Interview: Megan McCafferty and the Wonders of Pineville (in photos!)

Wonder No. 4

The Champagne of Propane.  The dinosaur.  Der Wunder Wiener.  The white Volkswagen Beetle perched atop an auto body shop. Fans of Megan McCafferty’s Jessica Darling series will recognize these landmarks as stops on Marcus Flutie’s Five Wonders of Pineville tour. This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Sloppy Firsts, and we’re going [...]

Books and Beyond: What else or where else do you review?

One of my favorite aspects of book blogging is writing book reviews.  Maybe it speaks to my background as an educator–constantly evaluating and analyzing.  Whatever it is, I love to write reviews and with the advent of the internet have gone beyond reviewing solely books.  In addition to posting my  reviews here, I also submit [...]

And the winnerS are…

Thanks to everyone who entered to win the Jessica Darling series.  As a last minute bonus, I was also able to give away two copies of the first book in the series–Sloppy Firsts–as 2nd and 3rd prizes!  Random.com selected the following winners: Congratulations BOOKISH PATTY for winning the entire series!  You’ll really enjoy these books. Congratulations are [...]

Shameless Promotion: The Jessica Darling Series

firsts

Long before Stephenie Meyer dreamed up her vampire heart-throb, Edward Cullen, there was Megan McCafferty’s tempting-yet-forbidden Marcus Flutie.  I first met Marcus in 2001, while browsing in Books-A-Million in Florida.  He was tucked away in the pages of a novel with a splashy cover that featured a pair of legs and an origami-style folded note—the [...]