Month: December 2009

Happy Holidays + Leave a Mark Update

Posted December 25, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 14 Comments

Happy Holidays everyone. Whether this is Christmas day for you or not, I hope it’s great. I’m planning to see Sherlock Holmes later. So excited. Anyone else seeing a movie today? The Leave a Mark auctions are over…sadly, our last book was unable to participate this year but we hope to have them next time […]

Review: Secret Society by Tom Dolby

Posted December 24, 2009 by alicia in Uncategorized / 4 Comments

Title: Secret Society Author: Tom Dolby Publisher: HarperTeen Format: ARC Source: Publisher Pgs: 343 Release Date: Out Now Review by: Alicia Summary (from author‘s website): An eccentric new girl. A brooding socialite. The son of one of New York’s wealthiest families. A promising filmmaker. As students at the exclusive Chadwick School, Phoebe, Lauren, Nick, and […]

A FAVORITE Author of Mine…

Posted December 23, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 1 Comment

One of my favorite authors is Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) and he has a new book out called You Better Not Cry. It’s a memoir full of short stories about his horrible christmas past. If you know anything about this author, it’s bound to be full of amusing stories so I can’t wait to […]

R.I.P. Brittany Murphy

Posted December 20, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 10 Comments

According to news reports, actress Brittany Murphy has passed away. You can even read a couple nice notes Ashton Kutcher left via twitter about it: http://twitter.com/APlusK This is terribly sad to hear as she was a young woman with no apparent illness that I know of. I believe they are saying she suffered from cardiac […]

Dream Sacks Review: Comfy and Cute!

Posted December 20, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 2 Comments

Dream Sacks Review by Lauren This review is a long time coming so I do apologize to the company for that but I hope people enjoy the review and will check out the site. DreamSacks: http://www.dreamsack.com/store/ Dream Sacks is a company that sells a variety of items out of bamboo. Yes, I know that word […]

Secret Santa Number One!

Posted December 19, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 6 Comments

I participated in two secret santas this year…I got one of my gifts and I HAD to open it. This one was for The Mommy Files Secret Santa. My partner was Becca from Becca’s Backyard and she sent me some really cute items. I wish I had a picture but if this is going to […]

Marked Up 2010 Book?!

Posted December 18, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 3 Comments

Who wants a 2010 book before the new year? And who wants it to be MARKED UP by the author? Yes, well, you can go and bid on that right now. All the money goes to First Book and you’d be helping a great cause while getting something really fun out of it too. And […]