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Review: Eleanor and Grey by Brittainy C. Cherry

Eleanor & Grey, an all-new beautiful and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available now! Greyson East left his mark on me. As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near. Life was perfect…until it wasn’t, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I’d find him again. When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined. I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man. The smile and laugh I had loved so much were gone, now distant memories. Every part of him was covered in a fresh pain. When he realized who I was, he made me promise to do my job and my job only. He made me promise not to try to ge...
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Weekly Round-Up 6/30

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library. I'm reading Once Upon a Thriller by Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew Diaries) and All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior. I'm listening to Chronicles of the Red King: The Secret Kingdom by Jenny Nimmo, read by John Keating. Last week I reviewed The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, narrated by Richard E. Grant.  This week on SYNC you can download Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick, narrated by Noah Galvin (Hachette Audio) and October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman, narrated by Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tom Parks, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Christina Traister (Brilliance Audio). Downloads are free till Wednesday. Thursday the new downloads are Torn from Troy by Patrick ...
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Weekly Round-Up 5/12

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library. I'm reading The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling and All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior. I'm listening to When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket, read by Liam Aiken. Last week I reviewed Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel and We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents? "All Joy and No Fun is an indispensable map for a journey that most of us take without one. Brilliant, funny, and brimming with insight, this is an important book that every parent should read...
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Weekly Round-Up 4/7

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library. I'm reading Dorthy Must Die by Danielle Paige and The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling. I'm listening to Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, read by Khristine Hvam. Last week I reviewed The Here and Now by Ann Brashares and The House of Hades by Rick Riordian. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicke...
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Weekly Round-Up 3/17

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library.  I'm reading Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu. I'm listening to The House of Hades by Rick Riordian, read by Nick Chamian. Last week I reviewed  A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty and Viva Jacquelina! by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren. From NetGalley The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling Publish date: October 1, 2014 Publisher: Capstone By day Remy Brunel is a daring circus acrobat, by night she is an equally talented jewel thief currently assigned to steal a famous diamond in Victorian London--but when the theft goes wrong she finds herself allied with a young policeman as they try to find the elusive gem. The Adventures of Jillian Spectre by Nic Tatano  Publish date: March 13, 2014 Publisher: HarperImp...
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Weekly Round-Up 3/3

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library.  I'm reading A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty. I'm listening to Viva Jacquelina! by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren. Last week I reviewed Of Triton by Anna Banks.  A Corner of White by Jacyln Moriarty. Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World – a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie’s Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello – where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. They are worlds apart – until a crack opens up between them; a corner of white – the slim seam of a letter. A mesmerising story of two worlds; the cracks between them, the science that binds them and the colours...
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Weekly Round-up 2/24

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library.  I'm reading Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel. I'm listening to Viva Jacquelina! by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren. Last week I reviewed Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews and Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan. from NetGalley Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Publish date: May 13, 2014 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to...
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Weekly Round-Up 2/10

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library.  I'm reading Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier. I'm listening to Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews, a book I started in December and then put aside for Fangirl . It's apparently the third in a series so I'll have to go back for the other two sometime. Last week I reviewed The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest––which she intends to win. She throws herself into putting up a Graceland/Blue Christmas motif, with lots of tinsel, an aluminum tree, and all...
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Book Round-Up

The holidays were generous to me in general and especially book-wise. This is going to be a longish post since I got a lot of books over the holidays and quite a few from the library. ARCS from Netgalley The Here and Now by Ann Brashares Publication: April 8th 2014 by Delacorte Press ISBN13: 9780385736800 Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love. Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking,  The Here and Now  is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. Ann Brashares’ first novel for teens since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to. Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-bo...
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