Aberrations (Literary Feline)
“It’s a sudden loss of muscle control,” is how I would always begin, feeling cornered, “while remaining conscious. It’s as if your body’s faintin’ but you’re not.” [ pg 24]
Aberrations by Penelope Przekop
Emerald Book Co, 2008
Fiction; 241 pgs
Angel Duet is 21 and everything she believed and thought she knew is about to change. […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
The Map Thief (Caribousmom)
Admiral Zheng stops and extends his arm. A Vice admiral places a scroll in his outstretched hand. He turns his attention to it, unrolls it, and reads aloud: “‘All ships moored are ordered back to the capital, and all goods on the ships are to be turned over to the Department of Internal Affairs and […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
Say Goodbye (Nicola)
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
Sixth book in the Quincy/Rainie series
Pages: 360
First Published: July 15, 2008
Genre: thriller, mystery
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
He was moaning, a guttural sound in the back of his throat as his fingers tightened their grip in her hair.
Comments: Kimberly Quincy, FBI agent, is told a strange tale by a prostitute of a very scary […]
Popularity: 19% [?]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Caribousmom)
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -From Isola Pribby to Juliet, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ first novel will certainly ruin you ‘for enjoying bad books.’ Set on the island of Guernsey (in the Channel Islands) in the months following the Second World […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Lesley)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Contemporary Fiction - Epistolary
2008 The Dial Press
Finished on 7/23/08
Rating: 4.75//5 (Fabulous!)
ARC - Release date of July 29th
“Here’s who will love this book—anyone who nods in profound agreement with the statement,’Reading keeps you from going gaga.’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel […]
Popularity: 28% [?]
The Seance (Nicola)
The Seance by Iain Lawrence
Pages: 263
First Published: July 8, 2008
Genre: YA/juvenile, historical fiction, mystery
Rating: 3.5/5
First sentence:
At five minutes to midnight, a stranger arrived for the seance.
Comments: It is 1926 and Scooter King is his mother’s helper. Madam King is a spiritualist who holds fake seances and Scooter is the one who pulls all the […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
The Lace Reader (Caribousmom)
The Lace Reader must stare at the piece of lace until the pattern blurs and the face of the Seeker disappears completely behind the veil. When the eyes begin to fill with tears and the patience is long exhausted, there will appear a glimpse of something not quite seen. In this moment an image […]
Popularity: 39% [?]
The Lace Reader(Amy)
There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze…Even a wild dog’s matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely. - The Lace Reader- pg 101
Sophya “Towner” Whitney grew up around Salem, Massachusetts. She […]
Popularity: 47% [?]
