Merry Christmas, readers! Although this won’t be my last post for the year, it will be my last Weekend Book Buzz before Christmas. As much as I love you all, I won’t be doing a post next weekend(!) so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and thank you all for making this blog a fun place to inhabit cyberspace. <3 But there’s plenty of bookish news to share this week, so let’s get to it!
Top Ten Tuesday is on a six-week hiatus at the moment, and while I may still come up with some top ten posts for you during that time, I’m taking the opportunity today to do something a little different. If you’ve read some of my recent posts, you’ll know that the final book in the Serena Jones Mystery Series releases today (YAY!), and you’ll also know that it has been much anticipated by me (and countless other readers) because it will give us the answer to the big question: Which man will win Serena’s affection? Nate Butler or Tanner Calhoun?
~ About the Book ~ He had not come all this way just to break another woman’s heart. When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown LA, he’s not sure where he’s going or what he’s looking for. Putting his acting career—and his fiancée—on hold, he’s searching for something he can’t define, a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Once he dreamed of being a singer in the classic style of Sinatra and Bennett. But his lean good looks soon landed him in movies as the sexy “bad guy”—and in the arms of a
We still have one week before we get back to our regular Top Ten Tuesday post care of the girls at The Broke and The Bookish, but when I took a look at the topic for next week (Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR) I thought, You’ve got to be kidding me. Just 10? So, welcome to Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR Part 1! 😄 This week, I’m featuring books releasing in March and the first half of April (in order of release date). Tune in next week for books releasing in the second half of April and
Publisher’s Description: Esther Larsen, a leading risk analyst at one of the country’s largest banking institutions, is becoming more and more convinced that she has uncovered a ticking bomb with the potential to overshadow 2008’s market crash. And as her own employer pursues “investment” strategies with ever-increasing levels of risk, she becomes convinced she must do something. Yet what can one person really do? The markets are edging closer to a tipping point–like the teetering first domino in a standing row that circles the globe. And when Esther does sound the alarm, she wonders if anyone will take her
When she returned to the hotel, she discovered the senator pacing on the sidewalk in front of the entrance. “Where on earth have you been?” “Walking.” She held up her camera. “Taking pictures.” “Never mind that. Come on, we don’t have a moment to lose!” “But…I must change clothes.” “No time for that!” He bundled her into a waiting transom cab and ordered her to tell the driver to make all possible haste. Muriel asked, “Where are we going?” “The Abbey of Saint Denis. You have heard of it?” “Of course. But what is the hurry?” “Listen very carefully.
As an Australian, travelling in Europe is awe-inspiring. Walking into places like Westminster Abbey or Notre Dame, breathing in their history, singing in services that have been taking place in these building since before my own country was fully charted on the world map… It is a deeply visceral experience that I struggle to put into words. In Davis Bunn’s latest release, The Fragment, the main character, Muriel Ross, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime when she is asked to accompany a long-time family friend to Paris in the early 1920s. Her hometown of Alexandria, Virginia, seems ‘trapped in