by amiemccracken | Aug 30, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Chasing Paris by Jen Carter is one of those books that I will be highly recommending this year. It’s about a girl. Her biological grandmother dies, but all of her life she knew another woman as her grandmother. More and more secrets come out as she searches for...
by amiemccracken | Aug 23, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Audrey’s Guide to Witchcraft by Jody Gehrman is the story of a new witch, Audrey. Her mother disappears, a mysterious cousin shows up to babysit, and she has foreboding feelings about it all.The voice in this book was flashy and fun. There was just enough high...
by amiemccracken | Aug 9, 2012 | book review, reading
Diaries of a Teenage Bride by Jillian Amodio is exactly what it sounds like, in a very wholesome and honest manner. Jillian was married at the age of eighteen, for love. And this book gives her personal account of marrying that young, the ups and downs of marriage,...
by amiemccracken | Aug 7, 2012 | book review, reading
Broken City by D.D. Chant is a post-apocalyptic novel. Financial ruin forces the world into tribes fighting amongst themselves for survival. Deeta, the main character, has quite the adventure that opens her eyes not only to the world she has been kept hidden from, but...
by amiemccracken | Jul 24, 2012 | book review, reading
Little Sacrifices by Jamie Scott is an historical novel about the American South just after World War II. But it’s also about a young woman dealing with life and its curve balls.I was instantly drawn in to the story. So much so that I’d forgotten I was...
by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2012 | book review, books, reading
I’m very stingy with five-star ratings. That privilege is reserved for those books that really strike a chord with me, the ones where I’m flying through them but at every other sentence or so I have to stop and reread to savor the words. Last year I read...
