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About Melina

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As a four time participant and the time Cannonball Read failure, I stand before you ready to kick ass, read books and somehow keep my children clean and sign their homework books daily (well that's never going to happen, so let's hope I can at least read 52 books this year). Teacher of 160 seniors, mom of 3 kids/ two dogs, and wife to one pretty great husband. I need a nap and some Calgon (substitute Calgon with rum) so that I can rinse and repeat this insanity on a daily basis.

Melina's Reviews:

There’s a Monster at the End of This Book

May 4, 2018 by Melina 1 Comment

Life is a balancing act.  We have to balance what we want to do with what we have to do. We have to balance our comfort with our risks.  Eliza Mirk has lived a mostly anonymous online life where she has created one of the most popular stories on the Internet.  Written and drawn in installments, Monstrous Sea pretty much consumes Eliza’s life.  When she is first introduced to a new student named Wallace, she thinks he’s just another jock who will make fun of her, […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, eliza and her monsters, francesca zappia, Melina, YA lit

Lots of Lies

March 27, 2018 by Melina Leave a Comment

When Will leaves for a conference in Orlando and a plane heading towards Seattle goes down, his wife Iris feels badly for her students, friends and colleagues who might’ve known someone on the flight. She does her best as a school counselor to help everyone she can.  However, when she gets the call her that her husband has died on that flight and that there was no conference scheduled in Orlando, what she knows about her husband and what the truth is are two very […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR10, Kimberly Belle, lifetime movies, Melina, missing husband, mystery, The Marriage Lie

Finally a Book I Could Attach Myself To…

March 20, 2018 by Melina 2 Comments

Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl. If you watch horror or slasher movies, you know that the Final Girl is the one who manages to survive against the odds while all of her friends die horrific deaths.  Quincy became one after all of her friends were slaughtered on what should’ve been a fun break from college at a mountain house in the Poconos.  Ten years later, Quincy has stayed out of the public eye, fallen in love and achieved success as a baker.  The almost […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR10, Final Girl, horror, Melina, Riley Sager, slasher

Stay Out of the Woods!

February 12, 2018 by Melina Leave a Comment

In reading a few of Ruth Ware’s books, I’ve learned that either I’m a genius or her plot twists can be seen a mile away. In this case, I guessed it when I was reading the synopsis on Amazon.  But…hear me out, Ruth Ware’s writing is pretty tight and you’re still drawn in even though you’re going to know what’s going to happen.   This wasn’t one of my favorites of hers because I thought that the last 1/3 of the book was blah.  The building […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #CBR10, In a Dark Dark Wood, Melina, murder, mystery, Ruth Ware

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