Disclosure: I bought this book for my personal library. *Purchasing links in this review are connected to my Amazon Associates account, and will generate a small referral fee to me if clicked. The Heart is Not a Size Beth Kephart HarperTeen (2010), Hardcover (ISBN 0061470481 / 9780061470486) Fiction (YA), 256 pages Opening Lines: “What I remember now is the bunch of them running: from the tins, which were their houses. Up the white streets, which […]
Disclosure: I purchased this book for my personal library. Purchasing links included in this post generate referrals through my Amazon Affiliates account. Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask Jancee Dunn Villard (2009), Paperback original (ISBN 0345501926 / 9780345501929) Essay/memoir, 224 pages Opening Lines: “Last Thanksgiving, right about the time that our family had finished scraping up the last of our triple fleet of pies […]
Disclosure: I purchased both of these books for my own personal reading. *Purchasing links in this review are connected to my Amazon Affiliates account and will generate a small referral fee for me if they’re used. Undercover Beth Kephart HarperCollins, 2009, paperback (ISBN 9780061238956 / 0061238953) Fiction (young adult), 304 pages Opening lines: “One day I saw a vixen and a dog fox dancing. It was on the other side of the cul-de-sac, past the […]
Disclosure: I bought this book for my personal library. *Purchasing links in this review go through my Amazon Associate account. Janeology Karen Harrington (blog) Kunati Inc. (2008), Hardcover (ISBN 160164020X / 9781601640208) Fiction, 256 pages Opening Lines: “I stared at my attorney as he began his defense that I did not share the blame in the murder of my son. That I was not neglectful in leaving my two children in the care of my […]
Disclosure: This book was purchased for my personal collection. *Purchasing links in this review are connected to my Amazon Associates account; I will earn a small percentage of any sales these links generate. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless Susan Jane Gilman (blog) Grand Central Publishing (2005), Paperback (ISBN 0446679496 / 9780446679497) Memoir, 368 pages Opening lines (from the Introduction): “This is a book about growing up ambitious […]
Disclosure: I purchased this book directly from the author, who was kind enough to personally autograph it for me. ShapeShifter : The Demo Tapes — Year 2 Susan Helene Gottfried Lulu.com, Paperback (ISBN 9780557096565 / 0557096561) Fiction, 140 pages Book description (from the author’s website): The Demo Tapes: Year 1 introduced the reading public to ShapeShifter and the two men behind this fictional band: Trevor Wolff and Mitchell Voss. The Demo Tapes: Year 2 brings […]
Disclosures: I purchased this as an e-book to read on my Amazon Kindle. *Purchasing links in this review go through my Amazon Associates account. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present Gail Collins Little, Brown and Company (2009), Hardcover/E-book (ISBN 0316059544 / 9780316059541) Nonfiction (history/society), 480 pages Opening Lines (from the Introduction): “On a steamy morning in the summer of 1960, Lois Rabinowitz, a 28-year-old secretary for an […]
Disclosures: I purchased this to read as an e-book on my Amazon Kindle. *The purchasing link at the end of this review goes through my Amazon Associates account. The Help Kathryn Stockett ISBN 0399155341 / 9780399155345 Fiction (historical/literary), 2009 Kindle e-book edition Opening Lines: “Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August 1960. A church baby we like to call it. Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with […]
Disclosures: I purchased these books for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2008), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023483 / 9780439023481) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023491 / 9780439023498) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Opening lines: “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, […]
Disclosures: I bought this book for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. Love the One You’re With Emily Giffin St. Martin’s Griffin (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0312348673 / 9780312348670) Fiction, 368 pages Opening Lines: “It happened exactly one hundred days after I married Andy, almost to the minute of our half-past-three-o’clock ceremony. I know this fact not so much because I was an overeager […]
Disclosures: I bought this book for my personal library, and I intend to keep it indefinitely. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Associates account. Still Alice Lisa Genova (blog) Pocket Books, 2009 (paperback) (ISBN 1439102813 / 9781439102817) Fiction, 320 pages First sentence: “Alice sat at her desk in their bedroom, distracted by the sounds of John racing through each of the rooms on the first floor.” Random clip: […]
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading – A Reading Memoir Lizzie Skurnick (blog) Avon A (HarperCollins), 2009 (paperback original) (ISBN 0061756350 / 9780061756351) Nonfiction/books and reading; 448 pages Opening Lines: “I can’t remember the book that made me into a reader. (God knows this would be a better story if I could!) All I can remember is that first I wasn’t a reader and then, suddenly, I was.” Book description: Remember that […]
