Headless bodies have started appearing across town in Trenton, New Jersey. At first, it's just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. Then a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church. Stephanie Plum knows that she's the only one wi…

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had this on my Paperwhite for several months, but just wasn't ready to read it. Not so soon after Carrie Fisher passed away. I needed a bit of time. With the next Star Wars movie coming out soon, I finall…

It's been a year since it happened-when Paige Hancock's first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school. . .and she has a plan. First: Get her old crush, Ryan Chase, to date her-the perfe…

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.  Viv's…

Hey! The fourth week is almost over. We're hitting the bottom end of November, and December is just around the corner.  So how's your NaNo novel going? As I mentioned in my post earlier this week, I validated my NaNoWriMo WIP on Tuesday. Then I took Wednesday off to read …

Beauty and the Beast by Bayard Taylor My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm a fan of Disney's Beauty and the Beast . It's one of those stories that has been told over and over again, so I decided to read this version. When Beauty's father takes a rose to give to his yo…

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie My rating: 3 of 5 stars I decided to read this book because although I've grown up reading/watching stories featuring Peter Pan, I'd never actually read the original. So I picked up a free copy for my Kindle yesterday and got stuck into it. …

Yesterday, I validated my novel... Yay!! As I mentioned on Friday , I technically finished the first draft of my latest WIP then. BUT , during the weekend I made a small list of stuff that needed to be added before (really) calling it done . That's what I did on Monday …

F riend. Lover. Victim. Traitor. When you look in the mirror, what do yo u see? Sixteen-year-old friends Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits; still figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Life isn't perfect, but music brings them together, and they are excited a…

What I hope you take away from this book: good Mexican food deserves to go viral; good underwear never features the word 'string'; good mental health is the single most important thing you need to live a happy life. I don't have a psychology degree - in fact, I once t…

The third week of NaNoWriMo is over. Well, it's over for me because it's Friday in Oz and I spent the day adding new words to my WIP.  This was a busy week because asides from adding a bunch of words, hubby and daughter were home for a few days (sick leave), we went …

When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided viole…

URGENT!  An epidemic is sweeping the country. You are among the infected. There is no cure, and you cannot be permitted to infect others. You are now under quarantine.   The very few of the infected who survive are dangerous and will be taken into the custody of the army.    You…

So. The second week of NaNoWriMo  is almost over, huh? Well, for me it is because I'll be taking the weekend off. I've got some notes to take, ideas to jot down and a chapter summary to update but I won't be adding any new words until Monday. And that's cool. I …

The Murderer by Ray Bradbury My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is another story my daughter read for school and suggested I check out. I like Ray Bradbury and I enjoy a good short story, so I did. Mr. Brock calls himself The Murderer because he's made it his mission to kill a…

Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things  Asha is a dragon-slayer. Reviled by the very people she's sworn to protect, she kills to atone for the wicked deed she committed as a child - one that almost destroyed her city, and left her with a terrible scar.  But pro…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow. What a clever story! My daughter read this for English, and since she knows I like creepy tales of madness, she recommended I check this out. I'm glad I did. A woman and her husband go to…

The Haunting by Alex Bell My rating: 5 of 5 stars I borrowed this book from the library because it sounded interesting and also because I lurve YA horror. So I was really looking forward to getting stuck into it and couldn't put it down. But because I started NaNoWriMo this…

It's hereeeeeeee! (whispers in creepy Poltergeist movie voice)  Can you believe NaNoWriMo is here again? Or that it's actually November? The year is moving fast. Too fast, if you ask me. As I mentioned in my post last month , of course I'm taking part in NaNoWri…