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k2reader October 16, 2014

Review: A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer (audio)

Title: A Nantucket Christmas Author: Nancy Thayer Narrator: Joyce Bean Published: October 2013, Brilliance Audio Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Source: Library Known for her heartwarming observations of family life, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer showcases her beloved Nantucket’s snowy off-season in this emotionally gratifying and utterly entertaining story. Holidays on this Massachusetts island are nothing short of magical, from the jolly decorations…

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k2reader October 14, 2014

Review: Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand

Title: Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Published: October 2014, Little, Brown & Company Format: ARC paperback, 256 pages Source: Publisher In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand’s first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket’s Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray.…

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k2reader October 13, 2014

Review: The Homecoming by Robyn Carr

Title: The Homecoming Author: Robyn Carr Series: Thunder Point, #6 Published: August 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: ARC e-copy, 400 pages Source: Netgalley In a small town, reputation is everything. In her latest novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr explores the burden placed on a young man returning home to face his mistakes—the first step in claiming the life he…

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k2reader October 12, 2014

The Sunday Post #44 (10.12.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. Another crazy week work-wise which means that…

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k2reader October 11, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in October 10

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Unfortunately, due to a crazy work schedule this past week, I didn’t get to the gym at all. I did get my walks in and the dogs are really enjoying taking more walks during the day. Hopefully work will settle down and I can get back to my regular fitness routine. I really need to get back to doing some…

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k2reader October 9, 2014

Review: The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell (audio)

Title: The House We Grew Up In Author: Lisa Jewell Narrator: Karina Fernandez Published: September 2013, Whole Story Audiobooks (audio)/August 2014, Atria Books (print) Length: 13 hours, 25 minutes Source: Audio copy via Audible / Netgalley via She Reads Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-colored house in a picture-perfect Cotswolds village, with rambling, unkempt gardens stretching beyond. Pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and tow-headed twins…

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k2reader October 8, 2014

Book Spotlight: The Wife, The Maid & The Mistress by Ariel Lawhorn

Last February, I read The Wife, The Maid & The Mistress by Ariel Lawhorn when it was selected as the monthly book club pick for She Reads and I really enjoyed it! You can find my thoughts on the book here as well as see what the hardcover edition looked like. Yesterday the book was released in paperback with a sassy new cover. I don’t know about you, but I…

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k2reader October 7, 2014

Blog Tour & Review: Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie (audio)

Title: Gutenberg’s Apprentice Author: Alix Christie Narrator: Robert Petkoff Published: September 2014, Harper Audio Length: 14 hours, 14 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany – a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal. Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success…

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k2reader October 6, 2014

Review: Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Title: Truth Be Told Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Series: Jane Ryland/Jake Brogan #3 Published: October 2014, Forge Books Format: ARC E-book, 400 pages Source: Publisher Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home.…

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k2reader October 6, 2014

The Sunday Post #43 (10.5.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. This weekend I helped my sister move.…

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k2reader October 4, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in October 3

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog So, I went back to the gym this week and did 2 days of treadmill walking and then took a yoga class. While I’ve been doing some yoga here and there at home, I haven’t taken an actual class in a while and am planning to work it back into my schedule. It’s nice to mix it up a bit.…

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k2reader October 2, 2014

Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins (CLOSED)

***Congratulations to Melanie Backus, winner of the giveaway!!! Thanks to all who entered! Title: In Your Dreams Author: Kristan Higgins Series: Blue Heron, # 4 Published: September 2014, Harlequin HQN Format: ARC E-book, 480 pages Source: Netgalley via Little Bird Publicity Everyone loves Jack Holland, but Emmaline Neal needs him. Her ex-fiancé is getting married in Malibu and, obviously, she can’t go…

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k2reader October 1, 2014

Month in Review: September 2014

It’s hard to believe it’s already October! This year is flying by…and I really wish it would slow down just a bit. I’ve got way too many books to read and just not enough time to read them all. Now, though, all the Fall TV shows are back, so that’s competing for my reading time. Luckily, I can crochet while I watch TV and I have quite a few projects…

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k2reader September 30, 2014

Review: Perfect Together by Carly Phillips (audio)

Title: Perfect Together Author: Carly Phillips Series: Serendipity’s Finest, #3 Narrator: David Barker Published: 2014, Recorded Books Length: 8.5 hours Source: Publisher In the picturesque town of Serendipity, New York, three siblings have grown up in the shadow of their proud and respected police chief father. But what do love, fate, and fortune have in store for the next generation of Serendipity’s…

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k2reader September 29, 2014

Review: Burn by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

Title: Burn Author: James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge Series: Michael Bennett, #7 Published: September 2014, Little, Brown & Company Format: ARC Paperback, 401 pages Source: Publisher Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City – and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career. At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks…

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k2reader September 28, 2014

The Sunday Post #42 (9.28.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. Usually my weekends are a time for…

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k2reader September 26, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 26

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Today I went and renewed my membership at the gym. I haven’t really been there since the early spring, but now that it’s getting lighter out later in the mornings, I think I will go back to going to the gym first thing in the mornings to walk on the treadmill a few days a week. Plus, I desperately need…

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k2reader September 25, 2014

Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (audio)

Title: The Cuckoo’s Calling Author: Robert Galbraith Series: Cormoran Strike, #1 Narrator: Robert Glenister Published: May 2013, Hachette Audio Length: 16 hours Source: Library A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to…

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k2reader September 23, 2014

Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne (CLOSED)

Title: Angel Killer Author: Andrew Mayne Series: Jessica Blackwood, #1 Published: September 2014, Bourbon Street Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate…

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k2reader September 22, 2014

Review: Barefoot in the Rain by Roxanne St. Claire

Title: Barefoot in the Rain Author: Roxanne St. Claire Series: Barefoot Bay, #2 Published: October 2012, Forever Format: Paperback, Source: Personal copy They say you can never go home again . . . When “Life Coach to the Stars” Jocelyn Bloom is embroiled in scandal, the only place she can hide is the one place she wishes she could forget. She…

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k2reader September 21, 2014

The Sunday Post #41 (9.21.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. Fall is almost here and while we’ve had…

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k2reader September 20, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 19

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I was doing really good this week until I woke up Thursday with a nasty head cold! And it came out of no where…I was in the city on Wednesday and felt totally fine. I walked around all afternoon – managing to get in over 20,000 steps, even!!! It was a great day, just wandering around. Then Thursday morning…

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k2reader September 19, 2014

Review: Winter of the World by Ken Follett

Title: Winter of the World Author: Ken Follett Series: The Century Trilogy, #2 Published: September 2012, Dutton Adult Format: Hardcover, 940 pages Source: Personal copy Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and…

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k2reader September 16, 2014

Short & Sweet Review: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs

Title: Fatal Voyage Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Brennan, #4 Narrator: Kate Harper Published: August 2001, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is first on…

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k2reader September 14, 2014

The Sunday Post #40 (9.14.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. This past week was so busy at work…

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k2reader September 13, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 12

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog This past week was crazy busy at work. I work mainly from home, occasionally going into the office for meetings or trainings. This week, though, I had be in the office every day to cover the phones due to sick leave and vacation coverage, so it really messed up my regular schedule. I got in short walks each day, but…

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k2reader September 12, 2014

Review: The Other Girl by Pam Jenoff

Title: The Other Girl Author: Pam Jenoff Published: September 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: E-book, 21 pages Source: Netgalley One woman’s determination to protect a child from the dangers of war will force her to face those lurking closer to home… Life in rural Poland during WWII brings a new set of challenges to Maria, estranged from her own family and left alone with…

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k2reader September 11, 2014

Review: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Title: Fall of Giants Author: Ken Follett Series: Century Trilogy, #1 Published: September 2010, Dutton Adult Format: Hardcover, 985 pages Source: Personal copy Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in…

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k2reader September 8, 2014

Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: Accidents of Marriage by Randy Susan Meyers (CLOSED)

Title: Accidents of Marriage Author: Randy Susan Meyers Published: September 2014, Atria Books Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Accidents of Marriage examines the effect of a husband—and father’s—verbal rage and the aftermath of a serious accident caused by his unchecked anger. For Madeline Illica, her husband Ben is her greatest blessing and biggest curse. Brilliant and caring, he turns into a raging bull…

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k2reader September 8, 2014

The Sunday Post #39 (9.7.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. I spent this past weekend at my sister’s…

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k2reader September 6, 2014

Review: Sight Unseen by Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen (audio)

Title: Sight Unseen Author: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #2 Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: July 2014, Brilliance Audio Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award winning author are back with a new a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI A deadly…

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k2reader September 5, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 5

#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I’m slowly getting myself back on a regular schedule with my walking. I always feel so much better when I get my walking in each day. Plus, I’m determined that for this month, in addition to doing my regular fitness walks (which I list below) I get an overall 10,000 steps in a day 5 days a week and 5,000…

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k2reader September 5, 2014

Review: Conversion by Katherine Howe (audio)

Title: Conversion Author: Katherine Howe Narrator: Khristine Hvam Published: July 2014, Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts:…

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k2reader September 3, 2014

Cover Reveal: The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau

Publication Date: March 24, 2015 Touchstone Publishing Formats: eBook, Hardcover Pages: 390 Genre: Historical Mystery Series: Joanna Stafford, Book Three In THE CROWN, Sister Joanna Stafford searched for a Dark Ages relic that could save her priory from Cromwell’s advancing army of destruction. In THE CHALICE, Joanna was drawn into an international conspiracy against Henry VIII himself as she struggled to learn the truth behind a prophecy of his destruction.…

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k2reader September 1, 2014

Month in Review: August 2014

How is it September already? I feel like the summer was just starting the other day and yet fall will be here before we know it…I do have to say, I love the fall – the crisp, cool days, the changing leaves – I just hope we have a fall season before we move into winter! There are a ton of books coming out this fall and I’m hoping my…

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k2reader August 31, 2014

The Sunday Post #38 (8.31.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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k2reader August 30, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 29

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Last weekend we went to the beach and had a great time. I even convinced my hubby to take a walk with me Sunday morning – it was so nice!!! The rest of the week consisted of me taking lots of short walks with a sick dog…luckily she’s finally feeling better! Here’s…

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k2reader August 29, 2014

Blog Tour & Author Q&A: Lori Foster – With Giveaway!!! (CLOSED)

Today, I am pleased to welcome Lori Foster to Always With a Book. Her latest book, No Limits, is the first book in her Ultimate series. It is now available. You can read my review of the book here. Please enjoy this Q&A and be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of No Limits below! Can you tell us a little bit about your…

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k2reader August 29, 2014

Blog Tour, Review & Excerpt: No Limits by Lori Foster

Title: No Limits Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #1 Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN Format: ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source: Publisher A surprise inheritance reunites a mixed martial arts fighter with the woman he’s never forgotten in the first in a smoldering new series from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster… Cannon Colter is quintessential hero material: chiseled jawline, shredded body—the…

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k2reader August 28, 2014

Review: Hard Knocks by Lori Foster

Title: Hard Knocks Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #0.5 Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN Format: E-book, 60 pages Source: Personal copy In the stunning prequel novella to her new mixed martial arts series, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings together an elite fighter and the woman he’s determined to win. Power. Brute strength. Unforgettable moves. It’s no wonder Harper…

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k2reader August 27, 2014

Review: Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich (audio)

Title: Top Secret Twenty-One Author: Janet Evanovich Series: Stephanie Plum, #21 Narrator: Lorelei King Published: June 2014, Random House Audio Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was…

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k2reader August 25, 2014

Blog Tour & Review: Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo

Title: Three Story House Author: Courtney Miller Santo Published: August 2014, William Morrow & Co Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of…

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k2reader August 25, 2014

The Sunday Post #37 (8.24.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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k2reader August 22, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 22

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week was a bit of an off week for me. I ended up having a headache that lasted 5 days…nothing seemed to make it go away so exercising was the last thing on my mind. I did manage to get in some easy walks, but nothing strenuous. Luckily, the headache has subsided, and…

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k2reader August 20, 2014

Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman (CLOSED)

Title: After I’m Gone Author: Laura Lippman Published: August 2014 (Reprint); William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses,…

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k2reader August 19, 2014

Book Blast & Giveaway: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee

Author Alison Atlee’s The Typewriter Girl is now an audiobook, narrated by Audie winner Rosalyn Landor, and in celebration she’ll be touring the blogosphere from August 4-29 with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours! Enter to win a copy at the end of this post! I read this book last year when it first came out in print edition and you can read my review here. Audible Audio Book Edition Release…

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k2reader August 18, 2014

Review: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Title: The Good Girl Author: Mary Kubica Published: July 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.”…

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k2reader August 17, 2014

The Sunday Post #36 (8.17.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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k2reader August 15, 2014

Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 15

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Another week has come and gone! It wasn’t quite as busy as last week and I was able to get in my walks each day. I also decided to do some inside walking while catching up on my DVR instead of just sitting on the couch – might as well be productive while watching…

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k2reader August 15, 2014

Review: The Collector by Nora Roberts (audio)

Title: The Collector Author: Nora Roberts Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: April 2014, Brilliance Audio Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart . . . When…

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