About six years ago, I wrote a list of the Top 15 Things You'll Find in a Hallmark Movie. Since then, this post has been viewed a couple thousand times and my love for Hallmark sub-par storylines has only grown. It has been a while, so I decided to share my favorite Hallmark Christmas movies. [...]
Review: All That It Takes by Nicole Deese
When the ever-cautious Val Locklier finally agrees to a cross-country move with her nine-year-old son to take a job with her best friend, Molly, everything she had planned for the future unravels within the first week. After pushing aside her anxieties about renting an apartment from Molly's twin brother, whom she barely knows, she accepts [...]
Review: All That Really Matters by Nicole Deese
Molly McKenzie's bright personality and on-trend fashion and beauty advice have earned her an impressive social media following, as well as a shiny monthly paycheck. When her manager-turned-boyfriend tells her of an upcoming audition to host a makeover show for America's underprivileged youth, all her dreams finally seem to be coming true. There's just one [...]
Big Book Giveaway!
Hey everyone! I just recently cleaned my bookshelves and I have to part with some great books. I've already donated most to lending libraries in the area (love those!), but I still have four that I would love to send out to four lucky people. TWO are SIGNED by the authors themselves... I can sign [...]
Review: Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
“I made the wrong choice.” Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants [...]
Review: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might [...]
Review: Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser
Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. For generations, her family has been called by the river god, who has guided their wherries on countless voyages throughout the Riverlands. At seventeen, Caro has spent years listening to the water, ready to meet her fate. But the river god hasn’t spoken her name yet—and if he [...]
Review: Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith
Let luck find you. Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday—just when it seems they might be on the brink of something—she buys him a lottery ticket on a [...]
Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Top 15 Things You’ll Find in a Hallmark Channel movie
If you know me, you are aware of my over-the-top love for Hallmark Channel movies. Perhaps it was a love born out of only having basic cable for most of my life or perhaps I'm a glutton for ridiculously cheesy, sub-par romantic plot lines. Whatever the case may be, here's fifteen things that you most [...]