The ALA announced their 2014 awards this week, and there are a lot of them! Here are some of the highlights: The Newbery and Caldecott Awards for 2014 go, respectively, to Kate DiCamillo for Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures and Brian Floca, illustrator of Locomotive. Newbery Honor books for… Read more »
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on Jan. 28, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, MG Books Pages: 233 Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads A modern-day fairy tale set in a mysterious museum that is perfect for readers of Roald Dahl… Read more »
Description: Aidan Dougal is alienated from his family, and he’s convinced he brings destruction to everything and everyone he touches. For such a man, intimacy is impossible and marriage out of the question…until a gentle woman with delicate beauty and mysterious enchantments turns his cool composure into red-hot passion…. Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Worlds I’d Never Want to Live In. As usual, these are in no particular order: Mordor. Volcanoes. Ash, dust, rocks, and hardly any vegetation. Constantly overcast. Orcs. The Great… Read more »
Home to Seaview Key by Sherryl Woods Series: Seaview Key #2 Published by Harlequin MIRA on 2014-01-28 Genres: Contemporary Romance Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Midnight Promises, Where Azaleas Bloom, Catching Fireflies, A Seaside Christmas, Swan Point, The Christmas Bouquet, Dogwood Hill, Willow… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Hey, we… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon wants to ship stuff to you BEFORE you buy it. Yes, really. They’ve… Read more »
Review: The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury’s Diamonds is a novella featuring Barnaby Adair and his wife Penelope (nee Ashford) and Inspector Stokes and his wife Griselda, all characters from 2008’s Where the Heart Leads. Laurens has long planned a series of historical mystery-cum-romances involving Barnaby and Stokes, and the… Read more »
Amazon wants to ship stuff to you before you buy it. When I first saw this (on NPR Books and The Verge), I thought, “No way. This must be from The Onion or Jon Stewart or something like that. It’s got to be a joke.” I mean, seriously? Turns out,… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist (if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period,… Read more »
