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Sorry for not posting!

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Hi guys! I just wanted to say sorry for not posting!! I'm traveling... I'm at Chile visiting my family for a couple of weeks and haven't read.... not even on the plane! :/ Maybe I'll find some time to relax and do some reading.....after all, it's winter and I just want to stay in my warm bed and have some tea hehe You can still find my at twitter: @ohmybooks . I'll try to post some pictures :P

Graphic Novel Review: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Published June 8th 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun hom...

Spotlight + Giveaway: Lost in Starlight by Sherry Soule #StarlightSaga

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Today author, Sherry Soule has some exciting news to share with us! She will be publishing a brand new upper YA series: the “Starlight Saga” (paranormal romance with a Sci-Fi concept) with scorching-hot character chemistry and exciting suspense has been published today, June 26, 2014!!! To help promote this interstellar love story, “LOST IN STARLIGHT,” Sherry is doing this fun virtual release party and $20 Amazon gift card giveaway all day to share the book love. ENTER TODAY ONLY! Please buy your copy of LOST IN STARLIGHT on June 26th 2014! VOLUME ONE: Starlight Saga High school reporter Sloane Masterson knows she has one helluva story when she witnesses hottie Hayden Lancaster bending forks with his mind. Like any good journalist, Sloane sets out to uncover the truth, even if it includes a little stalking. When the superhuman feats start to pile up and the undeniable heat rises between them, Hayden has no choice but to reveal his secret: he’s an alien hybrid. ...

Empower: Fight Like A Girl

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Hi! May is Lupus Awareness Month and I wanted to share a little about 'Empower: Fight Like A Girl'. All profits will be donated to the  Lupus Foundation of America  to help solve the cruel mystery of lupus, so if you can help, please do! Women of TV have united against lupus! Presenting Empower: Fight Like A Girl , a special collection of short stories by top women writers from some of your favorite shows, including: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Family Guy, Person of Interest, Grimm, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order: SVU, Star Trek: Voyager, Eureka, Twisted, The 100, Malcolm in the Middle, Millennium, Being Human, The Shield, Castle, Chuck, Gilmore Girls, and Game of Thrones. In this anthology, you'll discover supernatural thrillers, crime mysteries, horror, comedies, and more. Amazon  |  Goodreads Praise for  Empower: Fight Like A Girl "Even non-girls will feel empowered by these stories about ordinary, flaw...

About some changes....

As you can see, I changed the layout! I loved my previous purple layout but I wanted a change. Of course I'm not a blog designer so the new layout is going to be pretty simple. Simple works for me, I like simple! It's still a work in progress until I'm happy.... I'm experimenting a little bit and playing with creativity so maybe it will change more. :) Recommendations are welcome!

Book Review: Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz

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Published November 1st 2012 by Razorbill Age: Young Adult SOLVING CRIME, ONE FACIAL EXPRESSION AT A TIME Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions. But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate's birthday celebration, Colin is the only for the investigation. It's up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin's frequent tormenter, didn't bring the gun to school. After all, Wayne didn't have frosting on his hands, and there was white chocolate frosting found on the grip of the smoking gun... Colin Fischer is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, and his story--as told by the screenwriters of X-Men: First Class and Thor--is perfect for readers who have graduated from Encyclopedia Brown and who are ready to consider the greatest mystery of all: what other people are thinking and feeling. I discovered this book by lu...

Spotlight & Giveaway: Prejudice Meets Pride by Rachael Anderson

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After years of pinching pennies and struggling to get through art school, Emma Makie’s hard work finally pays off with the offer of a dream job. But when tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to make a cross-country move to Colorado Springs to take temporary custody of her two nieces. She has no money, no job prospects, and no idea how to be a mother to two little girls, but she isn’t about to let that stop her. Nor is she about to accept the help of Kevin Grantham, her handsome new neighbor, who seems to think she’s incapable of doing anything on her own. Fun, compelling, and romantic, Prejudice Meets Pride is the story of a guy who thinks he has it all figured out and a girl who isn't afraid to show him that he doesn't. It’s about learning what it means to trust, figuring out how to give and to take, and realizing that not everyone gets to pick the person they fall in love with. Sometimes, love picks them. Amazon Coming Soon... Tour Schedu...