About the Book: Work, sleep, work, repeat. Nero’s lonely life suits him just fine until his best friend, Cass, asks him to take on a new apprentice—a beautiful young man who’s never set foot in a professional kitchen. Despite his irritation and his lifelong ability to shut the world out, Nero is mesmerised by the […]
How to Train Your Dragon Book Tag
Okay, so lets start this tag with a confession. Ready? I’ve only seen How to Train Your Dragon once. The first movie only, none of the shows or follow ups. And it was okay, cute enough, but it wasn’t up there on my favorites list. My daughter, Baby Chick, she actually really loves this one […]
Newly Hatched Review | The Inexplicable Logic of my Life
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life Standalone YA Contemporary Clarion Books | March 7, 2017 About the Book: Everything is about to change. Until this moment, Sal has always been certain of his place with his adoptive gay father and their loving Mexican-American family. But now his own history unexpectedly haunts him, and life-altering events force him and […]
Flights of Fancy – Fancasting Faces
Casting a beloved book, for a movie or just among the fans, is a problematic situation. We’re all so involved with the characters as we see them in our own heads, and it can get a little dicey when someone points out why we’re wrong. I’m not normally someone who reads a book and starts […]
Top Ten Tuesday | The Unputdownable
Ten Books I Read in One Day I don’t read a book in one day much anymore. Time just doesn’t allow it, unfortunately. However, there have been some that I loved so much I finished MOST of it in one day. Meaning, I may have been at like 6% when I picked it up that […]
Early Bird Review | Goodbye Paradise
About the Book: Most people called it a cult. But for twenty years, Josh and Caleb called it home. In Paradise, there is no television. No fast food. Just long hours of farm work and prayer on a dusty Wyoming ranch, and nights in a crowded bunkhouse. The boys of the Compound are kept far […]