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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt

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Synopsis: As her father’s wedding approaches, Christine needs help more than ever to process her grief over her mother’s death, but her friends are all fighting with each other. Review: The second book in the Miracle Girls series, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do has a darker tone than Miracle Girls, and as a result goes a lot deeper. Angsty Christine is angrier and sadder than any of Anne & May’s protagonists to date, and in her pain she’s eminently relatable. They also do a…

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The Best Book I Never Read

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We’ve all seen the lists, we’ve all thought,”I should really read that someday,” but for all of us, there are still books on The List that we haven’t actually gotten around to reading. Even though we know they’re fabulous. Even though we know that we’ll like them. Or that we’ll learn from them. Or just that they’re supposed to be worthy. We just haven’t gotten around to them yet. What’s the best book that YOU haven’t read yet? I’ve got some doozies, for as well-read…

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Interview with The Warded Man Author Peter V. Brett

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I loved The Warded Man and was thrilled that author Peter V. Brett agreed to answer some questions for me by email. Were you thinking “superhero” when you came up with the character of the Warded Man? If so, how did that trope shape your writing? I grew up reading superhero comics, so I guess that sort of thing was always at the back of my head, but I wanted one key difference. In comics, the superheroes almost always come by their special abilities by…

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Win a Special Edition of Revolutionary Road!

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The good folks at Paramount Vantage will send one of my lucky readers a copy of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and all you have to do is leave a comment on this post!! One lucky winner will be chosen at random. You have until 11:59 EST on January 31st to win. The movie opens wide this weekend. Here’s a clip from the film: Open to the US only, sorry my international friends!

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Two Rivers by T. Greenwood

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Synopsis: Haunted by ghosts from his past and memories of his dead wife, Harper Montgomery finds his world thrown off its axis when a pregnant teenager whom he has never met shows up on his doorstep asking for a home. Review: I can only imagine what my fellow subway passengers must have thought of me, as I brushed the tears away from my eyes while popping Cheerios into my Ergo’ed daughter’s mouth as we hurtled through Brooklyn. T. Greenwood’s Two Rivers just about slew me,…

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Interview with Author David Yoo

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I recently raved over David Yoo’s Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before, and I am so excited that he agreed to answer some questions. Hopefully this interview will pique your interest in reading the book! 1.) I could tell you were inspired by teen films from the 80s. What’s your touchstone film? And if Albert & Mia were 80s teen films, which ones would they be? Sixteen Candles was my touchstone film. In my opinion it’s by far the funniest and least corny…

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Thank you, Melissa (Book Nut)

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I participated in the Book Bloggers Christmas Swap, and Melissa the Book Nut was so kind to peek at my Amazon.com wishlist and give me McGee and Stuckey’s The Bountiful Container!! I am so excited to read it this winter and talk to my landlady about putting a container of herbs on her front porch this spring. Thank you Melissa!! And here’s a link to Shelly, who got a secret Santa package from me!

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