Month: July 2014

#ReadOn July 26 4pm Est. #Interview @amytalkington @diannesalerni & @maureenmcquerry #Giveaway via @CrossroadReview

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/687215321344128/ Spreecast.com Event Link: http://sprc.st/p11gu Dianne Salerni Links/Bio/Cover/etc: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-author=Dianne%20K.%20Salerni&linkCode=ur2&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank&tag=theguarofthec-20&linkId=OUSJSPYXTUXLRF3R Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/diannesalerni Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/903992.Dianne_K_Salerni Website: http://www.diannesalerni.com/ Eighth Day Buy Link Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G2AGTFC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00G2AGTFC&linkCode=as2&tag=theguarofthec-20&linkId=EGOYKXF2TCIMHUNR Author Bio: Dianne K. Salerni is an elementary school teacher living in Chester County, Pennsylvania with her husband and two daughters. Dianne’s first novel, We Hear the Dead (Sourcebooks 2010), […]

Posted July 24, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour / 0 Comments

Cover Characteristics – July 23rd, 2014 – Ships

Cover Characteristics is hosted at Sugar and Snark. Here are the guidelines for how it works if you want to join in: Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite covers with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, […]

Posted July 23, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: The Fever by Megan Abbott

This is one I was lucky enough to get an ARC of at BEA this summer, along with an autograph. It was one I wanted for sure, the little synopsis sounded good. But I guess I only read the first sentence or two of that, because I didn’t realize that it was about the same […]

Posted July 22, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: XY by Shanta Everington and Giveaway!

I got an e-copy of this book for being part of the Blog Tour this week. So thanks to the author and also YA Reads Blog Tours. I don’t do a lot of blog tours, but have agreed to do a couple to help out this summer while I have some extra time. I was […]

Posted July 21, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway / 6 Comments

Stacking the Shelves July 20th, 2014

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected. I’ve got quite a bit to share this week! So let’s get started. E-galleys from Netgalley: Friday Free Nook Book: The funny thing is I decided to get this one when I saw a […]

Posted July 20, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in Stacking the Shelves / 6 Comments

Review: Surrounded by Sharks by Michael Northrop

I was lucky enough to get an e-galley of this title from Scholastic through Netgalley. I am a fan of this author, at least I enjoyed another one of his books, Trapped. I’ve also been fascinated with sharks, really who hasn’t, for a long time. I remember watching Shark Week when it first started. Now […]

Posted July 19, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Review: Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs

I was lucky enough to get to see Ransom Riggs back in January, when he was here with Rainy Day Books. It was very interesting to hear him talk about how he started collecting the old photographs that he used for these books. Enough that when I went to a flea market/antique store a few […]

Posted July 18, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone By Graphic Novel by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore

I ordered this book into the high school library where I work because I figured we needed more graphic novels, and surely this would be popular. Of course we didn’t get it until the end of the school year, so I’m hoping to see it get more use next year. I have watched the show […]

Posted July 17, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Summer at Paradise Ranch by R. Barri Flowers

While this isn’t my normal type of book, and I haven’t actually read it yet, I am helping out the YA Reads Blog Tours by posting an interview with the author, R. Barri Flowers. The giveaway is at the end of this post, right before the excerpt of the first two chapters in the book. […]

Posted July 16, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 0 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Favorite TV Shows

Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s theme: Let’s talk about other types of stories! Top Ten Favorite Movies or TV Shows! (can break it down to top ten favorite romance movies or comedy shows etc. etc.) So here are my top 10, there are more shows that I love, […]

Posted July 15, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 16 Comments