by Nicole Etolen | Jun 10, 2011 | Books
Title: Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten! Author: Trisha Speed Shaskan Publisher: Capstone Pub Date: August 1, 2011 Jacob and I love reading funny stories, particularly those that offer a new take on old tales. Red Riding Hood seems to be rising to the height of...
by Nicole Etolen | Jun 8, 2011 | Books
Did you ever finish a book all the way through, but by the end you still weren’t really sure what you thought about it? That’s how I felt about Abandon by Meg Cabot. I wanted to love the book. So many other reviewers loved it, and I always feel like...
by Nicole Etolen | Jun 2, 2011 | Books
Ashfall by Mike Mullin is one of the most popular “what if Yellowstone erupted” YA apocalyptic books of the century for a good reason! Find out what makes this doomsday story so special! In 1980, when Mount St. Helen’s erupted, it blew 1.4 billion...
by Nicole Etolen | May 31, 2011 | Books
I started reading Daisy Piper’s Princess Callie and the Totally Amazing Talking Tiara by the light of an LED flashlight during a particularly nasty storm that knocked out our power. Somehow, that seemed fitting, like I was a little kid staying up past her...
by Nicole Etolen | May 29, 2011 | Books
I am on a bit of a YA kick lately, in case you can’t tell. It’s funny, I never read YA books when I was actually in the targeted age demographic, now they’re on my top five list of favorite genres. I recently finished Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz,...
by Nicole Etolen | May 27, 2011 | Books
Van Gogh has always been one of my favorite artists, more for the tortured soul that he was than for his art itself, although few can deny the beauty within his famous Starry Night. The way the dark colors swirl together, the bleak structure off the the left...
by Nicole Etolen | May 23, 2011 | Books
I recently won the Spring Carnival giveaway on Books Devoured’s stop of the hop, and the prize was a surprise book off of my Amazon wish list. Well, Shannon must be a mind reader, because she sent me the exact book that I’ve been hoping for. A mere two...
by Nicole Etolen | May 16, 2011 | Books
After devouring and reviewing the first book in Marina’s Tales by Derrolyn Anderson, I immediately started the second book, The Moon and the Tide. It was every bit as wonderful as the first book, continuing the story right where the Between the Land and the Sea...
by Nicole Etolen | May 12, 2011 | Books
You know how sometimes you read a book and you get so into it that you really feel like you’re part of the character’s lives? Then, when it’s over, you actually miss them the way you would a good friend? Well, Between the Land and the Sea by Derrolyn...
by Nicole Etolen | May 8, 2011 | Books
Patricia K. Lichen’s Kidnapping the Lorax is an eco-fiction book like no other, which makes sense because Patricia Lichen herself is rather unique. Few people can say they are a true pirate- Lichen was arrested for piracy in Peru while working with Greenpeace....
