Waiting on Wednesday: Radiant Days
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. Summary from Amazon: She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art...
View ArticleIf You Like Characters From Opposite Sides of the Tracks
If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations...
View ArticleTune in Tuesday (13)
This is another song from Sweet Thing. I’ve been listening to their album on repeat pretty much since I got it, so their songs are all that come to mind when I think of what I want to share on Tune in...
View ArticleWaiting on Wednesday: I Hunt Killers
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. Summary from Amazon: What if the world’s worst serial killer…was...
View ArticleUnofficial Readathon Day
I have found myself with a vacation day from work, a cancellation of travel plans, and a lot of rain. It’s basically the perfect day to curl up and read a lot of books. I’m having an unofficial...
View ArticleReview: Want to Go Private?
Abby is beginning high school. It’s an exciting time, but also a terrifying one that signals a shift in her academic and social life. Abby struggles with the transition, and she’s afraid to talk to her...
View ArticleReview: Bunheads
Hannah’s entire life is dance. When she’s not dancing for the Manhattan Ballet Company, she is taking exercise classes to keep herself in shape or attending swank parties to ensure that patrons of the...
View ArticleWays to Subscribe to Reclusive Bibliophile
Google has announced that they will be getting rid of Google Friend Connect for non-Blogger blogs (and possibly all blogs in the future). This means that as a WordPress blog, Reclusive Bibliophile will...
View ArticleIf You Like Stories About Stepfamilies
If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations...
View ArticleReview: Where Things Come Back
The small, sleepy southern town of Lily, Arkansas goes into a frenzy when a birdwatcher thinks he spots a Lazarus Woodpecker, a species thought to be extinct. (“Lily is the kind of place you’d like to...
View ArticleDear Twentysomething: Rob Gutro
Dear Rob, I’m writing to you 31 years in the future. I had this cool opportunity to get a letter to you through the wonders of technology here in 2011, and send it back to you in 1970, when you were...
View ArticleSpotlight on New Adult Literature: Psych Major Syndrome
Summary from Goodreads: Using the skills you’ve learned so far in Introduction to Psychology, please write a brief self-assessment describing how things are going in your freshman year. Presenting...
View ArticleWaiting on Wednesday: Try Not to Breathe
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. Summary from Amazon: A dark and provocative novel from the...
View ArticleDear Twentysomething: Shelby Daniel
Letter to my 20′s me, Concerning General Life: Thanks for taking risks. I know it feels like running away from the issues you were having, but you can feel safe knowing that those speeding tickets...
View ArticleSpotlight on New Adult Literature: Bass Ackwards and Belly Up and Footfree...
Summary of Bass Ackwards and Belly Up from Goodreads: For readers of the New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl and A-List series, here is a smart and highly commercial first novel about four best...
View ArticleDear Twentysomething: Karen from Attack the Stacks
Dear twenty-something Karen, Let me start out by saying that the next decade and a half or so is going to be pretty good overall. We’ve made some mistakes, that’s for sure, but we always seem to...
View ArticleSpotlight on New Adult Literature: An Off Year
Summary from Goodreads: Cecily has always done everything as she was supposed to: taken the right classes, gotten the right grades, applied to the right colleges. But after a lifetime of following the...
View ArticleDear Twentysomething: Chuck Goodman
Dear Me, Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is some people’s definition of insanity! While there are lots of ways to interpret this quote, one way relates to what...
View ArticleSpotlight on New Adult Literature: Very LeFreak
Summary from Goodreads: Very LeFreak has a problem: she’s a crazed technology addict. Very can’t get enough of her iPhone, laptop, IMs, text messages, whatever. If there’s any chance the incoming...
View ArticleSpotlight on New Adult Literature: Sophomore Switch
Summary from Goodreads: Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as “The Hot-Tub Incident,” and you’ve got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For...
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