Wordless Wednesday

okay crazy sock day at my kids school. This was for Red Ribbon week.

This weeks Plans

Dr visits for B,K

reading and reviewing more books

Having a Blog event about Family safety at my house...I'm excited about this topic...so if you are in the area...you are welcome to come and partake of the food/information and giveaway.

Figuring out Thanksgiving plans

Among Thieves-- Book Review

In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what remains one of the greatest unsolved art thefts of the twentieth century. Now, nearly twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open. Members of Boston's criminal underground are turning up dead. But these are no ordinary murders. The M.O. of the attacks suggests the involvement of someone trained by the IRA. But when Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of the heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork-a hunt that may cost Finn and his colleagues their lives.( Goodreads.com)

This is my first time reading this author. I loved where the story was set in Boston. I have been wanting to visit this lovely city for some time.

There are 4 main characters in this book...Finn, Koz, Lissa, and Sally. There are many point of views through the book/story.

There was alot of action at the very end and this book did keep me up reading late. There was alot of swearing though out the book --realistic to the characters but I didn't like it.

Finn--- lawyer
Koz--PI
Lissa-- paralegal, dating Koz
Sally-- daughter of a client

This book comes out Jan 10, 2010 and $24.99

I gave this book =3

Thanks to GrandCentral for the book to review and this is my Honest review of the book.

The Unnamed-- Book Review

Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking( Good Reads.com)

I have never read anything by this author before.

I found it to be an interesting concept and tone of the book was sad. There are 3 point of views of Becca, Tim, and Jane.

Its an interesting illness that Tim deals with through out his life and what the family does to cope with it.

This story is broken down into 4 parts. I found this book thought provoking on illness does to family and religion, body or soul and addictions.

This book comes out Jan 18, 2010 and $24.99.

My review - 3

Thanks to little Brown for the book to review and this is my Honest review.

The Swan Thieves-- Book Review

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. In response, Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Ranging from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love, THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope. ( Good Reads.com)

This book comes out Jan 10,2010 and $ 26.99

I had not read The Historian by this author or anything else.

I had a tough getting into the book and I love the attention to details. I Love ART and a good Book . Its slow moving and I understand that its setting up the more complex details.

It has different point of views of Marlow, Kate and Mary. There is also some letters from the past of 1895

Its a interesting story of what a drives a person mad and the lengths a person does to solve it. It was very slow moving and finally starting getting better toward the end. But all the details was a bit much at times. This was the longest it has taken me to read a book in a while.

The characters of Kate and Mary were likable. I couldn't relate to Marlow at all. I did notice that Marlow life seemed to be mirroring the 1897 version.

If you read her other book , then read this one.

I give this a 3

Thanks to Little Brown for the book to review and this is honest review of the book.

Blog with Bite Questions--Intertwined

#1 Do you feel the ending was cut short and needed more to be resolved before the book ended?

I realized it was going to be a series , so it had to cut short as to hook the reader to finish the series. I did think it brought more questions than answers to mind about all the characters.

#2 Regarding Question #1, what are your thoughts on series books? For one you get more and more and more - depending on how long the series drags on - for another some series leave you with very little resolution at the end of the novels, i.e. the Merry Gentry series where only a couple of hours pass within the time span of one book. Do you find this is just an authors way of having guaranteed book sales - or do you really enjoy series and love reading about your fav characters over and over again? I think a series is an authors way be bound to a publishing house and there are characters in series that I do like to reread like Mortal Instruments or Twilight or Hunger Games. It all depends on the series or author, if I will reread the books.

#3 Which "trapped" soul was your favorite and do you see potential in the future story lines with the remaining three? I would say Eve because as a Parent I could relate on some level to her and taking care of Aden. I loved that she was the mother hen to all the boys. I could each book being focused on each of the voices trapped in Aden head. I did think the next book was going to focus on Caleb/ Witches. I did think each book was going voice and what ever problem Aden was going to encounter with his gang.

#4 When a larger-than-life character such as Vlad Tepes aka Dracula is used as a side-plot character do you believe it gives the story a more factual base, or makes it less real? It didn't do anything for me at all. I got that Victoria was Princess Vampire .

#5 What did you think of the side plot involving Tucker and Penny? Do you think the issues from that plot were adequately resolved? I thought that this a more NORMAL attempt at showing the real relationships along side Paranormal relationships. NO I don't it adequately resolved but this is a series so we will see what happens. It was nice to show what happens with real friendships and hooking up and bad effects of it.

#6 What is your best guess as to what Aden Stone's superpower is - the power he possess without his souls? So far my Guess is that he is able to harness all the voices in his head from different places. But It then makes me wonder about his parents and why Mary Ann is able to calm those voices. But I'll guess we can find out more when the next book comes out.

Intertwined--BWB Book Review

There’s something about the new guy at Crossroads High . . . Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: One can time-travel. One can raise the dead. One can tell the future. And one can possess another human. With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now, they’re causing him all kinds of trouble. Like, he’ll blink and suddenly he’s a younger Aden, reliving the past. One wrong move, and he’ll change the future. Or, he’ll walk past a total stranger and know how and when she’s going to die. He’s so over it. All he wants is peace. And then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. Well, for as long as he’s with her. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. He’s a loner; she has friends. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks; she tries to make everyone happy. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. For her sake, he should stay away. But it’s too late. . . Somehow, they share an inexplicable bond of friendship. A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own and a vampire princess Aden can’t resist. Two romances, both forbidden. . . doomed. Still, the four will enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger. . . but not everyone will come out alive. . . ( Goodreads.com)


I read this book twice. I did like the cover and it meant something to the book. This is a Young Adult novel by Gena Showalter. Its a Harlequin teen novel.


I have never read this author before. I think that this is interesting concept with a boy being able to do all these things. He has 3 boys and 1 girl in his mind/body.


Aden is in a boys ranch and has no clue on his parents at all.


Mary Ann is able to stop the voices in Aden head and do think that is interesting that they were born the same day and in the hospital.


Eve--time travel , Caleb--posses people , Julian-- raise the dead , Elijah -- has visions.This is going to be a series from what I could tell at the end of the book.


The story was told in Aden/Mary Ann points of view. I liked Mary Ann and her romance with Riley. I liked that she had the 15 year plan and wanted to be Doctor like her father. I liked the romance and how it slowly grew between them. I was surprised that I was wolf fan in this book.

I liked Aden romance with Victoria but it seemed forced. I didn't really like them at all. I think her being a Vampire princess was a turn off for me. It was interesting that she supposed to marry someone that she didn't like at all.


I didn't like that there was mention of so many things all at once like fairies, witches, goblins. I was losing track who the bad people were.


I do think that Aden is going to lose a friend in each of the book and they are going to help him with the problem at hand and he is going to lose them like he did with Eve. I didn't like ending with Aden and becoming Vampire king and the fight with Dimitri( Victoria fiance')


Cute line : Were my waffles sprinkled with crack ?



I do think its interesting that Caleb knows the witches which leads me to believe that he'll be the focus along with what ever problem they have to solve.



Overall it was an okay book. I really liked the Mary Ann/ Riley romance and wanted more of them and not Aden, but I understand Aden is the Main character and its going to be like Buffy Gang and them all working together.

I bought this book and this is my honest review.

3-Its good for a 1 time read
BWB score- 2