Top Ten Tuesday

2013-05-20T23:59:00.000-04:00

hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Favorite Book Covers of Books I've Read In Alphabetical Order by Author's Last Name

Monday Funnies

2013-05-19T23:59:00.000-04:00

XM Attack

2013-05-17T16:41:00.001-04:00

I'm starting a new XM Attack on my XM Attack blog. Well, actually I started yesterday, but I didn't post it until today. I'm not going report here every time I put up a post there, don't worry about that. What is XM Attack? It's what I call my intense listening to sattelite radio. I subscribe to XM and when I started XM and Sirius were rivals. Each day I listen to one channel for an hour.

Monday Funnies

2013-05-12T23:59:00.000-04:00

Isn't the first day of the work week so much fun? Hope you had a great weekend. Sorry Monday has to spoil it for you!

Book Review: Harry Potter: Page to Screen by Bob McCabe

2013-05-11T00:16:00.002-04:00

Emotional! If you are a fan of the movies you will truly enjoy this book. Being a part of the fandom while the movies were being made makes it that much more special when I read about it. If I read a book on the making of Star Wars it would be cool, but I wouldn't feel the emotion because I wasn't alive when they made the original three. I was born in 1982. But, with Harry Potter I

Book Review: Against the Odds by J. Abrams

2013-05-08T23:59:00.000-04:00

I'm not into romance novels like this so maybe I'm not being fair, but I am reviewing compared to what I like to read. That's all I can do. The whole thing is so cliched it's not even funny. We have the tall, "dark", and handsome bachelor (he's actually white, while she's the dark one). The two instantly fall in love. It's all perfect. Even the bad stuff that happens is perfect.

Book Review: Echoes (Glenbrooke #3) by Robin Jones Gunn

2013-05-07T23:59:00.000-04:00

After getting dumped by her fiance, Lauren joins the online world thanks to her brother getting her a computer. Her first correspondence, again thanks to her brother, is with a man who calls himself KC. After a few misdirected emails meant for her brother, the two continue the conservation and begin a fulfilling relationship through the wires. After a year, Lauren decides it is time to

Book Review: Not a Sparrow Falls by Linda Nichols

2013-05-07T14:23:00.000-04:00

The prodigal daughter returns home in this poignant tale of love and redemption. Mary Bridget has had tragedy in her life which lead to her taking the wrong turn with her boyfriend. Somehow, her life has ended up on the wrong side of the tracks and she wants out. Her out is running away and becoming a nanny for a widowed preacher's family. This is the story of two people needing each

Teaser Tuesday

2013-05-06T23:59:00.000-04:00

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can playing along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page Be careful not to include spoilers! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title

Monday Funnies

2013-05-05T23:59:00.000-04:00

Oh, please. The refs hear me every time!

Book Review: One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis

2013-05-03T15:22:00.002-04:00

One Step too Far. An appropriate title. This story takes things one step too far. Emily Coleman seems to have it all. She's the favorite twin. She gets all the attention from her mother. She's married. She has a kid. Yet, one day, she walks out to start her life all over. Emily ran away from something hard. She didn't want to deal with it. She just ran away. Running away

Book Review: When Strawberries Bloom (Lizzie Searches for Love #2) and Big Decisions (Lizzie Searches for Love #3) by Linda Byler

2013-05-01T15:29:00.000-04:00

The second book in the Lizzie Searches for Love trilogy deals with Lizzie growing up. She's teaching school now and dealing with her father's failing health. She is also questioning her feelings for Stephen. Is he the one God wants her to be with? Is she the right person for a relationship? Is she growing up? I enjoyed this book better than the first. It felt more Amish. With

Blog Tour: David's Song by A.R. Talley

2013-04-30T23:59:00.000-04:00

Tour Schedule Taken from the book cover: Annie only ever really loved two men in her life. One broke her heart, the other married her. Four children and fifteen years later, Annie’s marriage is in jeopardy. Money is tight and her husband questions the very foundation of their relationship. When Annie is unexpectedly given the opportunity to see the young man who broke her heart —

Book Review: She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg

2013-04-30T14:33:00.001-04:00

Susanna's life seems to be very liberal and she lives that with her friends. I was put off by that, I will admit, but this was so excellently written that I could not help but give the book three and a half stars. Susanna Sonnenberg explores the friendships of her life. Through this book she shows just how deeply each person meant to her and what she got out of the relationship.

A-Z Challenge: Z is for Zoo

2013-04-30T00:01:00.000-04:00

Zoobooks. Did anyone order these when they were younger? My mom did for my brother and me. Basically, Zoobooks are a monthly magazine subscription for children about animals, but I think you should keep these magazines rather than discard them like regular ones. While new facts may be discovered they don't go out-of-date like other magazines when the season's over or the news is no longer

Book Review: Gardenias For Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn

2013-04-29T19:58:00.000-04:00

Mother and daughter bonding story. Abby has the great opportunity to drive her brother's expensive SUV across the US from Washington to Georgia (his family's going on a business trip to Europe and when they get back to the States they want to drive up the east coast). She's excited for living in Hawaii has given her a bout of homesickness for the mainland and her Grand Lady. She brings

A-Z Challenge: Y is for You

2013-04-29T00:01:00.000-04:00

You. You. You. Second person point of view. What is second person point of view? First person is "I, I, I." Third person is "he, she, it". Second person is "you." You pick up a book. You open the book and begin to read. That sort of thing. When I think of second person point of view I think of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. My brother was given a set of four one year for

Monday Funnies

2013-04-28T23:59:00.000-04:00

Book Review: 17 Cents and a Dream by Daniel Milstein

2013-04-28T00:01:00.000-04:00

Surprising that I'm reviewing this book a few days after April 26, which is the anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion in Russia, which took place in 1986. This sets in motion Daniel's life. It changes everything for those who live in the area. Radiation makes it not safe. Jobs and lives are lost. Daniel's story is the typical rags to riches story, but it's told in such a poignant

Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

2013-04-27T13:43:00.001-04:00

This is not the story of cancer. It is just the story of two kids who have cancer. Our narrator is Hazel, a 16 year old girl who was diagnosed with Stage IV Thyroid Cancer, but as part of a trial she found a miracle that is keeping her alive (and it didn't work for most). She meets Augustus Waters at a cancer kids support group, which she tried to get out of going. He had his leg

A-Z Challenge: X is for Xanaduism

2013-04-27T13:28:00.000-04:00

The hardest letter of the English language to find something to fit the topic is the letter X. I could think of one character from Harry Potter with an X, but it was his first name (Xenophilius) and not his last name (Lovegood) so I decided not to go with it. I searched authors, but came up with nothing of significance to me. I searched books and came up with nothing that would give me

A-Z Challenge: W is for Wrinkle

2013-04-26T19:27:00.002-04:00

From the Time Quintet that would be Madeleine L'Engle's novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The Time Quintet (sometimes referred to as the Time Quartet) follows the stories of the Murrys. A Wrinkle in Time is the siblings, Meg and Charles Wallace's story. Meg is in search of her father who has gone missing after discovering the ability to tesseract, which she has no idea what it is. As a reader, I've

A-Z Challenge: V is for Voigt

2013-04-25T00:01:00.000-04:00

That's the author, Cynthia Voigt. She covers such interesting topics as mystery, adventure, child abuse, and racism. Some of her more popular work is the Tillerman Family Series which includes Homecoming and Dicey's Song. If you have not read any of her work I recommend you doing so! Ten Facts about Cynthia Voigt: 1942, February 25 born in Boston, Massachusetts. 1981, first book Homecoming