The Daughter-in-Law Rules by Sally Shields

The full title of this 4 star book actually is The Daughter-in-Law Rules: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-in-Law! and there are some really smart ones! I don’t have any major issues with my fiancé’s mother, but if I ever do, I know just where to go for help.
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Little Miss Smarty-Pants by Suzanne Kopoulos

Little Miss Smarty-Pants is first the memoir I have laughed my way through most of. Suzanne Kopoulos really lets it all hang out. She didn’t hold much, if anything, back. As you might expect, she did change the names. I give her a lot of credit. Granted I didn’t have as diverse a life as [...]

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Jaclyn’s Ghost by Dorlana Vann

Jaclyn’s Ghost is a very well written love story about Jaclyn Jade and Logan Smith. At the beginning of the story Jaclyn realizes, with the help of Logan, that she is dead. More specifically, she’s a ghost. Logan died in the 1920s when the site of Sunset Apartments was a hotel. Dorlana Vann lends a [...]

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The Seventh Tower: The Fall Garth Nix

I actually gave The Fall two different star ratings. 3 Stars for anyone 13+ and 4 Stars for kids 9-12. I was a little bored by it; the book couldn’t hold my attention. I’m also way outside the target. I think any 3rd to 6th grader would like this book. I think the back of [...]

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“Eats, Shoots and Leaves” Lynne Truss

Yes, that’s right, 5 Stars for a book about proper punctuation. I fully expected to get through this book only for my 2008 Challenges. In my mind’s eye I saw myself reading a page or two and then falling sound asleep from boredom. I could not have been more wrong.
Not only does Lynne Truss make [...]

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“Little Altars Everywhere” Rebecca Wells

“Little Altars Everywhere” is the first book in a series. The second is “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” which I also have and will read and review at a later date.
The book is broken down into two parts each with there own chapters. The first part takes place in 1960’s Louisiana. The second part [...]

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“The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.” Sandra Gulland

“The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.” by Sandra Gulland is an historical fiction novel with (for me) a bit of a twist. It is written in diary form. At first I wasn’t sure about reading a ‘journal’. I thought it would feel disjointed, I was wrong. The journal hits all of the [...]

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