by amiemccracken | Oct 16, 2014 | book review, books, reading
Last year Susan Kaye Quinn released her Debt Collector serial. Nine episodes of emotional roller coasters in a brand new world where your life is on the open market, not your money. And this month she started the second series. I’m chomping at the bit for more...
by amiemccracken | Jul 22, 2014 | book review, books, reading
Jessica Bell has created a true work of art with her new short story in verse, SHE. It gives us a glimpse into the mind, into a traumatic moment. I had to read it twice, and I think I might pick it up again one more time. I loved how if I read the stanzas in...
by amiemccracken | Jul 17, 2014 | book review, books, reading, Uncategorized
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is a story of teenage life, plain and simple. It’s also a love story, but mostly it’s just normal, everyday, mundane and terrible, teenage life. It was an incredible read. What a beautiful rendition of a not so shiny life...
by amiemccracken | Jun 17, 2014 | book review, books
Just a few months ago this book, An Unchoreographed Life by Jane Davis, came up on my radar. Someone had posted about it and as soon as I read the summary, I couldn’t wait for it to come out. Then I had the amazing pleasure to actually meet the author in person...
by amiemccracken | Mar 6, 2014 | book review, books, Germany, travel
The first book I read when I moved to Germany was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of the last movies I’ve seen while living in Germany was The Book Thief. I wrote a book review when I read the book, simply because I was so emotionally effected by reading a...