Feature for Sept 20, 2013 – What were some of your favorite picture books as a kid? If you have kids, what are your favorites to read to them? Rose: If you Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Tiny Seed, Where The Wild Things Are, The Monkey and the Crocodile. The Monkey and the Crocodile was one […]
HBR is one of the biggest book signing events happening in Houston, Texas.We have 62 authors attending! This event will be held Saturday, November 2, 2013 and will offer a unique experience where readers from everywhere can meet with their favorite authors in person. At this exciting event there will also be entertainment, exclusive giveaways, exclusive early […]
There is an amazing thing called the Little Free Library, and the concept is taking off all around the world! Today we visited three Little Free Libraries in our area with a few members of our YA For Adults book club. It was such a fun field trip! We dropped off a tote full of […]
Would you like to win some signed copies from some of the amazing authors who will be attending the Houston BookRave? Well, here is your chance! TrinDee Events is giving away 10 signed copies to three lucky winners. The first winner drawn will get to choose five books, the second winner will choose three, and […]
Julie’s Review I really liked the premise of this book. I thought it was unique and mysterious. It starts out with Hugh waking up in a crater completely naked and not having any clue what happened. Then we have Cece who is dealing with her bi-polar hoarder mother and is trying to […]
Feature for Sept 13, 2013 – Question! It is up to you to do a Kickstarter campaign for your favorite book!!! Who are you casting for the main characters? Rose and Julie So for this week we had to pick our favorite book and create a dream cast. The only problem: SO MANY BOOKS ARE BEING MADE […]
Julie’s Review I was really looking forward to reading Heavenly Hell because the description sounded cool and it was getting great reviews. Now I wonder if I read the same book as all these people giving it a 5 star rating. Overall, it was just okay. I think it had the idea […]
The lovely ladies from Colorimetry and Tressa’s Wishful Endings have come up with this great Read-a-thon to help reduce our TBR pile. The Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon begins September 8th and ends September 21st. You do not have to be a blogger to sign up – so check out their sign up pages and join in the fun! They will be using Twitter hashtag […]
Feature for Sept 6, 2013 – Action! Bookshelf Tour. Give us a tour of your bookshelf. Rose: How about a tour of my library? Julie: Hmm a bookshelf tour huh? Well, here are a few photos of my various bookshelves in various areas of my house. This bookshelf is my pretty shelf with glass doors. It sits […]
Julie’s Review Good news, we broke out of the 3 star category! While the first 2 books were a little bit of a struggle for me to get through, this one got my attention right away and kept it the entire book. A great third book. At first I wasn’t sure […]