So on Wednesday, July 31st I attended this really cool local Houston event called #SummerWithATwistDinner organized by Eat Read Rate and Katy Budget Books. We met at a restaurant and had dinner and got to chat with authors. We had fajitas yum! The authors were (from left to right in the awful cell phone photo […]
Feature for Aug 2, 2013 – How do you handle a book you don’t like? Do you DNF or do you power through? Rose: I typically reshelf the book as TBR. I have a hard time giving up on a book and I know that sometimes I might set a book aside due to disinterest […]
Julie’s Review I’ve only read about a handful of “steampunk” novels so I’m still a newbie and struggling with the world building. This novel was definitely a struggle for me and I wished I had a dictionary to help me keep up with the types of families and their names and […]
The Beat the Heat Read-a-thon runs from July 29th through August 11th. What does this read-a-thon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for two weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal! There […]
Title: Again Author: Brandy Jeffus Released: May 15, 2013 Self-published Synopsis via Goodreads: From recess buddies to high school sweethearts, Eli Stone and Bonnie Jinks were constants in each other’s lives. Although young, their relationship had withstood the test of many teenage tribulations. Marriage and a happy ever after were in their future plans. One alcohol fueled mistake […]
Title: Royal Street Series: Sentinels of New Orleans Book One Author: Suzanne Johnson Publisher: Tor Books Publication Date: April 10, 2012 Source: ebook provided for review purposes Description: As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue […]
Julie’s Review This book was the monthly pick for the Creatures book club. It was a quick and easy read since it is a fairly short book. At first I thought it was a pretty cool idea since Jane Austen is a centuries old vamp and is trying to blend in, yet […]
Feature for July 26, 2013 – What do you do with your books after you are done reading them? Rose: Shhhhhh! We must not speak of such things out in the open where they can hear. <looking around suspiciously> I have a stack, you see. I mean, we all do really. In the closet of my library, that’s […]
Title: Nomad Author: J. L. Bryan Publication Date: July 26, 2013 Genre: NA time travel dystopian novel Goodreads description:They took everything: her family, her home, her childhood. By the age of nineteen, Raven has spent most of her life in the sprawling slums of America, fighting as a rebel against the dictatorship. When the rebellion […]
Please welcome Julie Caldwell to Chapter Break as part of the Blogger Book Fair! Guest Post: Top Ten Quick Quotes from Psyched: 1. Aisi sat up impatiently and glowered at the figure before her. The shadow of a person bore the faintest trace of bobby socks, saddle shoes, and poodle skirt in her translucent, luminous […]