Tag Archives: coming-of-age

Review: The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 006228553X Source: Publisher Bartholomew Neil has cared for his mother for the entire thirty-eight years of his life. When she passes away from cancer, he’s left with an emptiness in his … Continue reading →

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Review: Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 320 pgs. Publisher: Gallery Books (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 1476707723 Source: Publisher My daddy says that when you do somethin’ to distract you from your worstest fears, it’s like whistlin’ past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to … Continue reading →

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Frightful Friday: Joyland by Stephen King

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Jenn

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Joyland by Stephen King: Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Hard Case Crime; First Edition edition … Continue reading →

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Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Random House (June 26, 2012) ISBN-10: 0812992970 Source: Publisher The day appeared to be normal to Julia in the California suburb where she lived with her parents. At eleven years old, Julia is dealing with the … Continue reading →

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Review: Night Swim by Jessica Keener

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Jenn

Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Fiction Studio Books (January 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 1936558262 Source: Publisher Sarah Kunitz, sixteen years old, lives in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s. To those outside her home she has the perfect life. Her parents … Continue reading →

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Review: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Jenn

  Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher:Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (January 20, 2011) ISBN-10: 0399157220 Source: Publisher   When their mother is stricken ill with breast cancer, three sisters reunite in the college town of Barnwell, OH where they were raised.  Not that … Continue reading →

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Review: A Gift from Brittany by Marjorie Price

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jenn

    Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Gotham; Reprint edition (March 3, 2009) ISBN-10: 1592404340 Source: Author Marjorie (Midge) Price always dreamed of painting in Paris.  In 1960 she did something that no twenty-eight year old woman should do: she bought … Continue reading →

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