Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Laura Childs, one of my all time favorite cozy mystery writers, has another book in her scrapbooking series set in New Orleans coming out in October. Oooh, excitement!

From Amazon.com: With the help of her best friend Ava, Carmela Bertrand is building a giant monster puppet for the Halloween Monsters & Mayhem parade. Things get terrifying earlier than expected when they overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler- and just minutes later they find Fowler's dead body. Carmela has known Jekyl for years and can't believe he'd ever resort to murder, despite the fact that Fowler owed him money. But when another victim is discovered-who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl-Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend and now must find a way to unmask the real killer.

Sounds like a lot of fun, doesn't it? If you haven't read this series, I would recommend starting from the beginning.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (October 5, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425236749
ISBN-13: 978-0425236741

TT & Review: Grace under Pressure by Julie Hyzy

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading and asks you to:


1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share 2 "teaser"sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the "teaser.
4. Please avoid spoilers

This week my teaser is from Grace under Pressure by Julie Hyzy. Here's the teaser:

As Bennett made it through the doorway, he addressed my assistant. "How's the eavesdropping business today, Frances? Learn anything new?"

This is the first in Julie's new Manor House Mystery series and it starts off with a bang! Literally. When a short disturbance in the manor's tea room is followed by a gunshot, recently hired curator, Grace Wheaton, immediately goes into action to see what all the hoopla is about. Abe, the mansions head curator /director has been fatally shot. The crime's location was in an upstairs private study. Grace comes to the conclusion that the shot may not have been meant for Abe but for Bennett Marshfield, the manor's owner.

Within the first two chapters we are introduced to the key players, there's a disturbance in the "Birdcage" and then a murder. Phew! Needless to say I was hooked immediately. Now Grace's years long dream to be in charge of the manor may come true . . . . but at what price? Grace finds out there is a lot more involved than she had anticipated; not just a murderer but also a swindler has cropped up. Hopefully after Bennett's exposing testimony, that will be one less thing to worry about. Or, maybe not! There are some family secrets to be unearthed and a lot of relatives wanting a piece of the Marshfield pie. Can Grace sift through all this and solve the crime before someone decides to take a pot shot at her?

The mystery was well plotted with Hyzy playing fair with her readers supplying some good motives and clues. Grace's two roommates added some delightfully quirky characters to the mix. I really liked Hyzy's new lead character. Grace is a strong protagonist and I look forward to more of her adventures. Grace Under Pressure is a great start to an exciting new series.

For more info on Julie and her books such as the White House chef mysteries, visit her website.

Disclosure: A review copy of the book was provided by the author, Julie Hyzy.

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. Anyone can play along. Just leave a link to your MM at Marcia's blog and follow the links to other blogs to see what books are finding their way to mailboxes around the world. Caveat: participation in MM can cause your tbr list to grow exponentially. *Penguin at mailbox, a copyrighted image, is used with permission from Club Penguin*

Monday:

Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman from SA/Random House

Wednesday:

The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch sent to me by the sweetest blogger in the whole thumb of MI. Ayuh, that's our friend Staci. She even included some adorable little penguin magnetic clips. Be still my heart!! I have some on the refrigerator and one in my current book. Thanks again, Staci. I love 'em!

Saturday:

A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams. Ooh, squee! Can't wait to get to this one!!

Bad Boy by Peter Robinson from SA/William Morrow

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin from SA/William Morrow

How was your mailbox week? What was the highlight?

Review: Wild Irish Sea by Loucinda McGary

From the publisher: "Amber O’Neill knows something is wrong when her twin brother summoning her through the telepathic ability they’ve shared since they were young and rushes to the Ireland to find and save him from the danger she feels in his calling, before it’s too late. Amber enlists the aid of recovering alcoholic and former police inspector Kevin Hennessey, who wants nothing to do with the beautiful American telling him a wild story about murder and danger… But the wildness of the sea, the magical legend of a lost selkie prince, and their own desperate efforts to find and save her missing brother bring them together on levels neither one could ever have imagined. "

My thoughts:

Once again Loucinda McGary managed to mentally transport me to Ireland entertaining me along the way with a little bit of romance, mixed in with a few dangerous characters and some magical elements. Let's just say I'll never look at a seal again with the same feelings. Are they really seals? Some of it may have been a stretch of the imagination, but it still made for a fun story.

I really liked the strong main characters along with the minor ones. The side plot thread of attempted murder, smugglers and dirty police just added to the intensity of the story. It may have been chilly and rainy in Ireland but anywhere near Amber and Kevin, it was hot and sultry! McGary is definitely a "show me," not a "tell me," type of writer.

Despite the book having one of "those" covers, I did enjoy it. Honestly, the cover would have grabbed me just with the spume beating against the rocks and the thatched cottage in the background. I guess it's supposed to denote hot and steamy. All in all, another perfect, summer beach read. 3.5**

If you like this genre of book set in Ireland, you can see my review of Loucinda's book, Wild Sight.

Disclosure: A review copy of the book was provided by Sourcebooks, Inc. Thank you, Danielle!

Show Me 5 Saturday: Judge and Jury by James Patterson & Andrew Gross

SM5 Saturday, a weekly meme started by Alipet813, will give each blogger an opportunity to give a brief description of a book they have read or reviewed during the week. It will work like this: Each Saturday you will post the answer to these questions:

1. Title of book: Judge and Jury by James Patterson & Andrew Gross

2. Words to describe the book: thriller, suspense

3. Location or characters you met:

• Andie DeGrasse: single mom and actress who when called for jury duty tries to get out of it but when she appears before the judge she changes her mind and wants to serve. The trial will totally change her life.


• Nick Pellisante: senior FBI agent who knows more about mafia head, Dom Cavello, than any one else in the bureau. He's made Dom his sole focus for the last several years and when events conspire to take away his official standing, Nick takes the law into his own hands and sets out to get some vigilante justice.


• Dom Cavello: one of the most truly evil, amoral characters Patterson has come up with. Dom uses his mafia influence to evade being put away time after time. Even the jurors and judge are afraid of him. Just when Nick thinks this time will be different, Dom has two hired guns commit an unheard of crime that is so heinous it stuns everyone and sets in motion a world wide man hunt.

4. Things you liked/disliked about the book:

• I loved the page-turning non-stop action that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout most of the book


• liked the chilling inside look at mafia eschelons


• the lead and peripheral characters were well fleshed out and believable


• I liked the relationship that developed between Nick and Andie

5. Stars or less for your rating: Because I had a hard time putting this one down, it earns 4 **** from me. A lot of Patterson's recent books feel too formulaic but this one, imho, was one of his better thrillers. It certainly got my attention!

Disclosure: A copy of this book was borrowed from the county library system. Thanks to my tax dollars!

Winners: 3 copies of The Pearls of the Stoneman

Another contest ends: Pearls of the Stoneman and another one begins: Swallow by Tonya Plank. The winners picked by random.org have been notified and they are:

Kay

gcpeach

Andrea

Congrats! I hope you enjoy the book.

Guest Post & Giveaway: Swallow by Tonya Plank

Today, I have the privilege of introducing Tonya Plank, an author who would like to tell you a little bit about her unique new book, Swallow. Lets all welcome Tonya. At the end of the guest post, you can enter the three copy giveaway for a chance to win her book.

by Tonya Plank

The novel is called Swallow and it's about a 26-year-old lawyer, Sophie, who lives and works in Manhattan. She's originally from a small, working-class town in Arizona and through hard work she ends up getting into and graduating from a prestigious law school. She's just begun her first law job, as a New York City public defender, and she's just received a marriage proposal from her boyfriend of several years when she's suddenly stricken with a psychosomatic disorder called Globus Hystericus, or Globus Sensation, which is the sensation of having a ball in your throat when there isn't actually anything there. It's an anxiety disorder but it can have very real physical repercussions, such as difficulty eating and drinking, speaking, and sometimes even breathing. Sophie suffers all these things. She begins to lose weight rapidly, which eventually makes her physically as well as mentally weak, and she also has difficulty giving oral arguments in court due to speaking problems. The novel details her attempt to overcome her problem, by figuring out what's causing it and then by learning how to handle that.

I wrote this book because I suffered from the disorder and wanted to let people know what it was like. It's really not that uncommon and there isn't really much written about it. And, some of the things that can cause it - deeply rooted low self-esteem, anxiety, for example - are things that a lot of people can relate to. Writing helped me to deal with it.

I also wanted to write about New York, and I really tried to make New York a character in the book (I actually just won an award from Independent Publisher magazine for best novel set in the Northeast). Sophie comes from a very working-class background (her father makes porn movies, her mother does clerical work in a prison, and her sister lives in a trailer) but, because she manages to graduate from Yale, she ends up finding herself in this environment with all of these very privileged people, who can sometimes be rather elitist and talk down to her without really even knowing it. At the same time, her clients are the opposite -- some of New York's poorest. So, the dichotomy can be very jarring for her, and she ends up at times identifying with her clients more than her peers. The feeling of not fitting in, of having these class differences and being talked down to a lot, of constantly defending both her clients and herself, and of having family members so different from her who really can't understand her, really takes its toll on her.

I practiced law for several years as an appellate public defender and I developed strong feelings about the way the criminal justice system treated certain people, and I wanted to write about that.

Also, I was very affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (I actually began writing the book in early 2002). My office was only a couple blocks away. And I really wanted to write about that -- not necessarily what happened that day, because everyone already knows that -- but about the aftermath, and how average New Yorkers were handling all the bomb scares and being fearful of people on the subways and buses all the time. You didn't want to be scared, and you definitely didn't want to fear people based on how they looked, because everyone knows how wrong that is, but it was very hard not to do that, and people struggled with it. Plus, there was the horrible sadness of it all.

And finally, I also wanted to write about a certain kind of father daughter relationship. I feel like there are a lot of novels about mothers and daughters and fathers and sons but not a lot about fathers and daughters. Sophie's father left the family when she was a child to go to LA to start a film career in soft-core porn. Through the years she retained more of a relationship with him than her sister, since he always favored her. But every time she sees him he focuses on her physicality and talks to her like she's one of his actresses and it makes her very uncomfortable. She basically has to learn how to set boundaries with him and with everyone else as well, and the novel's ultimately about claiming your own identity, about finding your own voice so to speak.

The novel was published in December and it won a gold medal for best regional fiction in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the gold medal for women's fiction in the 2010 Living Now Book Awards, and was a finalist in general fiction in the 2009 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards and in the National Indie Excellence Awards.

I'm currently working on my second novel, which is about a police shooting. I also write a blog about dance performances that I see (I used to ballroom dance) and other things I do in New York, which you can find at http://www.tonyaplank.com/. You can read an excerpt of Tonya's novel here too.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to chat about my book and if you read it, I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you Tonya for that interesting piece- now, doesn't the book sound enticing? Don't you want to read it right now?

Luckily for you, Tonya is generously giving away 3 autographed copies of her new book. Just leave a comment telling us you would like to win.

Be sure to leave an e-mail contact.
Open to residents of US & Canada
Deadline to enter is June 30th at 5 P.M. (est)

Bonus entries can be earned by:
+3 posting about the giveaway or putting a link on your sidebar
+3 Tweeting and leave me a link
Good luck!

Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme started by Miz B at Should be Reading and asks you to:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share 2 "teaser"sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the "teaser.

4. Please avoid spoilers

This week's teaser is taken from Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank.

"Civilized? You call yourself civilized? I'd call you a snob maybe, a self-centered momma's boy philanderer living with a tramp, maybe. But civilized? No, I don't think it is

civilized to offer me money to sell my children."

A little over I know, but I just couldn't cut this one to two sentences. Here's one more from the same book that made me chuckle.

"But when we'd argue and I would decide it was time to say good-bye forever, he would show up at my door with five pounds of bacon. That's about all it took to sustain us for another month or so; I'm a fool for pork."

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. Anyone can play along. Just leave a link to your MM at Marcia's blog and follow the links to other blogs to see what books are finding their way to mailboxes around the world. Caveat: participation in MM can cause your tbr list to grow exponentially. *Penguin at mailbox, a copyrighted image, is used with permission from Club Penguin*

Here are the three books that showed up this week.

Monday: Welcome to Harmony by Jodi Thomas, won from Mary at Bookfan Mary. Thanks again, Mary!

Thursday: Holly's Inbox: Scandal in the City by Holly Denham from Sourcebooks for review in October. Thanks, April!

Friday: Inside Out by Barry Eisler for review from the author. Thanks so much Barry for the autographed copy.

Well, there you have it - what fantastic reads showed up in your mailbox ?

SM5 Saturday: A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand

Show Me 5 Saturday, a meme started by Alipet813, will give each blogger an opportunity to give a brief description of a book they have read or reviewed during the week. It will work like this: Each Saturday you will post the answer to these questions:

1. Title of Book: A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand

2. Words to describe the book: romantic fiction

3. Location or characters you met:

• Claire Danner Crispin: local glass artist and mother of 4 who somehow gets roped into being a co-chair for the Nantucket Children's Summer Gala. The Gala is considered the grandest social fund raiser event of the summer and invitations are much coveted even though minimum donation is $1,000.00. Claire, who has not been doing any glass work for two years due to an accident in the "hot box" studio, is feeling adrift and unappreciated by her husband Jason. When she starts an affair with Lock Dixon, the Gala director, she puts herself, her career and her family on a very slippery slope.


• Siobhan Crispin: Claire's best friend and sister-in-law who along with her husband runs a very upscale catering firm on the island. Siobhan may be Claire's best friend but still she has always felt a little bit of resentment towards Claire. Her impoverished Irish Catholic childhood still clings to her soul. When Siobhan finds out about Claire's affair with Lock, she is appalled and threatens to tell all to the whole town if Claire does not give up seeing Lock. Will this put a real wedge in the family that can ever be repaired? Will Siobhan snap Claire back to her senses?


• Max West : now a huge music star but he was once just Matthew Westfield, Claire's first love. Since the Gala needs some high powered entertainment, Claire is asked to get Max to perform for the charity. Even though Max is an international icon he's set himself on a path to self destruction and self disillusion; he's virtually an alchoholic who is still in love with Claire and thinks he can win her back. What will Claire choose to do? And with whom?

4. Things you liked/disliked about the book:

• Hilderbrand casts a wealth of diverse characters I thoroughly enjoyed.


• I liked the many plot threads that were so deftly woven into the whole story; marriage, adultery, parenthood, stardom and addictions to just name a few.


• The glass blowing aspect of the book was really interesting and gave Claire some real depth as a character as she struggled with her artistry and her husbands feelings toward her work.


• All the characters and realistic dialogue rang true to me; Hilderbrand got their emotions, thoughts, hopes and dreams to easily come through the writing.

5. Stars or less for your rating. 4**** for this delightful, easy read perfect for lazy days at the beach.

Disclosure: Thanks to the county library system for the loan of this book.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading and asks you to:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share 2 "teaser"sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the "teaser.
4. Please avoid spoilers

Today's Teaser is from The Pearls of the Stoneman by Edward Mooney, Jr. If you like what you see, you can enter the 3 book giveway on the original post.

"Damn it! You can't run and hide forever in Pine Mountain and think that this will go away. Anne . . . .I'm trying to do the best thing for you," Joseph said, controlling his anger as best as he could.

Giveaway: The Pearls of the Stoneman by Edward Mooney Jr.

From the publisher: The Pearls of the Stone Man is an inspirational novel with plot elements that touch both older and younger generations. Main characters Joseph and Anne Marino are rare. They’re still in love after 53 years of marriage and with little time left, Joseph’s priority becomes finishing the stone wall that Anne requested years ago – a special reminder from her childhood.

Needing the help of someone younger, Joseph turns to his son, estranged for five years, in hopes of rebuilding a severed relationship as well as the wall. Two teenagers also come to Joseph’s aide, and he to theirs, as they all work to finish Joseph’s promise to Anne.

The Pearls of the Stone Man was written in the town in which the book is set: Pine Mountain, California. The settings in the novel are real locations and Edward takes groups of readers there regularly.

Edward filmed 5 short video vignettes highlighting the real settings of The Pearls of the Stone Man. You can watch # 4, The Stone Wall here:

Edward filmed 5 short video vignettes highlighting the real settings of The Pearls of the Stone Man. Check them out at: http://www.edwardmooney.com/pearls-author-visit.htm or,

Episode 1: The Letter
Episode 2: The Marino Home
Episode 3: The Forest
Episode 4: The Stone Wall
Episode 5: The Village

Sourcebooks is allowing me to give away 3 copies of this wonderful book.
Just leave a comment with your thoughts on one of the videos. Please include an e-mail address .

+3 Bonus entries can be earned by posting about the contest, tweeting or putting a link in your sidebar.
Open to residents of US & Canada
Deadline is June 23rd at 5PM

Good luck!

Review: Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton

From the back cover: "Kathy Spence awakens in the middle of the night and finds herself in a living nightmare, her husband has been run down and she is the primary suspect. With an eyewitness to the crime and proof that her car was the murder weapon, it appears to be and open-and-shut case.

Terrified for her future, Kathy turns to amateur sleuth, Anne Marshall, for help. Believing in Kathy's innocence, Anne launches her own investigation, uncovering proof of a conspiracy tht reaches from Kathy's past and threatens her own life.

In a race against time, Anne must count on her close friends and even the ghost of her father to help her bring a killer to justice before it's too late.

My thoughts: Revenge Served Cold is billed as a mystery/suspense book but unfortunately, for me anyway, there was almost no suspense and not much of a mystery. There were two viable suspects introduced in the first couple of chapters and it was so easy to figure out the murderer and the motives. I thought the characters were not fleshed out at all and what was revealed about them was entirely implausible. Do you honestly think the prime suspect's lawyer would have Anne, a law student, look over the case file and ask her if she sees something missing? Not likely! Would police detectives not question the neighbors to see if they saw anything unusual? When Anne brings certain facts to the detectives attention, he has a Homer Simpson moment and asks "why didn't we think of that?" I could almost picture him saying "DUH" as he smacked his forehead.

How could this book be improved? If the author wanted to keep the paranormal and amateur sleuth elements in the story, it would be better to call this a cozy. There is a lot more leeway in the unbelievable in a cozy. Readers almost expect the amateur sleuth to solve the crime but even in a cozy the characters are not so cliched and situations are not quite as contrived.

I could go on and on but I want potential readers to make up their own mind. Maybe other readers won't mind not being able to connect with any of the characters or the very unrealistic dialogue throughout the book but for me these things do matter so the book did not work for me at all. It didn't pull me in at the beginning and it never managed to grab me for the rest of the story. Sorry, but this one gets a 2** It left me with that flat "meh" feeling.

Disclosure: A review copy of the book was provided by Rebecca at The Cadence Marketing Group.

Fortune cookie says . . . .

It sure is for the two lucky winners of Robyn Carr's giveaway. Random.org picked #'s 5 and 25 and those 2 fortunate people are Mary and Nancye. Both won on a bonus entry!! Ayuh, it's worth going that extra step. I hope you both enjoy Robyn's books.

Show Me 5 Saturday: The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells

Show Me 5 Saturday, a meme started by Alipet813, will give each blogger an opportunity to give a brief description of a book they have read or reviewed during the week. It will work like this: Each Saturday you will post the answer to these questions:

1. Title of book: The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells

2. Words to describe the book: YA novel

3. Location or characters you met:

• Mia Gordon: 16 year old Georgia girl vacationing at her cousins' beach house, Wind Song, in the Hamptons for the summer with her parents and younger sister Eva. Mia has been looking forward to spending a lot of time on the beach and re-bonding with her cousin Corrine whom she hasn't seen for 3 summers. She can't wait to discuss how her boyfriend Jake just dumped her. Three years is a lot of time in teen hood and when Mia arrives at the beach house, she is amazed at the change in her cousins Corrine and Beth. Okay, so she was never too close to Beth and neither was Corrine but now they seem joined at the hip and both have an attitude that worries Mia. Not that Mia is overly straight-laced, but she can't see the point in getting drunk and experimenting in drugs. Mia begins to feel like the country rube beside her two cousins and their wordly wise, sophisticated so called friends.
• Corrine: once Mia's closest cousin and confidante but now in three short years she has become a very jaded and over indulged 16 year old. To Mia's consternation, Corrine is now a girl who likes to party hearty, hang out with some shallow dubious characters and doesn't seem to have too much time for Mia. Occasionally, she tries to be the girl she once was but those incidences are short lived. Mia is truly concerned for her especially after she witnesses Corrines actions during a beach party. Where did Corrine's ambition to be a ballerina go? Or was that really her mother's ambition? She was a truly gifted dancer and now she is throwing all that to the wind to be Miss-oh-so- sophisticated. Everything to Corrine is "tedious" or so she tells Mia.
• Simon: teen self -proclaimed artist living in the rental house besides Wind Song. Simon is not too much the party type since his previous summer's humiliation with one of Corrine's friends. When he first sees Mia, he notices she is not like her superficial cousins. He likes to spend time on the beach at night and so does Mia. Simon teaches Mia that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder and to live in the moment is not such a bad thing. These two, with their common love of the ocean and swimming, begin a real friendship, memories of which will stay with Mia for years to come.

4. Things you liked/disliked about the book:

• I really liked Mia as narrator. She has an authentic voice in her perspective. As a character, Mia is endearing. I liked the way she showed her feelings and thoughts about what was going on with her cousins. At times she envies them and wants to be one of the "in" crowd and yet she truly doesn't want to be like them. Such conflict! Howells does a terriffic job in getting that angst across to the reader. I think any teen can easily identify with these feelings.
• Howells managed to put me in the scene very early on and it was easy to feel Mia's sense of anticpation before arriving in the Hamptons and her sense of disappointment at how things really turned out.
• Mia's and Corrine's relationship with their mothers was very well done. Mia felt her mother didn't understand her true nature, wanting her to be something she wasn't going to be; a thin, social butterfly. I'm sure many teens could easily relate to that age old conflict.
• Friendships, relationships, loves lost and found, self-esteem, coming of age and learning that life is a balance of both the beautiful and the not so beautiful are just a few of the well developed themes in the book.

5. Stars or less for your rating: 4**** For a debut novel, this one is excellently done. I have not read too many books in the YA category but I thought this one was very enjoyable, easily read and had a lot of great insight into teenagers' perceptions of themselves and the world around them. The story flowed easily with very believable dialogue and characters in an interesting plot that kept me turning the pages. No dry spots here at all! Highly recommended.

About the author: Amanda Howells has always lived near the sea. She grew up on a small bay on the Atlantic ocean, spent summer weekends in the Hamptons while a college student in New york City, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. She is a veteran ghostwriter of such bestselling series as Sweet Valley High and Fearless, and this is her first original YA novel.

Note: This book has numerous possibilities for discussion and would be a good selection for a bookclub or to be read by mothers and daughters together.

Disclosure: A review copy of the book was provided by Sourcebooks. Thanks, Carrie!

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is hosted each week by Marcia at The Printed Page. Anyone can play along. Just leave a link to your MM at Marcia's blog and follow the links to other blogs to see what books are finding their way to mailboxes. Caveat: participation in MM can cause your tbr list to grow exponentially. *Penguin at mailbox copyrighted image used with permission from Club Penguin .*

Only three books showed up this week and that is okey dokey by me as I have been reading a lot of library books this week and have some other books that need reviewing.

Thursday: Pearls of the Stoneman by Edward J. Mooney from Sourcebooks. Look for a 3 book giveaway for this one on 6/15/10.

Saturday: Grace Under Pressure (A Manor House mystery) by Julie Hyzy for review. Don't you just love the cover? I can't wait to get to this one! Thanks, Julie.

This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia from Jason Liebman at Henry Holt & Co. Thanks, Jason.