7/4/2012

TITLE: The Memory Thief

AUTHOR: Emily Colin

SUMMARY :Before Madeleine Kimble’s mountaineer husband, Aidan, climbs Mount McKinley’s south face, he makes her a solemn vow: I will come back to you. But late one night, Maddie gets the devastating news that Aidan has died in an avalanche, leaving her to care for their son—a small boy with a very big secret. The call comes from J.C., Aidan’s best friend and fellow climber, whose grief is seasoned with survivor’s guilt . . . and something more. J.C. has loved Maddie for years, but he never wanted his chance with her to come at so terrible a cost.

Across the country, Nicholas Sullivan wakes from a motorcycle crash with his memory wiped clean. Yet his dreams are haunted by visions of a mysterious woman and a young boy, neither of whom he has ever met. Convinced that these strangers hold the answers he seeks, Nicholas leaves everything behind to find them. What he discovers will require a leap of faith that will change all of their lives forever.

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TITLE: The Laughterhouse

AUTHOR: Paul Cleave



SUMMARY: Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene—ten year-old Jessica Cole found dead in “the Laughterhouse,” an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the “S” painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later, a new killer arrives in Christchurch, and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica’s murder case, one of whom is the unfortunate Dr. Stanton, a man with three young girls. If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the Laughterhouse, and the city’s suddenly growing murder rate. And he needs to figure it out fast, because Stanton and his daughters have been kidnapped, and the doctor is being forced to make an impossible decision: which one of his daughters is to die first.

7/3/2012

TITLE: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

AUTHOR: Seth Grahme-Smith

This is what I am reading at the moment. So far it is good. I am about 100 pages into it and finding it interesting how they are mixing fiction and fact to create an interesting story

TITLE: Cat & Mouse

AUTHOR: James Patterson

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Since July is adult month I am picking book my second book because it is a book my father said I would like. He read all of the Alex Cross series and told me I would like them. My father and I use to swap books. 

7/2/2012

First off I want to thank you all for your prayers and comments on my last post. I have the best followers anyone could want or be blessed to have. Again thank you.

TITLE: ROT & RUIN

AUTHOR: Jonathan Maberry

SUMMARY : In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash—but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.

  My son saw this book and said he wanted to read it. I think we will be reading this in August when we read young adult books again.

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TITLE:  My Life in Pink & Green

AUTHOR: Lisa Greenwald

SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg is a natural problem solver. After the local homecoming queen shows up at her family’s struggling drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, Lucy has a long line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah. But all the makeup tips in the world won’t help save the pharmacy. If only she could find a way to make the pharmacy the center of town again—a place where people want to spend time, like in the old days. Lucy dreams up a solution that could resuscitate the family business and help the environment, too. But will Lucy’s family stop fighting long enough to listen to a seventh-grader?

Reading this with my daughter just not sure when. We already have a stack to be read to keep us busy for a bit , but may squeeze this one in sooner than we think.


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TITLE: Hereafter

AUTHOR: Tara Hudson

SUMMARY: Can there truly be love after death?
Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life--or her actual death--she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but "will" him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.
Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.

I had this on my watch for Wednesday. I was so happy to get it don't know who I am going to read it with yet well have to wait and see.

Sad Day

I will not be blogging for the upcoming weeks. My father has just passed away and I must attend to family business. I will be blogging again starting July 2nd .


                   Thank you for understanding

6/19/12

 Reading "The Sisters Grimm The Fairy-Tale Detectives" and loving it. I like it for several reasons but the main is because they use every fairy-tale not just the Grimm Brothers.

Next is going to be an adult book, because the movie is comming out in a few days and I want to see it.

6/18/2012

TITLE: The Body Finder

AUTHOR: Kimberly Derting

SUMMARY: Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.

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TITLE: The Gardener

AUTHOR: S.A Boden

SUMMARY: Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children’s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of a horrible experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs—genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don’t need food or water to survive. And before he knows it, Mason is on the run with the girl, and wanted, dead or alive, by the mysterious mastermind of this gruesome plan, who is simply called the Gardener.
Will Mason be forced to destroy the thing he’s longed for most?

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TITLE: Tattoo

AUTHOR: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

SUMMARY: Bailey Morgan isn't the type of girl who shows a lot of skin, but somehow, she ends up in a dressing room at the mall with her friend Delia applying a temporary tattoo to her lower back. Never one to suffer fashion doubt, trendsetter Delia knows exactly where she wants her own tattoo: on her stomach, right where her shirt ends—can you say "midriff"? Annabelle, the quiet one, chooses the back of her neck, and tomboy Zo plasters hers on the top of her foot. The tattoos will last for three days, and Delia's sure that with them, the four friends will absolutely kill at the school dance.

Unfortunately, killing is just what someone has in mind, and Bailey, Delia, Annabelle, and Zo are in for the battle of their lives. Along with her tattoo, each girl receives a gift—a supernatural power to help them in their fight. As Bailey's increasingly frightening dreams reveal the nature of their enemy, it becomes clear to the girls that it's up to them to save the world. And if they can get Delia to stop using her newfound power to turn gum wrappers into Prada pumps, they might actually stand a chance.





6/15/2012

"Archie had fixed tofu burgers that Jake had found so completely inedible he'd fed his in bits to the fat old basser hound under the table --- that the question of whether he would stay or not would be irrelevant. He'd starve to death."

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan   Pg. 43

( I would starve too. Tofu Burgers???? Really )

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"He told Destiny to go back to the main house and take Winston with him, but that was like telling a tidal wave to turn around and go back out to sea."

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan  Pg73&74

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" 'Oh, well. They said that I was too demanding. They said I was a perfectionist. That I didn't respect them --- the stupid, incompetent, clueless ignoramuses.'"

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan  Pg 134