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Review: Silver, Talia Vance

Title: Silver (Goodreads) Author:  Talia Vance (@TaliaVance) Rating: Brianna has always felt invisible. People stare right past her, including the one boy she can’t resist, Blake Williams. But everything changes at a house party where Brianna’s charm bracelet slips off and time stands still. In that one frozen, silver moment, Blake not only sees her, he recognizes […]

Roundup: October

It’s the end of another month already – doesn’t the time just fly by towards the end of the year? So what happened around here during October? This month I think I had my first real book blogging burn-out. I’ve been so, so busy over the last few months and getting around to writing reviews […]

Tour: Review: Stitch, Samantha Durante

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on the huge Stitch Blog Tour! You can find links to more reviews and other goodies by clicking the banner above (after you’ve read my review, of course). Title: Stitch (Goodreads) Author:  Samantha Durante  Rating: Still struggling to find her footing after the sudden death of her parents, the last […]

Review: The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King

Title: The Drawing of the Three (Goodreads) Author:  Stephen King Rating: ~ Blurb from Goodreads ~ After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World’s Western Sea—each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, […]

Review: This Green Hell, Greig Beck

Title: This Green Hell (Goodreads) Author:   Greig Beck (@GreigBeck) Rating: In the jungles of Paraguay, Dr Aimee Weir and her team are in trouble. While drilling deep into the Earth a contagion strikes, their camp is quarantined, but workers start to vanish in the night.  Is it fear of contamination – or has something far more lethal surfaced?  […]

Review: Dodger, Terry Pratchett

Title: Dodger (Goodreads) Author:   Terry Pratchett Rating: Dodger is a tosher – a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn’t. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him. And Dodger’s tale of skulduggery, dark plans and […]

Tour: Review: The Enchanted, K.B. Hoyle

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on The Enchanted blog tour! You can find the links to many more opinions and features on the book below my review. Title: The Enchanted (Goodreads) Author:   K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: Darcy Pennington’s course was plotted out for her long before she ever stepped foot in Alitheia. Finally willing to go along […]

Review: The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt, Greg Hildebrandt Jr

Title: The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt (Goodreads) Author:  Greg Hildebrandt Jr Rating: The million- selling Lord of the Rings calendars created during the ’70s by renowned fantasy artists Greg and Tim Hildebrandt are now considered artistic masterpieces. This coffee table art book, “The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt,” collects all that fantastic art, while […]

Review: Quintana of Charyn, Melina Marchetta

Title: Quintana of Charyn (Goodreads) Author:  Melina Marchetta (@MMarchetta1) Rating: Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi must travel through Charyn to search for Quintana, the mother of Charyn’s unborn king, and protect her against those who will do anything to gain power. But what happens when loyalty to family and country conflict? […]

Clock Rewinders (15)

It’s time for a look back over the past week, and to see what’s coming up. This feature is based on the original Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge. Last Week on the Bookcase It’s been very quiet around here lately. Sorry about that! I’ve been very busy at work and haven’t done a lot of […]
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