Tag: Hitler

Review: Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

I’m not sure exactly who to thank for the ARC of this that I received in the mail about a month ago.  I don’t know if I requested it through a Shelf Awareness giveaway, or if I have maybe got a contact in Scholastic since I emailed last fall and requested Blue Lily, Lily Blue […]

Posted January 26, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday – Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke (Prisoner of Night and Fog #2) by Anne Blankman

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we’re eagerly awaiting.  This week I’ve picked the sequel to a book I LOVED!!  Prisoner of Night and Fog got me really thinking about a period of history I hadn’t really thought about before.  Between World War […]

Posted November 12, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 32 Comments

Review: Flawed (Perfection #2) by J.L. Spelbring

Once again thanks to both Spencer Hill Press and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book.  And it was good to read it almost right after I finished the first one, Perfection, which I reviewed HERE.  And I don’t know if it was because I had just finished the first one […]

Posted July 30, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: Perfection by J.L. Spelbring

First thanks to Spencer Hill Press and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  It actually came out this July, at least in the US.  And I think the sequel, Flawed, which I also have an e-galley of, comes out in August.  So it is nice having them to read together.  […]

Posted July 28, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

A to Z April – H: Historical Fiction

So yesterday I discussed a quick list of “all” of the genres of book that there are, or that I mainly read from or think about.  Today I am going to talk about one that is often my favorite, historical fiction.  While I wouldn’t say that I read a lot of historical fiction titles, the […]

Posted April 9, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 14 Comments

Review Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

First, thanks to Edelweiss and Balzer and Bray for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I always am intrigued and fascinated by stories about World War II.  Actually this book is pre-World War II.  It is from Hitler’s rise.  And what was so interesting about the premise of this book is that […]

Posted April 7, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments