Tag: Stephen King

Top Ten Tuesday – Books/Authors I’m Thankful For

I’m not an every week participant in the Top Ten Tuesday, but being Thanksgiving week, seeing this on blogs I follow I figured I’d join in.  This is sponsored by The Broke and the Bookish.  And the perfect theme for this week is the top 10 books and/or authors that we’re thankful for.  And like […]

Posted November 20, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

My Favorite Books to Movies/Television Shows

Today I’m going to talk about the books that I love that have been turned into movies and what I thought of them.  So there are going to be some good ones, and some bad ones here. 1.  I loved the Twilight series.  The books I mean.  Loved, loved, loved them!  I know many people […]

Posted August 23, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Book Blogger Hop #12 and Follow Friday #9

Seems like I’m only able to fit this in about every other week now that school is getting started again. So let’s just get started! Book Blogger Hop first: The Book Blogger Hope is put on by Crazy For Books. It’s a place for book bloggers and readers to come together over the weekend and […]

Posted August 19, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 20 Comments

Book Blogger Hop #10 and Follow Friday #7

The Book Blogger Hop is sponsored by Crazy for Books and is a place where bloggers and readers connect over the weekend and chat about books. This week’s question is: What is the one genre you wish you could get into, but just can’t? I guess I’d have to pick steampunk probably. I would say […]

Posted July 22, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 19 Comments

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Funny thing about this book, I had ordered an advanced readers copy of this book from a Shelf Awareness email, and set it aside with my other tons of “to-read” books. Forgetting about it, I saw the book sitting on a table in the break room at the bookstore and picked it up to read. […]

Posted January 23, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Finally finished all 1074 pages of this huge novel. Really, it’s actually about the size of another Stephen King novel, It, my favorite King novel of all time. It’s longer than Breaking Dawn, or any of the Harry Potter novels as well. It was good once I got into it, and it isn’t that it […]

Posted January 17, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Miss Understanding by Stephanie Lessing

I actually began this book awhile ago. It was one that I left in my master bathroom to read during bubble baths. But as I was reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels, it sat there waiting to be finished. This book was purchased when I got the crazy idea to search for chick lit books that […]

Posted January 13, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments