Author: Cindy

Across the Pond Review

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PUB DATE: September 2008
GENRE: YA Romance

I have to start off by thanking Dorothy at Pump Up Your Promo for inquiring if I would be interested in reading this and to Barry AKA Storyheart for sending me the book. I really enjoyed reading the book. It was such a cute story about love and friendship.

The book starts with Fred who is 15 years old and he is on a plane on his way to America. He is going to go and visit friends of his parents. His parents are away on holiday in Australia. They won a contest for two and were unable to take Fred. Fred had the choice of either going to Scotland to visit his grandparents or to America. He chose America.

Fred has a hard time understanding the American culture and some of the language they use. There is some differences in the words that they use in England and the words used here. For example: Dummy in England is a Pacifier here and Eggplant here is Auborgine there.

Fred is in love with Brittany (the daughter of his parents friends). He sees how quiet Brit gets when Steve shows up and starts threatening them. She confides in Fred about what has happened. They set out to seek revenge for what he has do to her and her friends. He wants to make sure that once he goes back to England that Brit and her friends will be safe and out of trouble.

Brit’s parents take them both to a baseball game. The Mets vs The Braves. During the game Fred catches Chip Evans 500th hit. No sooner has it caught the ball he is hit with offers of how much does he want for that ball. They make a quick getaway. Fred won’t sell the ball for any amount of money. The rep for the Braves makes contact with Fred and Fred makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Fred wants to make sure that Brittany won’t forget about him when he goes home.

There is so many great points to the book that I am dying to share with you but I don’t want to give away too much of the book. Its a really cute book that I suggest you go out and get.

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Sum Forty Tales From the Afterlife

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PUB DATE: Febuary 10th 2009

Sum Forty Tales From the Afterlife is a collection of forty short stories that is solely fiction. The short stories represent an array of possibilities of what could happen in the afterlife.

Each of the stories are different in which we find that God takes many forms such as a married couple, aliens, a woman, and a “species of dumb witter obtuse creatures”.

In Circle of friends you find out that in the afterlife if contains only people you remember. Imagine living in that afterlife? It would be nice and scary at the same time.

Encore is about being in an afterlife that is recreated by all your tracked records ie birth, marriage, death, phone records of every call you ever made and to who, every credit card purchase is retrieved and looked at, school records, video is analyzed for your appearances and basically every single thing you have done in your life. What would your records say about you?

Decent of Species is about being in the afterlife and you are given a chance to come back as anything you really wanted to in the next life and that you should think about it first. The person in the story thought about coming back as a horse but then realized as nice as it would be a horse he realized that when the horse died the horse would have the capacity to ask it become human again.

This was a quick read that made me think about the afterlife and what it could possibly be like. I have to thank Penguin Canada/Twitter for sending me this book to read and review.

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Slinky S

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Kathy from Bermudaonion took part in this meme from Trish at Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’?. You are assigned a random letter from the alphabet and you have to come up with 10 things you love/like that begin with that letter. Kathy assigned me the letter S and I am so thankfully its an easy letter.

Here are my favorite things that begin with “S”

1. Strawberry Cheesecake. I love strawberry cheesecake. This is my favorite dessert of all time.

2. Shopping. I admit it I am a shopaholic hands down.

3. Snuggling. I love to snuggle on the couch with my son, Michael and read books or watch movies with him.

4. Stacks of books every where. I love to read so having books around me is a great feeling.

5. Satelite tv. We have had satelite tv for many years now and we love it. I am able to watch the news or shows from the East Coast.

6. Spring. When the weather is warmer and the flowers start to bloom. What’s not to love about spring?

7. Smells. I love the smells of lilac trees and baked goods.

8. Salmon Beach. That is the name of the little town I grew up in. Right behind our house was the beach.

9. Sales. I love checking out sales especially for books for Michael and I.

10. Snow flakes. Kathy didn’t think I would mention this but I love the those big fluffy kind of snowflakes.

If you would love take part leave me a comment and I will randomly pick a letter for you.

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Things that make me HAPPY

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I was tagged with this meme by Lilly at Reading Extravaganza.

The rules for the tag are simple.
Link to the person who has tagged you.
Write down six things that make you happy. Post the rules, tag six others and let them know you did it.
Then tell the person when your entry is complete.

1. Shopping. I admit it I am a shopaholic.

2. Reading. I am always reading. Its a nice way to relax at the end of the day.

3. Ice Cappachino’s. This is my absolute favorite drink in the summer to have from Tim Horton’s. I try to sneak it in even in the winter if I can.

4. Friends. Being with friends and hanging out, talking about whatever.

5. My son, Michael. He is a constant source of entertainment. You never know what to expect from him.

6. Travelling. It can be just local trips or longer trips. I love to travel and I am hoping that we will be able to go to Hungary this summer for a vacation and if not maybe somewhere south of the border.

Here is the 6 people I am tagging:

Myckyee at BooksBound
Avis at She Reads and Reads
Jane at Jane’s Ride
Kathy at Bermudaonion
Tina at Bookshipper
Kaye at Kayes Penguin Posts

If you have been tagged for this meme before I apologize. Just let me know. Looking forward to your replies.

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January Happenings

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January has come and gone. Hard to believe its passed so quickly. Here in Canada January was pretty cold so its nice to finally be done with January and look forward to the next two months before spring comes.

I joined two challenges in January. The first challenge was Buy a Book Read a Book. The goal of this challenge is you buy and read that book. You will be supporting the author and store. The second challenge was 100+ Reading Challenge and the goal of this challenge is read 100+ books in 2009.

I have read 13 books in the month of January and I have post 13 reviews.

I was lucky enough to get 27 books delivered to my door.

I was also lucky enough to get 3 awards on my blog. Thank you to Jane for the Premio Dardos Award. Thank you to Luanne for the butterfly award. Thank you to Ruthie for the lemonaide award. Those awards meant alot to me. Its nice to see that people are reading and visiting my blog.

Also in January I met up with Avis, Donna and Tina at our regular meeting place for some great home made hot chocolate. From that meet up 9 books managed to jump into my bag.

I went and bought 5 books. They were The Prenup, 3 Willows, Kiss Me Kill Me, Delia’s Heart and Great Hair by Nick Arrojo.

My stats weren’t that great but I did manage to get some new visitors come and comment on contests I was running. I love reading your comments.

Thank you to some fellow bloggers for the advise I got on how to make my blog better I appreciate all the advise and I took it all and made some changes to my blog.

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**No More Us For You Review

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GENRE: YA
PUB DATE: January 27th 2009

This is David’s second novel. He is the author of Suckerpunch.

Isabel is seventeen years old. She still is dealing with her boyfriend’s tragic accident that claimed his life a year ago.

Carlos is also seventeen. He has an obsession with red licorice. Hence the cover of the book. He works at an art museum as a security guard to make some money.

The chapters are told by alternating points of view of Carlos and Isabel. I was a little confused by this at first because the two have no connection to each other until they both meet Vanessa. She is a transfer student who works at the same museum as Carlos.

Isabel and Carlos meet at school when Carlos friend Snake accidently bumps into Vanessa. They agree to go to the school dance that night. While Carlos and Snake wait outside the school for the girls to come. They begin to drink. Snake is starting to get a little drunk by the time they show up. Vanessa and Snake hit it off and they ask to be alone. Carlos and Isabel go into the dance to wait for them. When they realize that they haven’t shown up yet they go outside to look for them. They realize that Snake and Vanessa left. What happens? Where did they go?

I enjoyed the book and I thank HarperCollins teen for sending me this ARC to read. The book is about love, friendship and teens dealing with tough things that life throws at you. I could relate to Isabel because when I was in junior high I had a friend (crush) who was killed by a drunk driver. Even though this happened over 20 years ago you still remember the person.

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Not Your Usual Saturday Night

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This is not how I usually spend my Saturday night. Friday my friend emailed me in a frenzy she had tickets to go and meet Nick Carter from the BackStreet Boys and had no one to go with and asked it I would be interested. I had nothing planned so I figured why not.

Getting there was a disaster. The directions I got online were wrong. We got lost. With several calls to the guy who organized the event and then a stop at a depanneur. (That is a corner store in english)We finally got the right directions.

Dinner was delicious. Then the DJ announced that we would be able to get pictures with him. The only catch was it was by table so their was 2 other girls in the picture but I cropped them out only because I don’t know them. This is the picture.

Left to Right is Nick, Celia (my friend)and Moi!
To date this is only 4th singer I have ever met. Plus several authors. I think I have met more authors then singers.

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