The Sunday Post #49 (11.30.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ 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 on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.    We had a very nice Thanksgiving up…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in November 28

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I didn’t do so great this week due to the holiday and our quick trip up to Boston to my sister-in law’s. Plus, the weather was certainly not on our side. We ended up changing our traveling plans last minute due to the Nor’easter that came through on Wednesday – instead of leaving mid-day, we got up and left first…

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Short & Sweet Review: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs (audio)

Title: Grave Secrets    Author: Kathy Reichs      Series: Temperance Brennan, #5       Narrator: Katherine Borowitz   Published: July 2002, Simon & Schuster Audio    Length: 10 hours    Source: Library     It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well when Dr. Temperance Brennan and the…

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Review: Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs (audio/print)

Title: Bones Never Lie      Author: Kathy Reichs    Series: Temperance Brennan, #17     Narrator: Katherine Borowitz   Published: September 2014, Random House Audio / Bantam  Length: 10 hours 48 minutes  / ARC Paperback, 331 pages  Source: Audio via Audible / Print via publisher In the acclaimed author’s thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous…

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Review: The Look of Love by Sarah Jio

Title: The Look of Love    Author: Sarah Jio    Published: November 2014, Plume   Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages    Source: Publisher   Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of…

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Review: The Burning Girl: A Whispers Story by Lisa Unger

Title: The Burning Girl: A Whispers Story    Author: Lisa Unger     Series: The Whispers, #2      Published: November 2014, Gallery Books   Format: ARC e-book, 75 pages    Source: Netgalley    From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger comes the second of three stories in an e-novella about a psychic medium and the strange secrets she begins to uncover–for better or for worse. Ten years after…

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The Sunday Post #48 (11.23.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ 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 on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  So if you remember in last week’s post,…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in November 21

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog It was quite cold here this week, so most of my walking was done indoors. I also managed to do some yoga a few times this week. I didn’t get to any actual classes, but just practiced at home. I’ve found quite a few yoga flows online that I like to do and always feel so good after doing them.…

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Review: Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer (audio)

Title: Nantucket Sisters    Author: Nancy Thayer  Narrator: Kate Rudd   Published: June 2014, Brilliance Audio    Length: 10 hours 5 minutes    Source: Library  Friendship takes center stage in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer’s captivating, emotionally charged novel featuring all the tenderness and wit, drama and romance that readers have come to expect from this insightful, much-loved writer. When they meet as girls on a beach in…

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Review: The Hidden Girl by Louise Millar

Title: The Hidden Girl     Author: Louise Millar  Published: August 2014, Atria/Emily Bestler Books   Format: ARC e-book, 400 pages    Source: Netgalley   From “a writer to watch” (Booklist), this gripping psychological thriller follows a young woman who uncovers a terrible secret in her idyllic suburban neighborhood—but who will believe her? Hannah Riley and her musician husband, Will, hope that a move to the Suffolk countryside will promise…

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The Sunday Post #47 (11.9.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ 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 on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  This past week I became an aunt again…my…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in November 14

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog This week was a little hectic, but I managed to still get in my 30 minutes every day. I was down at my youngest sister’s for a few days because she was having baby #2 and I was in charge of watching her 19 month old, who happens to be my goddaughter. We had a great time together and I…

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Review: The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

Title: The Silent Sister     Author: Diane Chamberlain      Published: October 2014, St. Martin’s Press   Format: ARC e-book, 352 pages    Source: Netgalley via She Reads Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager.  Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in November 7

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I’ve been trying to get outside and walk as much as I can. Yes, it’s been quite cool here in NY, but I really do love walking outdoors and since I am back in training mood for my next 1/2 marathon, which is obviously an outside event, I prefer, when I can, to do my training walks outside. A few…

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Review: Close to Home by Lisa Jackson (audio)

Title: Close To Home     Author: Lisa Jackson       Narrator: Joyce Bean   Published: August 2014, Brilliance Audio   Length: 15 hours 52 minutes   Source: Publisher  From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes an atmospheric and riveting novel of suspense that uncovers the horrifying secrets buried within a ramshackle house. . . Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to…

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Review: The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

Title: The Ship of Brides     Author: Jojo Moyes     Published: Penguin Books, October 2014 Format: ARC e-book, 464 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher   From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures 1946. World War II has ended and all over…

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The Sunday Post #46 (11.2.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ 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 on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  Whew…my crazy work project is finally done…YAY!!! Now…

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Month in Review: October 2014

Hello November!!! Can’t believe there are only two months left in 2014…where is the time going? I think for these next two months, my reading plan is going to be to read my own books. I have a few review books that I need to read, but other than that, I’m going to pick books that have been sitting on my shelf – or at least that’s my plan at…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in October 31

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog My work project is finally done as of Thursday, so my schedule should go back to normal. That means that starting next week, I plan to be back at the gym. Plus, I will be signing up this week for my next 1/2 marathon (walking) that I will be doing once again with my mom! The 1/2 marathon is in…

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