Month: April 2015

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Posted April 29, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 16 Comments

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other […]

Nobody’s Hero by J. Leigh Bailey

Posted April 27, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 9 Comments

Nobody’s Hero by J. Leigh Bailey Review by Lauren Source: copy from netgalley; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Bradley Greene’s family all but discarded him when his brother caught him fooling around with another boy. Now Bradley has seventeen dollars and a gas card, and he’s sleeping in his car. He’s an emotional […]

A Look Back at Blog World (9)

Posted April 26, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 12 Comments

A Look Back at Blog World (9) It’s been awhile since I posted one of these, so I figured it was about time! Hope everyone is enjoying their April. It’s been a mix of sunny and rainy days, but today isn’t too bad. I’m just happy I only have a couple weeks or so until […]

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud

Posted April 24, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 13 Comments

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Review by Lauren Source: copy for review; all opinions are my own Official Summary: David Smith is giving his life for his art–literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he […]

Waiting on Wednesday: Cut Both Ways

Posted April 22, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 17 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday was created by Breaking the Spine Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian Out: September 1, 2015 Official Summary: Will Caynes never has been good with girls. At seventeen, he’s still waiting for his first kiss. He’s certainly not expecting it to happen in a drunken make-out session with his best friend, Angus. […]

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Posted April 20, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 16 Comments

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and […]

3 Picture Book Review + Giveaway

Posted April 17, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 16 Comments

I’m here today to share with you three different picture books that are all sorts of adorable and focus on being yourself. Definitely a message you want to share with the little ones in your life. I want to thank Sourcebooks for allowing me to review these items and share a copy of each book […]

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Posted April 13, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 19 Comments

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his new […]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Posted April 10, 2015 by shooting in Uncategorized / 23 Comments

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Review by Lauren Source: personal copy; all opinions are my own Official Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager […]