My Reviews

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Reviews are in alphabetical order and articles are moved to the end of the title.

In the parentheses: The numerical rating out of 5 possible, and where I received the book (from a supplier, purchased, or borrowed).  For my list of suppliers, go to my "Sources" page.

Updated 7/16/11

Book Reviews
101 Glam Girl Ways to an Ultra Chic Lifestyle (4, Bostic Communications)
101 Things I Learned in Culinary School (5, Hachette)
101 Things I Learned in Fashion School (5, Hachette)
60 Quick Knits in Cascade 220 (5, Sixth &Spring)
60 Quick Baby Knits in Cascade 220 (4 Sixth &Spring)

Abandon (4, Vine)
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (4, Hachette Audio)
Ada: Legend of a Healer (4.5, Author)
Adventures in Bookbinding (5, Quarry Publishing)
Adventures of the Thundering Whales (DNF, Bostic Communications)
Adventures of Princess the Pony, the (5, Author)
Accidental Genius (4, Bostic Communications)
Across the Endless River (4, FSB)
Android Karenina (5, Quirk Books)
Angels (5,  Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group)
Anything but Typical (4.5, NBCCPL)
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy (5, FSB Associates)
All I Ever Wanted (FSB Associates)
All the Good Men (3.75,  GF)
Along came a Spider (5, Purchased)
Along for the Ride (5, Goodwin Memorial Library)
Amazing Crayon Drawing (4.5, FSB)

Bailey's Day (1, Bostic Communications)
Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets (5, purchased)
Basic book of digital photography, the (4.5, FSB )
Beauvallet (5, Sourcebooks)
Better Part of Darkness, the (5, Hachette)
Big Book of Socks, the (4.5, The Taunton Press)
Birthmarked (5, Henry Holt In Group)
Bleeding Violet (4, Pulse It)
Blind Sight (5, Kathy Carlton Willis Communications)
Blood Magic (3, DNF, Vine)
Blood Red Road (5, NBCCPL)
Blue and Gray Christmas, a (2, Pocket Books)
Brave New Knits (5, Rodale Books)
Breakout Novelist, the (4.5, FSB)
Bridge, the (DNF, Bostic Communications)
Brothers of Gwynedd, the (DNF, Sourcebooks)
Buckley’s Story (4.5, Pump Up Your Book)
Bug's Adventure Series (1, Bostic Communications)

Can God be Trusted? (4, Hachette)
Catch in Time, a (3, Night Owl Reviews)
Catch me if you Can (5, GML)
Certain Wolfish Charm, a (3.75, Sourcebooks)
Channel, the (4, Bostic Communications)
Chasing Brooklyn (4, International Book Tours)
Cheating Death (5, Hachette Audio) 

Christian Zombie Killer's Handbook, the (DNF, Booksneeze)  
Christmas Carol, a (5, FSB)
Christmas Wedding, the (3, DNF, LittleBrown)
Color by Kristin (5, Sixth &Springs)
Couples Who Pray (4, Booksneeze)
Courtesan’s Scandal, a (3, DNF, Pocket Books)
Cowl Girls (5, Sixth&Spring)
Crescendo (5, ARC Swap)
Crime and Punishment (5, Purchased)
Curse of Captain LaFoote, the (2, Kathy Carlton Willis Communications)

Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) (5, FSB)
Darcy’s Voyage (4, Sourcebooks)
Dark Divine, the (3, NBCCPL) 

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (5, Publisher)  
Dead Perfect (3.5, NBCCPL)
Dearest Cousin Jane (DNF, Night Owl Reviews)
Diabetic Pastry Chef, the (4, Bostic Communications)
Diary of Pelly D, the (5, NBCCPL)
Distant Melody, a (5, Litfuse Publicity)
Dead Perfect (3.5, NBCCPL)
Donner the Western Dragon (5, Bostic Communications)
Don't Check your Brains at the Door (3, LitFuse)
Dragonfly (4, Bostic Communications)
Dust (DNF, Night Owl Reviews)

Earl to Enchant, an (1, DNF, Sourcebooks)"
Emerald Atlas, the (4, DNF, Night Owl Reviews)
Elemental Journal, the (4, Thomas Nelson)
Elf of Luxembourg (3, Pump Up Your Book)
Espressologist, the (1, Henry Holt In Group)
Eternal Hourglass, the [Magickeepers series] (4, SB) 

Eve (4, Vine)     

Every Step You Take (3, DNF, Vine)

Fashion File (4, Hachette)
Finishing School: A Master Class for Knitters (4.5, Sixth&Spring)
Fire Lord’s Lover, the (4, Sourcebooks)
First Timer's Cookbook, the (5, Media Guests)
From Darkness to Light (3.5, Bostic Communications)

Gateway to Dreamworld (3.5, Author)
Ghosts, the Eggheads, and Babe Ruth's piano, the (4.5, Pump Up Your Book)
Gift of an ordinary day, the (2, Hachette Audio)
Gifted: Lovely Little Things to Knit and Crochet (4.5, Interweave Press)
Gifts from the Heart (5, Bostic Communications)
Girl On Top (3, Hachette)
Glorious (3.5, DNF, Author)
Grey GREY Cloud, the (4, Bostic Communications)
Guilt Gene, the  (4.5 Bostic Communications)
Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig (5, Author)

Happy Birthday to Me (4, Author)
Hattitude (4, Sixth &Springs)
Healing Code, the (4, Hachette)
Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a day (4.5, FSB Associates)
Help for Writers (5, Hachette)
Hearing from God Each Morning (4.5, Hachette)
Heights, the (4, DNF, Henry Holt In Group)
Hex Hall (4, New Bern Craven County Public Library, ARC for Review)
Hiking Through (Pump Up Your Book)
His Last Duchess (DNF, Sourcebooks)
Host, the (3.5, Hachette)
Hourglass (5, Vine)
Hour of Dust and Ashes, the (5, Hachette)
How Sweet It Is (3.5, Hachette)
How to be Famous  (1, Hachette)
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf (4, Simon and Schuster)
How to Knit a Wild Bikini (3.5, Paperbackswap)
How to Roast a Lamb (4.5, Hachette)
How To Survive Your Freshman Year (3.75, The Candence Group)

I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets (5, won)
I Hate To Cook Book, the (4, Hachette)
I Heart You, You Haunt Me (3, Pulse It)
I Knew You'd Be Lovely (3, Vine)
Imortalis: Carpe Noctem (4, Pump Up Your Book)
In Plain Sight (4.5, Author)
Island, the (DNF, Hachette Audio)
Is there a monster over there? (5, Bostic Communications)
It Happened One Night (3.5 Hachette Pocketbooks)
It's Not Summer Without You (4, purchased)

Jack’s Dreams Come to Life (4.5 Bostic Communications)
Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me (4, Hachette Pocketbooks)
Jekel Loves Hyde (4, New Bern Craven County Public Library, ARC for Review)
Jolly Good Fellow, a (3.75, Pump Up Your Book)
Jungle Warfare (3, Booksneeze)

Knit Local (4, Sixth&Spring)
Knit Noro (3, Sixth&Spring) 

Knit Noro Accessories (5, Sixth&Spring)
Knit One, Bead Too (5, Storey Publishing)
Knit Socks! (3, Storey Publishing)
Knitting At Home (5, Sixth&Spring)
Knitting Beyond the Edge (5, SoHo Publicist)
Knitting Mochimochi (4, Crown Publishing Group [Randomhouse])
Knitting with Gigi (4, Martingale &Company)
Knitting Workshops (5, Sixth&Spring)


Language of Secrets, the (5, Doubleday)
Last Song, the (5, Hachette Audio)
Last to Die (4, Hachette)
Latin Grill (5, FSB)
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun (3.5, Hachette)
Life of Glass, the (4, Bloody Bad Borrow-my-book tour)
Life’s Captivity (4,  Bostic Communications)
Light, the dark, and Ember Between, the (5, Pump Up Your Book)
Lips Touch: Three Times (5, Night Owl Reviews)
Little Green Dresses (3.75, Taunton Press)
Little Red Book of Wisdom, the (5, Booksneeze)
Live For Your Listening Pleasure (4, Hachette Audio)
Lockdown (escape from furnace 1) (4.5 Henry Holt In Group)
Lone Star Legend (2.5, DNF Hachette)
Lonely Digger, the (4, Bostic Communications)
Lost Voices (4, Vine)
Love Revolution, the (4, Hachette)
Love You to Death (2.5, Hachette)
Lovely Bones, the (1, Hachette Audio, paperback purchased)
Lucifer Rising (DNF, Bostic Communications)

Magickeepers series (4, Sourcebooks)
Magic Under Glass (5, Won)
Magic Warble, the (4.5, Pump Up Your Book)
Make That a Table for Seven (4.5, Bostic Communications)
Making of a Duchess, the (3, Sourcebooks)
Mayo Clinic Diet, the (5, FSB)
Meowmorphosis, the (2, Amazon Vine)
Modern Calligraphy and Hand Lettering (5, Quarry)
Moonstone (3, Bell Bridge Books)
Mostly Mittens (4.5, Martingale &Company)
Mudhogs, the (5, Bostic Communications)
Musical Chairs (4, Author)
Murder of King Tut, the (4.5, Hachette Audio)
My Heart and Soul (4, Pump Up Your Book)
My One and Only (1, DNF, Vine)
My Unfair Lady (4, Sourcebooks)

New England Knits (5, Interweave Press)
Nine Dragons (4, Hachette Audio)
No Hope for Gomez (4, Pump Up Your Book)
Northern Knits (4, Interweave Press)

Of Lights in the Night (4, Bostic Communications)
Once Dead, Twice Shy (4, Night Owl Reviews)
One Scream Away (4, Hachette)
Over the Holidays (2, Pocket Books)

Party for Two (4, Bostic Communications)
Perfect Chemistry (3, Purchased)
Peanut Collection, the [Guest Review] (Hachette)
Picture the Dead (4, Sourcebooks)
Playing Hurt (4, LitFuse)
Poetry Speaks Who I Am (5, Sourcebooks)
Pointe Shoes: Tips and Tricks (5, Purchased)
Possibility of Everything, the (5, Pump Up Your Book)
Postmistress, the (DNF, Bloody Bad Borrow My ARC Tour)
Pride and Prejudice (5, Librivox)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (5, FSB)
Primary Victim (4.5, Author)
Pyramid of Souls [Magickeepers series] (4, sourcebooks)

Quilter’s Diary, a (5, Martingale &Company)
Quilted Devotions (5, Martingale &Company)
Quip Factory (3.5, Bostic Communications)

Recipes for a Beautiful Life (3.5, Bostic Communications)
Radical: Taking Back your Faith from the American Dream (5, purchased)
Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings (4, Sourcebooks)
Red RED car, the (4, Bostic Communications)
Ruby Red (4, NBCCPL)
Running on the Cracks (3, Henry Holt In Group)

Sanctuary (3.8, Bostic Communications) 

Sasha Kagan collection (3, Taunton)  
School of Possibilities, the (DNF, Sourcebooks)
Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, the (4, Mark Goldman [publicist] )
Secret of Joy, the (5, Hachette Pocketbooks)
Searching for Tina Turner (DNF, Hachette )
Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto (4, Night Owl Reviews)
Seven  (3, Hachette)
Shadow Blade (3, DNF, Hachette) 

Shatter Me (5, Vine)  
Simple Times (4, Hachette)
Sing Me To Sleep (3, International Book Tours)
Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men, the (4, Author)
Slave (5, Amazon Vine)
Sock Club (Martingale &Company)
Sons of Thunder (DNF, Litfuse Publicity)
Soul Catcher (4, Won)
Spells (4.5, Bloody Bad borrow my book tour)
Spring for Susannah (3, LitFuse)
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (4, Hachette Audio)
Start Here (5, WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group)
Staring Into the Sun (3, Bostic Communications)
Steampunk! (4, Vine)
Stepmonster (3, FSB)
Stitch Style: Mittens (4, Martingale &Company) 

Stitchonary Volume 6 (4, Sixth&Spring)  
Stop It! (4, Bostic Communications)
Strange Neighbors (DNF, Sourcebooks)
Stressed in Scottsdale (DNF, Bostic Communications)
Strictly Sundays (3, Bostic Communications)
Sugarless Plum, the (5, FSB)
Sundays at Tiffany’s (5, Purchased)
Summer Fit (Media Guests)
Summer I Turned Pretty, the (4.5 Pulse It)
SuperStress Solution, the (4.5, FSB) 
Sweater Chop Shop, the (3, Storey Publishing)

Tall, Dark, and Wolfish (3.75, Sourcebooks)
Terror by Night (5, Kathy Carlton Willis Communications)
They Almost Always Come Home (Kathy Carlton Willis Communications)
This Little Prayer of Mine (5, Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group)
Thumbing Through Thoreau (5, Pump Up Your Book)
Tiger's Curse (5, Purchased)
To Conquer Mr. Darcy (2, DNF, Sourcebooks)
Touch of the Master's Hand, the (5, Media Guests)
Totally Toned Arms (5, Hachette)
Tracy Anderson's 30-Day Method (4.5, Hachette)
Triangle of Deception (4, Bostic Communications)
Triangles (5, Vine)
Turning, the (4, SB)
Tyger Tyger (5, Author)

Uncertain Magic (5, SB)

Vampyre Blood: Eight Pints of Trouble (4, Pump Up Your Book)
Voices Under Berlin (2, Pump Up Your Book)

Warm Knits, Cool Gifts (4.5, Crown Publishing Group [Randomhouse])
Web of Secrets (DNF, Author Marketing Experts)
We Hear the Dead (5, Sourcebooks)
Wildwing (5, Night Owl Reviews)
Wings (3.5, New Bern Craven County Public Library, ARC for review)
What the Dog Saw (Hachette Audio)
Wolf Next Door, the (4, Sourcebooks)

Yarn Bombing (4, Arsenal Pulp Press)
Yellow Hummer, the (3.75, Bostic Communications)
Young Bess (DNF, Sourcebooks) 

     

Music Reviews
At Your Request (purchased)
The Silver Key (Bostic Communications)
Bloodlines (Album) by Travis Oberg (Oberg)
Somebody’s Baby by Jon Foreman (AM Music Blog, donated by Foreman)
Josu Gallastegui (purchased)
Mat Kearney (One2One)

Author/Series Reviews
Dorothy Howell series
1-800-WHERE-R-U by Meg Cabot
Brian D. McClure series

Product Reviews
Eggspress (Bostic Communications)
The Marshal Plan (R) (FSB)
Masters Lock Backpack Lock (Masters Lock)
Computer Lock  (purchased)
Lands End Backpack (purchased)
CSN Bookshelves (CSN Stores)
Chunky Bling ring (Chunky Bling)
Canvas Prints by Build A Sign (Build A Sign)
Wilson Tennis Capri pants (Wilson) 

MyMemories Suite (My Memories)  


DNF—Did Not Finish. I did not/ could not finish this book
Author—The author of the book sent me the book for review
Purchased—I bought the book, either full priced at a book store, a thrift store, or at a discounted price somewhere else.
Won—I won this book from a contest/giveaway of some sort and did not buy it.