Stars: ***** Penguin (2004) Paranormal 197 pages “Born to a family of intuitive women, MaryRose Occhino uses her “celestial whispers” to open the minds and the hearts of everyone who has sought out her remarkable abilities as a link to loved ones who have passed on. But her powers also became her connection to the… Read More »
Speed Reviews – Mixture
January 28, 2011 by ·
No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not To Have Children by Corinne MaierStars: **** Summary: The shocking treatise that was a bestselling international media sensation upon its 2007 publication in France now makes its eagerly anticipated English-language debut. In forty to-the-point, impressively erudite chapters drawing on the realms of history, child psychology, politics, and the environment,… Read More »
Ruined by Paula Morris
November 17, 2010 by ·
Stars: **** Teen Fiction309 pages© 2009 Point (Scholastic) Summary: Rebecca’s dad has to go out of the country so she is sent to temporarily live with her Aunt in New Orleans, a few years after Katrina. She’s snubbed at the prep school and doesn’t seem to fit in until she meets Lisette. Only one problem,… Read More »
Call of the Witches: Book 3 of the Witchery Series by Laura Stamps
February 9, 2009 by ·
Stars: **** First a little about the series (from the author’s blog): THE WITCHERY SERIES Trilogy (published by Trytium Publishing) A sexy paranormal romance novel series in paperback. In this series you’ll meet five wonderful Witches: Savannah, Maylene, Mirabella, Noelle, and Ravena. There’s something for everyone in this trilogy. The novels range from empowering to… Read More »
Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck
December 29, 2008 by ·
Stars: **** Yes again this is not the cover of the version I have but it was all I could find. The cover pictured here does look more interesting though. I read this book for the What’s in a Name Challenge (the first one). Blossom being the name of a flower. Summary: Teenage psychic Blossom… Read More »
Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
October 19, 2008 by ·
Stars: ***** This book is being counted towards A Ghostly Challenge, R.I.P. III Challenge and Young Adult Challenge. It was also read during the Read-a-Thon. Summary: Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle’s house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed… Read More »
