Month: June 2014

Big Book Summer Challenge

Big Book Summer Challenge

Posted June 12, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

I recently found this challenge over at Book By Book, and I thought it sounded great, especially as I found it right as I was starting a book with over 500 pages.  And for this challenge, you only have to pledge to read ONE book over 400 pages.  So how simple is that?  This challenge […]

Review:  (Don’t You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn

Review: (Don’t You) For..

Posted June 11, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

(Don’t You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Thanks to Harper Teen and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this. I didn’t get to it until the day before my e-copy would expire, but it was a read that I was able to pick up […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Books ..

Posted June 11, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by The Broke and The Bookish.   Even though I’ve already posted a review today, I really liked the idea of this week’s Top 10 theme, so I decided to go ahead and join in.  Below are my top 10 books I’ve read so far in 2014, in no particular order. Uninvited […]

Review:  The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

Review: The Murder Complex by..

Posted June 10, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

First thanks to Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I have followed this author as a blogger for a while now, and was very excited to be able to read this book when I saw it was available.  This was a pretty quick read.  It had […]

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading? – June 9th, 2014

It’s Monday! What Are Y..

Posted June 9, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

This weekly meme is sponsored by Book Journey, and we talk about things we read last week, and our plans for what we’ll read this coming week.  Last Week: So, the beginning of last week I was still in New York City after BEA, still visiting with my sister.  I didn’t get hardly any reading […]

Review:  Storm by Donna Jo Napoli

Review: Storm by Donna Jo Nap..

Posted June 8, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

I got a copy of this book through the YA Book Exchange.  I was intrigued by the topic, basically it is a kind of retelling of the story of Noah and the Ark from the bible.  Along with the recent movie and its controversy, the topic seemed like an interesting one to go ahead and […]

BEA 2014 Day 3 Recap (and Book Con)

BEA 2014 Day 3 Recap (and Book..

Posted June 7, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

The last day of BEA is usually much more relaxed.  Not this year however.  Book Con majorly changed that, with anywhere from 6,000-8,000 more people in the Javits Center that day.  Sure, they were kept in only one part of the convention center.  The only problem with that?  It was the section where almost all […]

BEA 2014 Day 2 Recap

BEA 2014 Day 2 Recap

Posted June 6, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

My 2nd day went much better.  After I had sat down the night before and made a definite plan, I was able to avoid a lot of stress, and get pretty much my main books that I had hoped to get, or meet the authors I really wanted to meet.  My day started out by […]

BEA 2014 Day 1 Recap

BEA 2014 Day 1 Recap

Posted June 5, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

So, it is exactly 1 week after the first day of BEA.  I guess that is a fitting day to do a recap.  I thought I was planned and remembered things from when I attended 2 years ago.  But let’s just say that my first day didn’t go as well as I’d hoped.  I definitely […]