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Grammar Snufus by Karla Stover

Okay, here's the deal. When did people become "that" instead of "who?" I hear this on the radio on the TV ( and shouldn't news reporters know better )? and unless my memory is wrong, have even read it in places. Why? How hard is it to remember that people require a "who"? And here's another--myself instead of me. My boss did this all this time and it drove me crazy. Are we so afraid to  be in the spotlight that we have to say, "So-and-so and myself did such-and-so?"

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Thoughts

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Available Now Dutton Books To Buy Links:   Amazon / Kindle / Audio BookCD / Audible Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. ****This review contains some spoilerish comments***** It's hard to review a book that is already being made into a movie. That has over 7,000 reviews on Amazon alone. So I'll tell it to you differently. I have avoided reading this book for almost a year. I was one of the first to get it of course. It was John Green. Nerdfighter. DFTBA. One half of the Vlogbrothers.  Hank Green's bro. And it was signed?? (How did Amazon do that??) So of course mine was preordered. I have eve...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb Audiobook Review

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb Available Now Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Audiobook Narrator: Archie Panjabi To Buy Links: Amazon / Kindle / Audible / Audio CD / Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.  Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she ha...

Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci Why I am DNF-ing it

Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci Release Date February 25, 2014 Publisher Roaring Brook Press Source: NetGalley e-ARC for review e-Book 240 pages From Goodreads- On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the  Prairie Rose , a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's leader, Brother Blue, beats Tula within an inch of her life. An alien, Heckleck, saves her and teaches her the ways of life on the space station. When three humans crash land onto the station,   Tula's desire for escape becomes irresistible, and her desire for companionship becomes unavoidable. But just as Tula begins to concoct a plan to get off the space station and kill Brother Blue, everything goes awry, and suddenly romance is the farthest thing from her mind.  I don't usually tell you I have DNF'd a book, but I'm going to start telling you. ...

The Art of Forgiving by Anna Bloom (A Uni File Shortie for Christmas)

The Art of Forgiving -A Uni Files Short by Anna Bloom Available Now Amazon / Amazon UK Source: Received from author for review :) Goodreads :   Benjamin Chambers found the girl, won the girl, and then lost the girl all in two months. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t that girl. The one that had already got away once. Left to his own devices, wallowing in self-pity, drinking whiskey and killing ballads on his guitar Ben is looking forward to the worst Christmas in history. That is until an unexpected offer of help arrives. Given the best Christmas gift he could ever wish for, the chance to spend one more day with the girl that got away. Ben knows he just has one day to convince Lilah that they are meant to be together, before he has to make some big decisions about his own future. Just one day to set right the mistakes that he has made, but will it be enough? Ben may end up finding out that The Art of Forgiving isn't something you can teach, it is something that you have to earn. R...

Blog Tour- Shadows of Asphodel by Karen Kincy Review and Giveaway

Oh Wow am I happy to be a part of this blog tour! The Shadows of Asphodel is a New Adult book about a mercenary, Ardis and a necromancer, Wendel. I haven't read a necromancer book yet. Can you believe it? But this one was a great one to get started with. Oh, and it also has a bit of Steampunk in it! And romance, you know who I'm talking to. So I hope you follow the tour and put this one on your Goodreads shelf! Shadows of Asphodel (#1) by Karen Kincy Available Now New Adult Dieselpunk Paperback 350 pages Received e-ARC through CCB Book Promotions for Blog Tour To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Barnes and Noble / Indiebound / Book Depository From Goodreads -  When Ardis discovers a man bleeding to death on the battlefield, she knows she has to walk away. 1913. In her work as a mercenary for Austria-Hungary, Ardis has killed many men without hesitation. One more man shouldn’t matter, even if he manages to be a charming bastard while he stands dying in the snow.  But when he rai...

PAWN!!! by Aimee Carter - Review

Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion #1) by Aimee Carter Available Now Harlequin Teen Hardback 352 pages/ Kindle 343 pages Source: E-ARC received from Publisher through NetGalley To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Audible / Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo     Goodreads-    YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING.   For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.  If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked—surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter.  There's only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed …a...

Blog Tour- The Masters Book by Philip Coleman Review and Giveaway

Today, stopping by Buried in Books is the tour for The Master's Book by Philip Coleman for review. It is a Middle Grade book at a little over 200 pages. It combines mystery and detective work and reminds me somewhat of The Egypt Game, if any of you are familiar with that. Thanks to Candace at CBB Book Promotions for putting this one on my radar! You can follow the rest of the tour HERE. The Master's Book by Philip Coleman Available Now MuseIt Up Publishing March 2013 E-book 232 pages To Buy Links- Kindle / Nook / Kobo / Goodreads Synopsis-  In 1482 Mary, the last Duchess of Burgundy, lies on her deathbed in a castle in Flanders. She is only 24. In her final moments she makes a wish that, 500 years later, will threaten the lives of a boy and a girl living in Brussels. The Master’s Book is the story of Sean, an Irish teenager, just arrived in Brussels to a house that is also a crime scene. Together with Stephanie, his classmate, he finds an illuminated manuscript, only for it to ...

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