by amiemccracken | Aug 30, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Chasing Paris by Jen Carter is one of those books that I will be highly recommending this year. It’s about a girl. Her biological grandmother dies, but all of her life she knew another woman as her grandmother. More and more secrets come out as she searches for...
by amiemccracken | Aug 23, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Audrey’s Guide to Witchcraft by Jody Gehrman is the story of a new witch, Audrey. Her mother disappears, a mysterious cousin shows up to babysit, and she has foreboding feelings about it all.The voice in this book was flashy and fun. There was just enough high...
by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2012 | book review, books, reading
I’m very stingy with five-star ratings. That privilege is reserved for those books that really strike a chord with me, the ones where I’m flying through them but at every other sentence or so I have to stop and reread to savor the words. Last year I read...
by amiemccracken | Jun 14, 2012 | book review, books
This short story, Hym and Hur by Phillip Frey, is so fun. Hym and Hur are two, well, I suppose you could call them sprites. They don’t age and they like to wreak havoc. In this short story they make a deal with Death and watch as things unfold.The characters are...
by amiemccracken | Jun 7, 2012 | book review, books, reading, writing
Jessica Bell’s new poetry collection, Fabric, is full of life. It reads like little stories in the lilt and cadence of her tone and voice with raw emotions ranging from anguish to giddyness to satire.I am not a poetry reader, I really wish I were and that I had...
by amiemccracken | May 24, 2012 | book review, books, reading, writing
This isn’t so much a book review as it is my rambling thoughts. I probably should have typed it up right after finishing the book because at that point I was broiling with emotions. I wanted to let it settle, but I’ve waited too long. I want to discuss a...
