Book info: Title: Within These Lines Author: Stephanie Morrill Genre: YA Historical Fiction Release Date: March 5th, 2019 Publisher: Blink YA Source: ARC received from publisher which did not influence my opinion My rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is everything it “should be” until she falls in […]
This meme was started by Lost in a Story. Here is how it works: Go to your goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books Read the synopses of the books Decide: keep it or should it go? Because I have so many to do, I’m […]
Book info: Title: With Ballet in My Soul – Adventures of a Globetrotting Impresario Author: Eva Maze Published: April 1st, 2017 Publisher: Moonstone Press LLC Source: Received from Book Publicity Services for promo and possible review Synopsis: A life spanning close to 100 years is noteworthy, if only because of its longevity. The rich […]
Once again I downloaded the audio book from the library to go on with this story. And I really enjoyed a lot about this next part in the series. It was filled with so many different periods in history, which was a lot of fun. We didn’t get to see all of the characters that […]
This book is one from the Battle of the Books list for the school district where I am a librarian. I have to write the questions for the competition for this book, so I picked it up to read. I’m glad I picked this book, because it really opened my eyes to things I wasn’t […]
First, thanks to Balzer and Bray and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book. I requested it clear back in November, as soon as I saw it available because I LOVED the first book, Prisoner of Night and Fog, and you can go read my review of that one HERE. What […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is the book I handed out on World Book Night. I actually hadn’t read it yet, so I kept one of those copies for myself, which I will now donate to the high school library where I work part time. I knew it had won awards, and was about World War II, but had […]