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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

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“Your mother’s daughter”:  Is there anything Lady Juliana Fiore fears being more? Her mother, who had abandoned her sons and her title, who courted scandal, then vanished from her children’s’ lives?  In the midst of her own semi-disastrous Season, what will happen when her mother reemerges and scandal erupts once more? Those are some of the questions the lady must answer in Sarah MacLean’s Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart. On top of that, her brother is a recently-reformed, now-married rake, she […]

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Sweet (?) Sixteen

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Turning 16 is a big, meaningful birthday – it’s supposed to be one of those landmark, milestone birthdays that everyone remembers. Girls get a little bit more mileage out of it, what with the whole sweet sixteen thing, but even for guys, turning 16 tends to mean a certain amount of freedom – there’s the whole license thing, just for a start. Mine wasn’t like that, for various reasons, but I remember the hype.  In the book, Sixteen; Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, […]

“Sometimes I think you willed me into existence. Took a look around and thought I don’t want to this on my own. I need backup.”

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From the very first page of We Are the Goldens, – when 15 year-old Nell starts describing her interconnectedness to her sister Layla, and talks about that peculiar, WRONG feeling that happens when you and your sister are mad at each other, I knew this book and I were going to get along. And we did, except that, also from that very first page, also from that very first description of something being ‘off’, the author manages to impart that same sense of discomfort and […]

Beauty and the Beast, (Ish).

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A strange bequest, perhaps the strangest castle ever, and the handsome stranger who insists that it’s his: these are the things facing Miss Isolde Goodnight at the start of Tessa Dare’s Romancing the Duke. But she is perhaps better prepared than most ordinary Society misses,for such an unusual turn of events – as the daughter of a writer famous for his tales of fancy and fantasy, most staring the younger Izzy, herself. . Armed for adventure (and short on any other actual choices), Izzy decides […]

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