Becoming Michelle Obama Random House, Nov 2018 429 pages, Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio book, Audio CD Memoirs/Bios, Women’s Lit, History, Ethnic/Cultural ✮✮✮✮✮ Purchased The cover is perfect with its large, captivating close-up of the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, who is the author and subject of this book. It shows her smiling, as I always… Continue reading Becoming
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Element 42
Element 42 Sabel Security Book 1 Seeley James Machined Media, Apr 2015 350 pages, kindle, paperback Thriller, action ✭✭✭✭✭ Purchased The cover is totally appropriate to the story and yet I really didn’t like it. It seemed sort of like a bunch of disjointed elements placed on there that weren’t related. Oh well, not all… Continue reading Element 42
The Phantom Tree
The Phantom Tree Nicola Cornick Graydon House, Aug 2018 384 pages, kindle, paperback, audiobook, audio cd Historical Novel, Time Travel ✭✭✭✭✭ Provided, NetGalley The cover is so appropriate for this story of partial history and partial time travel. I loved this historical novel, using what is known and adding a good ending is always fun,… Continue reading The Phantom Tree
Circleborn
Circleborn The Broken Circle, Book 1 Nicholas Stephenson Jul 2015, 121 pages YA fantasy, Magic Purchased ✭✭✭⭑ The cover is unassuming and yet perfect for this book. A young man who looks perfectly normal against a background of an abstractly shattered circle. That about sums up the whole story. Ryan Faraway looks perfectly normal but… Continue reading Circleborn
Drawing Lessons
Drawing Lessons Patricia Sands Lake Union Publishing, Oct 2017 354 pages, Kindle, paperback, audiobook, MP3 CD Women’s Lit, Contemporary Romance Provided, Author ✮✮✮✮✮ The cover is typical Patricia Sands with flowers and flourishes on a white cover. Giving just a hint at the goodness inside. A straightforward love story, complicated by everyone’s two cents worth… Continue reading Drawing Lessons
Ghost Light
Ghost Light Ivy Granger, Psychic Detective #2) E.J. Stevens Sacred Oaks Press, Jun 2013 206 pages, Kindle, paperback, audiobook Fantasy w/ghosts Provided, author ✭✭✭✭✭ The cover is not terribly exciting, but it is appropriate to the story with the graveyard full of stones and the wisps gathered around Ivy, the young female heroine of the… Continue reading Ghost Light
Sparkling Society
Sparkling Society Games - Simulation Company started in 2013 Also, do battle and card games Free with in-app purchases ✮✮✮✮ That would be 5 stars if it weren’t for those in-app purchases! I found these fun little games totally by accident. I wasn’t even looking for them when I found them. One of them popped… Continue reading Sparkling Society
Obake Neko
Obake Neko David Michael Gillespie Kindle, Paperback 349 pages, May 2018 Adventure, debut, historical novel Provided, NetGalley ✮✮✮✮✮ The cover was rather mysterious and intriguing. A submarine with this title about a ghost cat. What was this? In spite of being part of a Navy family and having a husband who was really into history,… Continue reading Obake Neko
Giada: A Guilty Love
Giada: A Guilty Love Anna Chillon translated by Sally Ibba 332 pages, Oct 2018 Kindle, paperback Adult fiction, Romance BDSM Provided, Author ✮✮✮✮ The cover is attractive and appropriate to the story. The hand appears to be of a man, however, it does not reveal the age of the man and that is misleading since… Continue reading Giada: A Guilty Love
The Last Dragon Princess
The Last Dragon Princess Cynthia Payne Sep 2018 367 pages, Kindle, paperback Debut novel, Fantasy YA Provided, author ✭✭✭✭✭ The cover is very attractive and colorful. Reds and purples are always good for a dragon species book. The artwork is lovely. The story is a good one, too, with a complex plot that has twists… Continue reading The Last Dragon Princess
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