Stacking the Shelves: 3/18-3/31

Received in April's Fresh Fiction Box Not to Miss:

Silver Fox by Misha Elliot

The Perfect Duchess by Erica Taylor

Bride by Mistake by Nicole Helm

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman

The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn

Night of the Living Dummy

Title: Night of the Living Dummy
Author: R. L. Stein
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781467696814

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Having read one of the sequels, I was highly confused throughout this whole story, but I cannot say more without giving the ending away.  

Rating: 3/5

The Great Alone

Title: The Great Alone
Author:  Kristin Hannah
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Very intense, moving coming-of-age story that is often a tearjerker.

Rating: 4/5

Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time!

Title: Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time!
Author:  Alex Milway
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 9780763681869

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Crazy, colorful tale that elementary-schoolers will enjoy reading on their own.

Rating: 3/5

The Pink Suit

Title: The Pink Suit
Author:  Nicole Mary Kelby
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316235655

Why Read?: First Reads

Thoughts: The prologue was intriguing, the the novel was just average historical fiction.

Rating: 3/5

Stacking the Shelves: 3/11-3/17

For possible review (on Bookloons):

The Window by Amelia Brunskill

Stacking the Shelves: 3/4-3/10

Received in February's Scriptd:

You Got Older by Clare Barron

Lydia by Octavio Solis

Struck

Title: Struck
Author:  Clarissa Johal
Publisher: Musa
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: More horror than paranormal romance, this was a real page-turner.

Rating: 4/5

The Lightning Thief

Title: The Lightning Thief
Author:  Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library
ISBN:9780307245304

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Good mix of magical adventure and Greek mythology.  I had fun listening, and even learned a few things.

Rating: 4/5

Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure

Title: Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure
Author:  A. L. Kennedy
Publisher: Kane Miller
ISBN:978-1-61067-740-0

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Good reluctant reader book, but some of the humor is too Scottish and I still have no clue whose uncle Shawn is.

Rating: 3/5

The Silence of Our Friends

Title: The Silence of Our Friends
Author:  Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, & Nate Powell
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 9781596436183

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Great semi-autobiographical graphic novel about life in Texas during the Civil Rights movement.

Rating: 4/5

Blankets

Title: Blankets
Author:  Craig Thompson
Publisher: Top Shelf
ISBN: 9781891830433

Why Read?: For Fun

Thoughts: Very long coming-of-age graphic novel, might even be a memoir (really can't tell).  It is obvious Thompson's artwork was influenced by Jules Feiffer, and that made it a hard read.

Rating: 2/5

Stacking the Shelves: 2/25-3/3

For possible review (on Bookloons):

The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

LibraryThing Early Review:

The Lumberjack by Erik Martin Willen

Under a Veil of Gods by R. Anthony Giamusso

Received in March's Fresh Fiction Box Not to Miss:

Stone Cold by Jean Connolly

The Farrier's Daughter by Leigh Ann Edwards

Zero Hour by Megan Erickson

A Duke in the Night by Kelly Bowen

More to Love by Alison Bliss

Enigma by Catherine Coulter