tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396Sat, 26 May 2012 07:44:21 +0000GiveawaysARCgotta readsreviewsfavoritesfunnyguest reviewyikesvacationmoviesFriday Fill-insoccasionsTuesday ThingersbooksFriday FindsSanta Fe Writers Projectnewguest postWordless WednesdayMailbox Mondaynonfictione-bookcuriousityhuh?headlinesBlog ToursFriday Flossaudio bookmemesDiscussionocassionsfamilyremodelingawardswinnersContestscrankyCrittersFabulosorecipesWonderous Words Wednesdaywanna readsmusingsfictionTen on TuesdayLike most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me. - "Losing Julia" by Jonathan Hullhttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kelly)Blogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-3363156979270186572Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:00:00 +00002011-02-22T00:00:06.652-08:00reviewsARCe-bookbooksFrom Fantastic Fiction—Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thiefAt twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.Now, with a new http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2011/02/preston-and-childs-gideons-sword-worth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-7615090435080002166Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:57:00 +00002011-01-29T11:09:27.934-08:00reviewsARCe-bookIn Brad Meltzer’s The Inner Circle, conspiracies and mysteries span the centuries. The protagonist of the novel, Beecher White, is an archivist who works at the National Archives in Washington D.C. Beecher is struggling to recover from a recent split with his fiancé when an old childhood crush appears back into his life. Clementine Kaye contacts Beecher and asks him to help her find her long http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2011/01/brad-meltzers-inner-circle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2073881275334083926Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:13:00 +00002011-01-25T14:24:02.267-08:00reviewsREAGLE BEAGLE by Eddie MejiaMr. and Mrs. Beagle have been blessed with four puppies, three girls and a boy. The girls are a rambunctious bunch; happy, mischievous and energetic. But their boy, Reagle, never speaks, plays alone and avoids contact with his siblings. Mr. and Mrs. Beagle are quite concerned about Reagle and encourage him to join in. One day, while playing, the girls get into quite ahttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2011/01/reagle-beagle-by-eddie-mejia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-3426550567559309769Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +00002010-07-13T01:00:02.182-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionIn Lisa Gardner’s newest entry into her D. D. Warren series, Live to Tell, D.D. is investigating a brutal and heartbreaking crime. An apparent murder-suicide has occurred in one of Boston’s neighborhoods, and the father, who is a suspect, is barely alive in the ICU. Mostly written off as a murder-suicide, Detective Warren believes that there is more to this case. Investigating this tragedy will http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/my-review-of-live-to-tell-by-lisa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2689540428083737525Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-07-11T03:00:01.179-07:00Synopsis from Fantastic Fiction website:Cemetery DanceWilliam Smithback, a NY Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, are found brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Eyewitnesses claim and the security camera confirms the killer seen leaving the building was the strange, sinister man who had previously occupied http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/another-two-fer-cemetery-dance-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-8051016923739082354Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-07-09T03:00:06.188-07:00reviewsbooksfictionIn 1692, Susannah Layhem, who is a healer and purveyor of herbs and natural healing stands accused of witchcraft. Subsequently convicted and while awaiting her execution, she delivers her stillborn baby, alone and frightened in a filthy jail cell. She is burned at the stake, but as she dies, she is confronted by a demon named Rabishu. She is filled with anger and bitterness and accepts his offer http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/dark-time-mortal-path-by-dakota-banks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-8218097978203710134Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-07-07T03:00:10.921-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionFrom www.amyefaw.comWho would leave her own baby in the trash to die?Certainly not someone like Devon—straight-A student, soccer player with Olympic dreams, more mature than her own mother. But desperation and panic drove her to do what most people can’t even imagine. Now Devon’s in a juvenile detention center charged with attempted murder. If she’s tried as an adult, she faces life in http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/after-by-amy-efaw-darn-good-teen-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2316484261797865638Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-07-05T03:00:01.365-07:00nonfictionreviewsbooksfavoritesFrom Barnes and NobleThe day Monica learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son, Wills, has autism spectrum disorder, she takes him to buy an aquarium. It's the first in a string of impulsive trips to the pet store to buy animals as a distraction from the uncontrollable, crushing reality of Wills's diagnosis. But while Wills diligently tends to the growing menagerie, what he really http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/moms-will-love-cowboy-and-wills-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-548124690369426913Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-07-02T03:00:09.393-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionOne beautiful morning, Rose Mae Grandee got her Pawpy’s old gun from the box she’d hidden in the closet and went to shoot her husband, Thom, while he was on his morning run. All because a gypsy at the airport told her to. I’m not kidding. And as absurd as this sounds, it is the beginning of a really good book. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson is the story of Rose Mae, a beautiful young woman, http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/07/cue-applause-for-backseat-saints-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-221267920313217983Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-06-30T04:50:07.880-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionSynopsis (fantasticfiction.co.uk)Julia 'Jules' Farentino knows that her teenaged half-sister, Shaylee, has been having problems lately. But when she learns of her mother's plan to send Shay to an elite boarding school in southern Oregon, she's skeptical. The Academy is a remote, secluded institution with a reputation for turning wayward kids around. With its emphasis on structure, discipline, andhttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/without-mercy-by-lisa-jackson-let-rant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2072962654316976811Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-06-28T03:00:01.040-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionMary Beth Latham is the mother of three kids, has a good marriage, and a small thriving landscaping business. Like most mom’s, if you were to ask Mary Beth which of these was the most important and defining role in her life, she’d say it was motherhood. Mary Beth is a good mom, and when one of her kids, Max, sinks into a deep depression, she focuses her concern on him, certain that her other http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/reviewing-every-last-one-by-anna.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2368488194563547389Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-06-25T03:00:05.827-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionIn Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth, we meet Zach Barrows, an ambitious go-getter working in the White House. He anticipates a career in public service and expects an almost meteoric rise. But his career takes an unexpected detour when he is assigned to assist a Secret Service agent, Nathaniel Cade. Like all Secret Service agents, Cade is sworn to protect the president. However Cade is unlikehttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/blood-oath-by-christopher-farnsworth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-8186992036479759173Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +00002010-06-23T06:22:30.354-07:00gotta readsreviewsARCbooksIsn’t it odd, how similar things often appear simultaneously? Remember that "disaster summer" at the movies, Deep Impact and Armageddon? It seems like I inadvertently read similar books near the same time too. Two such books, which I probably should review individually, (but heck..it’s my blog and I’ll double up is I want to) were Hush by Kate White and Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd. In http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/two-reviews-in-one-hush-by-kate-white.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-7619098565210993178Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +00002010-06-20T05:00:03.598-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionfavoritesFrom Fantastic Fiction website'It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.' First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/passage-by-justin-cronin-youve-gotta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-458089512101805646Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +00002010-06-18T06:25:36.334-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionWhile on a medical conference trip in Wyoming, Maura Isles, a medical examiner from Boston, meets up with an old friend from med school. On the spur of the moment, she joins him, his daughter and two other friends on a ski trip. On the way to the ski lodge, they take a wrong turn and end up stuck on a little used road in the mountains just as a blizzard begins. On foot, they find a small road andhttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/reviewing-ice-cold-by-tess-gerritsen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-598592351601461104Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:26:00 +00002010-06-16T08:30:08.727-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionWhen Bennie Rosato is invited to her identical twins for a housewarming dinner, she never suspects the true motive behind the invitation. Alice Connelly, Bennie’s twin is in big trouble; her drug-dealing partners are trying to find and kill her. Alice has decided the only way out of her trouble is to kill her twin and assume her identity. She believes her plan as worked and she fools everyone. http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/my-review-of-think-twice-by-lisa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-2312644634137872127Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:54:00 +00002010-06-10T08:01:21.782-07:00reviewsARCe-bookfictionKnot Crew, a twelve-year-old African American boy in a small South Georgia town, finds a bag of cash dropped by a bank robber in an alley. Alternating between fear and joy, Knot takes the cash home. He knows he can’t spend it; Knot is a good boy with a strong moral compass and he’s smart enough to know that if he’s caught with it, he’ll be in real trouble. After a great deal of thought, he http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/06/review-of-little-known-by-janice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-3566085574872153837Sat, 29 May 2010 19:10:00 +00002010-05-29T12:11:56.121-07:00reviewsARCbooksfictionIn this second in the “Jack McClure” series, author Eric Van Lustbader takes us on a Ludlem-esque journey from the island of Capri to Moscow to the Ukraine. Political intrigue, deals and double-crosses, diplomats, organized crime figures, rotten politicians and secret agents a-plenty. The Last Snow has a complicated plot line, all centering upon a treaty being signed by Russia and the United http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/05/my-review-of-last-snow-by-eric-van_29.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-7330181657962212960Fri, 14 May 2010 07:01:00 +00002010-05-14T00:01:01.892-07:00Blog ToursreviewsbooksfictionPhantom Prey, published in May of 2008 is the eighteenth installment of John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series. Phantom Prey begins with the disappearance and suspected murder of the adult daughter of a wealthy widow, Alyssa Austin. Austin has returned home one evening and discovered her security system had been turned off, and there are bloodstains on the walls. The blood belongs to her http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/05/days-of-prey-tour-phantom-prey-by-john.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-7897605792011487347Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:18:00 +00002010-04-04T13:25:04.514-07:00reviewsbooksfictionThe tagline in Jonathan Maberry’s novel Patient Zero reads, “ When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills…and there’s nothing wrong with joe Ledger’s skills." Okay, my interest is piqued. In this novel, the first book in the Joe Ledger series, Joe is a Baltimore detective who has been assigned to anhttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/04/patient-zero-is-pure-butt-kickin-zombie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-8754761171593037686Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:00 +00002010-03-27T20:02:11.671-07:00reviewsARCe-bookbooksfictionFrom Amazon:Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a party at a Florida beachside mansion turned into a savage killing spree, and she was one of the few to survive. Bloody handwriting on the walls pointed to a cult whose rituals included human sacrifice. Chloe’s sketch of one of the killers linked two dead cult members found in the Everglades to the massacre, closing the case as far http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/03/killing-edge-by-heather-grahamoh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-8804912754904219946Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:41:00 +00002010-03-20T07:16:26.233-07:00nonfictionreviewsARCe-bookbooksOn September 12, 1944, the USS Pampanito, was part of a submarine “wolf pack” patrol along with the USS Growler and USS Sealion. Coming upon a convoy of ships, the Pampanito fired upon and sunk a transport ship, a tanker and badly damaged a third ship. When she moved back into the area of the original attack three days later, her crew found men clinging to makeshift rafts. After moving closer tohttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/03/lucky-73-uss-pampanitos-unlikely-rescue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-6152007638359140391Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:01:00 +00002010-03-14T12:11:19.243-07:00reviewsbooksfictionAfter another long night of anger and alcohol, Ig Perrish wakes to a pounding headache, and a pair of horns growing out of his temples. The second son of a “golden” family, reared in a life of comfort and privilege, Ig’s father is a famous musician, his mother a former showgirl and his older brother is a late-night television star. Ig met the love of his life, Merrin Williams while still a kid. http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/03/horns-by-joe-hill-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-68622933209693991Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +00002010-03-10T08:00:02.908-08:00nonfictionreviewsARCbooksAmy Rosenblatt Solomon was only 38 years old when an undiagnosed and asymptomatic heart condition caused her to collapse and die. Amy’s father and mother, Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt moved into her family’s home to help her husband with their three small children. Roger has written a heartfelt memoir of the making of a new life and a new family after the loss of the central character. Making Toasthttp://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/03/review-making-toast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-6033141522843030404Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +00002010-03-10T04:40:38.779-08:00reviewsARCbooksfictionWhen Liz runs away from her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday, her guilt-ridden mother, Laura, writes her a letter about her own adolescence, hoping to give Liz insight into her mother as a woman who has enough of her own precarious history to understand her daughter. In her painfully candid confession, Laura reveals the reasons her parents sent her away to a strict Catholic http://www.thenovelbookworm.com/2010/03/review-letter-to-my-daughter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly)3