DECEMBER WRAP-UP
Hey everyone!! Check out the books I read in December. I got the chance to read 9 books in December. 4 of them were ARCs from Netgalley and 1 from Hidden Gems Books. Thank you so much Netgalley and Hidden Gems Books for providing me with ARCs. I had a great time reading these books this month. A couple of cute, easy, heart-warming romances and few children’s books made this month reading so much easier for me as I have been having a difficult managing everything. I started a couple of home tutoring this month and we are going on vacation this 9th and all of this has cut down…
BOOK REVIEW : LOVE FROM A TO Z BY S.K.ALI
TITLE : Love From A to Z AUTHOR : S.K.Ali GENRE : Romance, Contemporary, YA FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB : A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together. An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are. But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in…
BOOK REVIEW : HELP WANTED, MUST LOVE BOOKS BY JANET SUMNER JOHNSON
TITLE : Help Wanted, Must Love Books AUTHOR : Janet Sumner Johnson GENRE : Children’s Fiction, Graphic Novel, Picture Books ART BY : Courtney Dawson AGE GROUP : 4-7 yrs FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB : When Shailey’s dad gets a new job, she loses her bedtime reading partner. She immediately starts interviews to fill the position and is thrilled when her favorite fairy tale characters line up to apply. But Sleeping Beauty can’t stay awake, the Gingerbread Man steals her book, and Snow White brings her whole team. Shailey is running out of options. Is bedtime ruined forever? FBRC REVIEW : DISCLAIMER : I received an ARC( advance…
BOOK REVIEW : JUST BECAUSE WE CAN BY NICOLE BROOKS
TITLE : Just Because We Can AUTHOR : Nicole Brooks GENRE : Adult, Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB : If you love the earth and a compelling read, this book is for you. Dale became an environmental scientist to help save the earth, but at 36, she is jaded with the reality of her job. Meanwhile, just as she struggles to connect with her glamourous mother and navigate her siblings’ complex problems, she and her husband embark on another round of IVF. But just as the suffocating pressures of everyday life threaten to overwhelm Dale, she leaves on a work trip to Thailand. Working on…
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR – BOOK TEASER : DEREK HYDE KNOWS SPOOKY WHEN HE SEES IT BY E.MICHAEL LUNSFORD
Derek Hyde Series, Book 1 Middle-Grade Paranormal Date Published: 12-21-2019 Publisher: INtense Publications LLC Twelve-year-old Derek Hyde isn’t thrilled that the spookiest old mansion in town is about to become the Hyde Funeral Home & Used Coffin Outlet. Especially since he has to live there with his mortician parents, Jack and Formalda. Of course, being driven in the family hearse to his first day at middle school doesn’t exactly add whipped cream to his broccoli. As if things couldn’t get more horrific, an evil classmate named Nussbaum attacks him in the cafeteria with a plate of beef stroganoff. Seems this kid used to love living in the old mansion himself,…
BOOK REVIEW : SEVEN LETTERS BY J.P.MONNINGER
A Blasket Islander lived on top of the sea, beside the sea, inside the sea. I felt its overwhelming presence before I had walked a quarter mile. – SEVEN LETTERS (J.P.MONNINGER) TITLE : Seven Letters AUTHOR : J.P.Monninger GENRE : Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Romance FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB: J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable”, tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together. Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie…
