Review: LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater

TITLE: Linger
AUTHOR: Maggie Stiefvater
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.maggiestiefvater.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Paranormal
PARANORMAL ELEMENT: Werewolves
PUBLISHED: Scholastic (July 13, 2010)
MY RATING: 4

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SYNOPSIS:

(via Goodreads)

Grace and Sam must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

Review: SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater

TITLE: Shiver
AUTHOR: Maggie Stiefvater
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.maggiestiefvater.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Paranormal Romance
PARANORMAL ELEMENT: Werewolves
PUBLISHED: Scholastic (August 1, 2009)
MY RATING: 4

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SYNOPSIS:


For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It’s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

Review: THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett

TITLE: The Help
AUTHOR: Kathryn Stockett  
GENRE: Adult Fiction, Historical
PUBLISHED: Penguin ( 2009)
MY RATING: 4
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 *Review published in Connect Statesboro, August 16, 2011*


SYNOPSIS:

“The Help” opened in theaters last week and drew a fine line between love and hate. The story is about black maids in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi. Aibileen was raising her seventeenth white child while hers was killed by a white man’s negligence. She had always taken orders quietly but a bitterness had grown inside her that she can no longer suppress. Her sassy friend, Minny, had certainly never held her tongue. Skeeter had just returned from college with high hopes to become a journalist.

Together, these seemingly different women join together to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town. They compile a tell-all book about what it’s really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South.

Review: THX THX THX by Leah Dieterich


TITLE: THX THX THX: Thank goodness for everything
AUTHOR: Leah Dieterich
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.leahdieterich.com
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Inspirational
PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing (May 31, 2011)
MY RATING: 4
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*Review Published in Connect Statesboro, July 26, 2011*


SYNOPSIS:


Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank-you notes. So she does. To everything. “thx thx thx” began as her daily exercise in gratitude. She started out by just writing thank you notes for her own personal pleasure and kept them in a box. She showed them to a friend one day and her friend suggested she share these simple, sincere notes with the world. After her blog was formed she then published it into a lovely gift-book with pictures of her notes.