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Title: Dracula In Love Author: Karen Essex Genre/Pages: Fiction/ 384 Publisher: Doubleday; August 10, 2010 Rating: 2.5 Bookmarks Source: Publisher Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: Part re-imagining and part re-telling, Karen Essex puts a new spin on Bram Stoker’s classic. Before I started reading Dracula In Love, I took a short refresher course in Dracula by re-reading sections [...]
Title: The Book of Peach Author: Penelope J. Stokes Genre/Pages: Fiction/ 304 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group; August 3, 2010 Rating: 1.5 Bookmarks Source: Publisher Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: Though Stokes’s writing is serviceable and her characters dynamic and well-developed, this southern fiction novel about coming home again didn’t reach out and grab me. Priscilla Bell Posner Rondell, Peach to her friends, [...]
Title: A Slender Thread Author: Katharine Davis Genre/Pages: Fiction/ 352 Publisher: NAL Trade; August 3, 2010 Rating: 3 Bookmarks Source: Publisher Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: A well-written novel that examines the impact that an illness has on a family. With a single phone call or the results of a battery of medical testing, life can change [...]
Title: You Better Not Cry Author: Augusten Burroughs Genre/Pages: Memoir/224 Publication: St. Martin’s Press; October 27, 2009 Rating: 1.5 Bookmarks Source: Library A collection of bleak, holiday-themed essays, most that left me feeling like jabbing an icicle into my eye and skipping every Christmas until eternity. With a mere 183 days until Christmas, what better [...]
Title: My Name is Memory Author: Ann Brashares Genre/Pages: Fiction/336 Publication: Riverhead Books; June 1, 2010 Rating: 3.5 Bookmarks Source: Review copy courtesy of publisher Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: A love story that spans centuries, My Name Is Memory tells the tale of Daniel and Sophia, time-crossed lovers who face insurmountable obstacles in each lifetime that keep [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? May 31, 2012
From the Outside Looking Indian
by Rupinder Gill
Courtesy of Berkley/NAL Penguin Group
June 12, 2012
Between You and Me
by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
July 3, 2012
The Next Best Thing
by Jennifer Weiner
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
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