February 2016 – Always With a Book

k2reader February 29, 2016

Review: The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris

Title:The Edge of Lost Author:Kristina McMorris Published:November 2015, Kensington Format:Paperback, 340 pages Source:Publisher via She Reads From New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris comes an ambitious and heartrending story of immigrants, deception, and second chances. On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard’s only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden’s greenhouse,…

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k2reader February 29, 2016

Review: Losing the Light by Andrea Dunlop (audio)

Title:Losing the Light Author:Andrea Dunlop Narrator:Cassandra Campbell Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:10 hours 27 minutes Source:Publisher A smart, obsessive debut novel about a young woman studying abroad who becomes caught up in a seductive French world—and a complex web of love and lust. When thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her past, she’s plunged headlong into memories she’s long tried to forget about the year she spent…

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k2reader February 28, 2016

#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in February 26

#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I got 2 more 5K’s in…but still trying to get a 10K in for this month…not sure it’s going to happen in February, but I do have a few more days, so we’ll see what happens. Here’s how my week went: Feb 20: 7,334 stepsFeb 21: 6,249 steps Feb 22: …

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k2reader February 25, 2016

Review: White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra (audio)

Title: White Gardenia Author: Belinda Alexandra Narrator: Deirdre Rubenstein Published: 2015 Bolinda Publishing / Gallery Books Length: 17 hours 48 minutes / ARC E-copy 480 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that “depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters” (Paullina Simons, author of The Bronze Horseman). In a district of the city of Harbin,…

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k2reader February 23, 2016

Review: What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross

Title: What Was Mine Author: Helen Klein Ross Published: January 2016, Gallery B0oks Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does…

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k2reader February 21, 2016

#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in February 19

#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About This was a good week I got two good walks in and remembered to use this great app I have on my phone – Charity Miles, so that all my steps get counted for good!!! I’ve decided to support Girls on the Run because my one niece, Morgan, is a runner and does…

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k2reader February 18, 2016

Short & Sweet Review: Bones in Her Pocket by Kathy Reichs (audio)

Title: Bones in Her Pocket Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Brennan, #15.5 Narrator: Linda Emond Published: December 2013, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Source: Library A new story featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—from #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX TV’s Bones producer, Kathy Reichs. When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina’s Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is…

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k2reader February 15, 2016

Review & Giveaway: The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley (audio)

Title: The Ramblers Author: Aidan Donnelley Rowley Narrator: Erica Sullivan Published: February 2016, Harper Audio / William Morrow Length: 11 hours 24 minutes / 400 pages Source: Personal Copy via Audible / ARC Paperback via Publicist For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their…

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k2reader February 14, 2016

#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in February 12

#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a relatively quiet week this past week. My sister was having her baby on Friday and since I intended on being there at the hospital, I wanted to make sure I didn’t get sick again. I decided to take every precaution of not catching any germs – I worked from home…

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k2reader February 12, 2016

Review: No Ordinary Life by Suzanne Redfearn

Title: No Ordinary Life Author: Suzanne Redfearn Published: February 2016, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC E-copy, 400 pages Source: Netgalley via Publicist Suzanne Redfearn delivers another gripping page-turner in her latest novel, a story about a young mother’s fight to protect her children from the dangerous world of Hollywood. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and her three children . . . or that she’d have to…

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k2reader February 10, 2016

Review: The Doll’s House by M.J. Arlidge

Title: The Doll’s House Author: M.J. Arlidge Series: Helen Grace, #3 Published: February 2016, NAL Format: ARC E-copy, 432 pages Source: Netgalley The bestselling author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel brings back Detective Helen Grace, who is hot on the trail of a twisted serial killer in this gripping new thriller. Detective Helen Grace is on the trail of a twisted serial killer in this gripping thriller…

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k2reader February 8, 2016

Book Spotlight: Platinum Doll by Anne Girard

Title: Platinum Doll Author: Anne Girard Published: January 2016, MIRA Format: Paperback, 368 pages Set against the dazzling backdrop of Golden Age Hollywood, novelist Anne Girard tells the enchanting story of Jean Harlow, one of the most iconic stars in the history of film It’s the Roaring Twenties and seventeen-year-old Harlean Carpenter McGrew has run off to Beverly Hills. She’s chasing a dream—to escape her small, Midwestern life and…

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k2reader February 7, 2016

#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in February 5

#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a pretty good week. I got my first 5K of the month in – thanks to insomnia!!! I’m so glad my gym opens so early…lol!!! I think I was at the gym at 4:15am that morning and I don’t even work on Mondays 🙂 But, it was great getting it…

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k2reader February 5, 2016

Review & Guest Post: In Another Life by Julie Christine Johnson

Title: In Another Life Author: Julie Christine Johnson Published: February 2016, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via publicist Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region’s quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows…

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k2reader February 3, 2016

Book Spotlight: The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young (w/ link to Review)

Last Spring, at BEA, I was fortunate to pick up an advanced copy of The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young, a book the publisher and publicists were praising. So of course, I was ecstatic when I heard it was one of the She Reads ‘Books of Winter’ selections. I read it over the summer and devoured it, and cannot wait until the next book comes out in the series.…

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k2reader February 1, 2016

Month in Review: January 2016

Here are my reading stats for January! Books read: 11 Books I read: Me Before You — Jojo Moyes Lost & Found in Cedar Cove — Debbie Macomber (e-book) The Forgotten Room — Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig (e-book) After the Crash — Michel Bussi Bones Are Forever — Kathy Reichs (audio) The Things We Keep — Sally Hepworth (e-book) Avenged — Elizabeth Heiter (e-book) The Storm Sister —…

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