Karl Drinkwater - If That Looking Glass Gets Broken

37. If That Looking Glass Gets Broken by Karl Drinkwater (2014)
Length: 5 pages
Genre: Short Story
Started/Finished: 10 July 2014
Where did it come from? From Smashwords
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 18 February 2014
Why do I have it? I like short stories and Karl Drinkwater is a new author for me.

The old woman's marriage to her husband hadn't necessarily always been the best, she reflected. They had weathered their share of storms, to be sure, but now both husband and wife were content to view their tribulations as tempests in a teapot. Besides, the old woman thought fondly, her husband was a grumpy old sourpuss at times, but she loved him nonetheless.

And, as always, there was her son to think of. Such a polite, well-behaved, handsome, bright boy! She had considered him the "best of all her sons" - secretly, of course - it would never do for her husband to discover she was harboring favorites, now would it? He would be upset with her.

However, enough day-dreaming. Her son needed to be fed. Her husband was right: soup was so nourishing; and her son was such a good boy to let his mother feed him.

I read this story in one night. This was certainly a very suspenseful story, but the ending was much more shocking than I expected. As this was such a short story, I appreciated the suspenseful build-up and that is what made the ending all the more shocking to me.

This was the first story by Karl Drinkwater that I've read, so I'm not sure if this is his typical writing style, however this first story earned a B+! from me. I will certainly be keeping my eyes open for more from Karl Drinkwater in the future.

B+! - (85-89%)

May you read well and often

Blog Tour For Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif From August 4, 2014 to August 29, 2014 - Come Join Us!

Hello Everyone! I am extremely happy to announce that Cheryl Kaye Tardif will be touring the blogosphere to promote her Paranormal Mystery Divine Sanctuary - Book 3 in her Divine Trilogy. This virtual book tour is being hosted by Pump up Your Book and will last from August 4, to August 29, 2014!

Divine Sanctuary Blog Tour Information:

Meet Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an award-winning, international bestselling Canadian suspense author. Her novels include Divine Sanctuary, Submerged, Divine Justice, Children of the Fog, The River, Divine Intervention, and Whale Song, which New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice calls “a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart…a beautiful, haunting novel.”

She is now working on her next thriller.

Cheryl also enjoys writing short stories inspired mainly by her author idol Stephen King, and this has resulted in Skeletons in the Closet and Other Creepy Stories (collection of shorts) and Remote Control (novelette eBook). In 2010 Cheryl detoured into the romance genre with her contemporary romantic suspense debut, Lancelot’s Lady, written under the pen name of Cherish D’Angelo.

Booklist raves, “Tardif, already a big hit in Canada…a name to reckon with south of the border.”

Connect and Socialize with Cheryl!

Website * Facebook * Twitter * Goodreads * Blog 

About Divine Sanctuary:

 

There’s no place like home…

In the Divine Trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC.

Something insidious lurks behind the safe haven of Sanctuary’s wrought iron gates. Led by the charismatic Father Jeremiah, the cult’s idyllic lifestyle seems perfect on the outside. But a lethal hunter is on the prowl, and in a carefully executed game of cat and mouse, the body count rises.

Along with Victim Empath Natassia Prushenko, Psychometric Empath Ben Roberts and Special Consultant Brandon Walsh, Jasi follows three trails of clues that lead to one terrifying conclusion: home is not always the safest place on earth.

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Watch the Book Trailer on YouTube and Read the First Chapter! 

Divine Sanctuary Book Publicity Tour Schedule:

  

Monday, August 4 - Interview at Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Featured at Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, August 6 - Guest Blogging at To Read or Not to Read

Wednesday, August 6 - Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Thursday, August 7 - Interview at Cheryl’s Book Nook

Monday, August 11 - Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Tuesday, August 12 - Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Monday, August 18 - Interview at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, August 19 - Book Review at My Life, Loves and Passions

Tuesday, August 19 - Guest Blogging at Bookingly Yours

Tuesday, August 19 - Book Review and Guest Blogging at My Book Addiction and More

Thursday, August 21 - Book Featured at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense

Thursday, August 21 - Book Featured at Sapphyria’s Book Reviews

Monday, August 25 - Interview at As the Pages Turn

Tuesday, August 26 - Book Featured at Booklover Sue

Wednesday, August 27 - Book Review at Emeraldfire’s Bookmark

Thursday, August 28 - Book Review at Becky on Books

Friday, August 29 - Book Review at Pink Fluffy Hearts Diary

May you read well and often

Blog Tour For Rowena and the Viking Warlord by Melodie Campbell From August 4, 2014 to August 29, 2014 - Come Join Us!

Hello Everyone! I am extremely happy to announce that Melodie Campbell will be touring the blogosphere to promote her Paranormal Romance Rowena and the Viking Warlord - Book 3 in her Land's End Series. This virtual book tour is being hosted by Pump up Your Book and will last from August 4, to August 29, 2014!

Rowena and the Viking Warlord Blog Tour Information:

Meet Melodie Campbell 

Billed as Canada’s “Queen of Comedy” by the Toronto Sun (Jan. 5, 2014), Melodie Campbell achieved a personal best when Library Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich. Winner of nine awards, including the 2014 Derringer (US) and the 2014 Arthur Ellis (Canada) for The Goddaughter’s Revenge (Orca Books), Melodie has over 200 publications, including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories, and seven novels.

Melodie got her start writing stand-up.  In 1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference. Her fiction has been described by industry reviewers as “hilarious” and “laugh-out-loud funny.”
Melodie has a commerce degree from Queen’s University, but it didn’t take well.  She has been a bank manager, college instructor, marketing director, comedy writer and possibly the worst runway model ever.  These days, Melodie is the Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada.
Her latest book is the paranormal romance time travel, Rowena and the Viking Warlord.

Connect and Socialize with Melodie!

Website * Facebook * Twitter 

About Rowena and the Viking Warlord:

He was her enemy and her lover…

As Cedric fights battles down south, Rowena unwittingly rides into an enemy war camp and is taken prisoner by her old friend Lars, who is not what he seems.

Yet Rowena is not helpless. After all, she is a hereditary half-witch with a whole lot of magic in her.  Too bad she doesn’t know how to use it. Escaping from the camp, she continues to botch up spell after spell. Soon Kendra joins her on the trek back to Huel, along with the latest magical mistake, a flame-burping dragon called Cinders.

When war comes to Land’s End, it brings the one man who threatens to conquer everything in Huel, including Rowena’s heart. Now she has to make the biggest decision of her life. Will she return through the wall to safety in Arizona? Or will she stay in Land’s End for good, and fight to save her people from the Viking Warlord?

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Rowena and the Viking Warlord Book Publicity Tour Schedule:

Monday, August 4 - First Chapter Reveal at The Literary Nook

Wednesday, August 6 - Book Featured at Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews

Thursday, August 7 - Book Review at My Book Addiction and More

Monday, August 11 - Guest Blogging at ARe Cafe

Tuesday, August 12 - Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, August 13 - Interview at Examiner

Thursday, August 14 - Interview at As the Page Turns

Monday, August 18 - First Chapter Reveal at Read My First Chapter

Tuesday, August 19 - Interview at Deal Sharing Aunt

Wednesday, August 20 - Book Review at Written Love

Thursday, August 21 - Interview at The Writer’s Life

Monday, August 25 - Interview at Beyond the Books

Monday, August 25 - Book Review at Emeraldfire’s Bookmark

Tuesday, August 26 - Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Wednesday, August 27 - Interview at I’m Shelf-ish

Thursday, August 28 - Interview at Review From Here

Friday, August 29 - Book Review at My Life, Loves and Passion

May you read well and often

Blog Tour For Tortured Souls by Kimber Leigh Wheaton From August 4, 2014 to August 22, 2014 - Come Join Us!

Hello Everyone! I am extremely happy to announce that Kimber Leigh Wheaton will be touring the blogosphere to promote her young adult Paranormal Romance Tortured Souls - Book 1 in her Orion Circle Series. This virtual book tour is being hosted by the author herself and will last from August 4, to August 22, 2014!

Ms. Wheaton is also doing two awesome giveaways - she is giving away an ebook copy of Tortured Souls - available either in Mobi, epub or pdf version for the winners. She is also giving a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky host at the end of her Blog Tour. Be sure to fill out the Rafflecopter form below, and I wish you all the very best of good luck in taking part!

Tortured Souls Blog Tour Information:

Meet Kimber Leigh Wheaton

Kimber Leigh Wheaton is a bestselling YA/NA author with a soft spot for sweet romance. She is married to her soul mate, has a teenage son, and shares her home with three dogs, four cats, and lots of dragons. No, she doesn’t live on a farm, she just loves animals. Kimber Leigh is addicted to romance, videogames, superheroes, villains, and chocolate - not necessarily in that order. (If she has to choose, she’ll take a chocolate covered superhero!) She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas but has been somewhat a rolling stone in life, having resided in several different cities and states.

Connect and Socialize with Kimber Leigh!

Website * Twitter * Goodreads * Facebook * Young Adult Website * 'Once Upon a YA Book' on Facebook

 About Tortured Souls:

Sometimes Rest in Peace isn't an Option...

Kacie Ramsey sees ghosts—and it's ruining her life. Her mother left, her father blames her, and no matter how hard she tries, she can't keep the ghosts away. Now a new power has emerged. Nightly visions of grisly murders and a relentless predator draw her to the brink of insanity.

When the phantom appears at a party, Kacie's longtime crush, Logan, saves her. He invites her to join the Orion Circle, a group of supernatural hunters with chapters in schools all over the country. Through the Circle, Kacie learns to embrace her spiritual powers, and for the first time in her life she feels in control rather than a victim.

But the Foxblood Demon will not give up so easily. A demented serial killer in life who trapped the souls of the thirteen children he murdered, imprisoning them within the walls of his mansion. Now in death, he plots his return while drawing power from the pure souls of the children. He recognizes something in Kacie he's never seen before—a medium powerful enough to provide a vessel for his tainted soul.

Kacie can't ignore the tortured souls of the children crying out to her every night. With Logan at her side, she will fight the Foxblood Demon. But can they banish this powerful phantom, or will Kacie lose not only her body, but her eternal soul to the monster.

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Tortured Souls Book Publicity Tour Schedule:

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10, Playlist at Shattering Words

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at For the Love of Books

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Bound 2 Escape

Monday, August 4 - Book Review at Itching For Books

Monday, August 4 - Character Bios at Books Authors Blogs

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Guest Post at Captivated Reading

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Guest Post at A Book Lover's Retreat

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Interview, Playlist at Coffee, Books and Art

Monday, August 4 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Shooting Stars Reviews

Monday, August 4 - Book Review at V's Reads

Tuesday, August 5 - Guest Post, Playlist at I am a Reader!

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10 at Becky's Barmy Book Blog

Tuesday, August 5 - Character Bios at Jess Time to Read

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Playlist at Pink Fluffy Hearts

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios at Loves All Things Books

Tuesday, August 5 - Book Review, Playlist at Marked by Books

Wednesday, August 6 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Girls With Books

Wednesday, August 6 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10 at Fantasy Book Chick
Wednesday, August 6 - Book Review at Abookdoration

Wednesday, August 6 - Character Bios, Character Interview at Christine Amsden

Wednesday, August 6 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Imagine a World

Wednesday, August 6 - Guest Post, Top 10, Playlist at Gimme the Scoop Reviews
Thursday, August 7 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios at Write Away Bliss
Thursday, August 7 - Book Review, Playlist at The Story Goes...
Thursday, August 7 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Bookcrastinators in Wonderland
Thursday, August 7 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Bookworm For Kids
Thursday, August 7 - Author Interview at We do Write
Thursday, August 7 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Playlist at Tich Brewster
Thursday, August 7 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10 at Fundinmental
Friday, August 8 - Character Interview at Strands of Thought
Friday, August 8 - Book Review, Character Interview, Playlist at Chelsea's Reading Adventures
Friday, August 8 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Guest Post at Team Nerd Reviews
Friday, August 8 - Book Review, Author Interview at The Bookworm Corner
Friday, August 8 - Book Review, Top 10 at Book Briefs
Friday, August 8 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at 6 Feet Under Books
Friday, August 8 - Book Review at The Canon
Saturday, August 9 - Character Interview, Character Top 10 at Fang-Tastic Books
Saturday, August 9 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Part of That World
Sunday, August 10 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Book Hostage
Monday, August 11 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Playlist at Paranormal Romance Fans For Life
Monday, August 11 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Guest Post at The Book Bag
Monday, August 11 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at The Cover Contessa
Monday, August 11 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10, Playlist at Falling For YA
Monday, August 11 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10 at Whatever You Can Still Betray

Tuesday, August 12 - Guest Post at From the Shadows

Tuesday, August 12 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Sasha Hibbs

Tuesday, August 12 - Book Review at The Rest is Still Unwritten

Tuesday, August 12 - Book Review at Am a Book Lover Blogger

Tuesday, August 12 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at United Indie Book Blog

Wednesday, August 13 - Promotional TBD at The Rest is Still Unwritten

Wednesday, August 13 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at My Midnight Fantasies

Wednesday, August 13 - Guest Post at Urban Fantasy Investigations
Wednesday, August 13 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Guest Post, Top 10 at Blissful Book Reviews
Thursday, August 14 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios at Sunshine Book Promotions
Thursday, August 14 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios at Book Talk Reviews
Thursday, August 14 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Mom With a Kindle
Thursday, August 14 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Author/Character Interview at Sweets Books
Friday, August 15 - Book Review at Stressed Rach
Friday, August 15 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Bookworm Lisa
Friday, August 15 - Book Review, Character Interview at A Thousand Words, a Million Books
Friday, August 15 - Book Review at Worth Reading It?
Saturday, August 16 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Top 10 at Mad Hatter Reads
Monday, August 18 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Guest Post at Jillian's Books
Monday, August 18 - Book Review at The Bookish Outsider
Monday, August 18 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios at Sapphyria's Book Reviews
Monday, August 18 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Emeraldfire's Bookmark
Monday, August 18 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at I Read it and Wept
Tuesday, August 19 - Book Review, Character Bios at Twin Spin
Tuesday, August 19 - Book Review, Playlist at Books and Books
Tuesday, August 19 - Book Review at Megan Likes Books
Tuesday, August 19 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios, Guest Post at NaYa Books and More
Wednesday, August 20 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Character Bios, Guest Post at Booky Ramblings of a Neurotic Mom
Wednesday, August 20 - Book Review at Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock
Wednesday, August 20 - Book Review, Playlist at Reviews and Rambles
Wednesday, August 20 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Deal Sharing Aunt
Wednesday, August 20 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Author Interview at Enchanted by YA
Thursday, August 21 - Book Review at The Phantom Paragrapher
Thursday, August 21 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt at Doodles, Doodles Everywhere
Thursday, August 21 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review at Ali's Books
Thursday, August 21 - Book Review, Character Bios, Playlist at Fictional Reality
Thursday, August 21 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Playlist at Endless Reading Blog
Thursday, August 21 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Playlist at Simplistic Reviews
Friday, August 22 - Character Bios at Chosen by You Book Club
Friday, August 22 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Character Bios at Goth Girl Gabs
Friday, August 22 - Book Review at Ohana Reads
Friday, August 22 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Playlist at Amethyst Daydreams
Friday, August 22 - Book Review at Musings of Immortals

Friday, August 22 - Book Review, Author Interview at A Leisure Moment

Friday, August 22 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Author Interview at Nay's Pink Bookshelf

Friday, August 22 - Book Spotlight/Excerpt, Book Review, Guest Post at Girl With Pen

May you read well and often

Blog Tour For The Donor Part Two by Nikki Rae From August 4, 2014 to August 25, 2014 - Come Join Us!

Hello Everyone! I am extremely happy to announce that Nikki Rae will be touring the blogosphere to promote the second part of her horror novella The Donor. This virtual book tour is being hosted by the author herself and will last from August 4, to August 25, 2014!

Ms. Rae is also doing an awesome giveaway - she is giving away an ebook of The Donor Part One (Just a friendly reminder: this is a serial novella told in parts. Each part is rather short, i. e. 20-30 pages in Word, but all three add up to a novella length) and a $10 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky winner at the end of her Blog Tour. Be sure to fill out the Rafflecopter form below, and I wish you all the very best of good luck in taking part!

The Donor Part Two Blog Tour Information:

Meet Nikki Rae

Nikki Rae is a writer who lives in New Jersey. As an independent author, she has appeared numerously on Amazon Best Seller lists and she concentrates on making her imaginary characters as real as possible. Nikki writes mainly dark, scary, romantic tales, but she’ll try anything once. When she is not writing, reading, or thinking, you can find her spending time with animals, drawing in a quiet corner, or studying people. Closely.

Connect and Socialize with Nikki!

Goodreads * Amazon * Facebook * Twitter

About The Donor Part Two:

When Casey joined MyTrueMatch.com, she never imagined she would meet a man who not only helps her pay the bills, but has been nothing but a gentleman.

As the nose bleeds make way for worse symptoms, Casey can’t help the feelings she has for Jonah, despite how he may never return them. And he’s been keeping things from her. Big things. How does he make his money, and who is that girl in the picture? With the clock ticking, can she find the answers she’s looking for?

Blog Tour Giveaway of The Donor Part Two and a $10 Amazon Gift Card Ends August 25, 2014.

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The Donor Part Two Book Publicity Tour Schedule:

Monday, August 4: Maureen's Books

Sunday, August 10: Emeraldfire's Bookmark
Sunday, August 10: Maureen's Books

Saturday, August 16: Lost in a Good Book

Sunday, August 17: All in One Place
Sunday, August 17: Kayla's Place

Wednesday, August 20: The Bookie Monster

Thursday, August 21: What's Beyond Forks?

Friday, August 22: (Release Day Blitz!!!): ALL THE BLOGS

Sunday, August 24: Pure Jonel

May you read well and often

Introducing Four Spooky Short Stories by Kathryn Meyer Griffith!

Hello everyone! So, Amazon will host a free download for Kathryn Meyer Griffith's Four Spooky Short Stories from Friday, August 1, 2014 to Tuesday, August 5, 2014! I had the pleasure of reading all four spooky stories by Kathryn Meyer Griffith - separately, of course - over three days in January of 2013! Here are my reviews of Ghost Brother, The Banshee and the Witch, Too Close to the Edge and Running With the Train. Well, now is your chance to own all four stories together in one volume - I say go for it! :)

Meet Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Kathryn Meyer Griffith is a wife of almost 35 years (husband, Russell), mother (one son, James) and grandmother (two grandchildren, Caitlyn and Joshua). She was a graphic designer in the corporate world for 23 years; and has published with Dorchester, Kensington, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Amazon Kindle Direct, Damnation Books and Eternal Press, and Amazon Publishing. Six years ago Kathryn crossed over into e-books as well as paperbacks and now all her old/new books are in ebooks...and soon to be in Audio Books from ACX.

She loves cats and nature, classic rock and country music (her brother, J. S. Meyer www.jsmeyermusic.com, is a singer/songwriter and does the songs for all her self-made book trailers that are on her websites). Kathryn loves to interact with her readers, so visit her at either of the following websites: www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith, www.bebo.com/kathrynmeyerG or www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffith to see all of her book covers and trailers.

Four Spooky Short Stories by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (2013)

Length: 103 pages

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Four Spooky Short Stories Blurb:

Four contemporary spooky short stories:

Ghost Brother…

So what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven, or hell? Or do you go to a special place fashioned just for you based on the life you’d lived in the real world? Based on how you treated people? What you did to them?

And do ghosts exist? Do they roam the earth and plague the living, persuade them to do things they shouldn’t do?

Two brothers and their tale follow; their journey through life and death.

Do you believe in ghosts? Some do.

Running with the Train…
Sarah has always been lonely. Searching for a love she’s begun to believe will never come. Her family and friends depend, need her…but they can’t give her what she wants. True, eternal love. Like the wolves have.

So she goes on an adventure of a lifetime to the Grand Canyon; rides the train from Williams to the South Rim and sees these huge wolves running alongside in the evening twilight; scurrying unbelievably below on the Canyon’s ledges among the trees. She’s told there are no wolves but she hears their haunting cries. No one else sees or hears them. Just her.

Has her loneliness made her crazy?

The Banshee and the Witch…
What would you do to live forever, stay young forever? To find true love again?

And if you were a white witch with the magical powers to make it happen…and the secret of how to do it, would you?

So when the banshee comes calling for you one rainy dark night you’ll do what you have to do to get what you desire the most. More time.

Too Close to the Edge…
Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister and brother-in-law to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there, couldn’t bear to get too close to the edge. She watched people balancing on one foot, acting foolish, taking photos, oblivious of the death waiting below them. It scared her.

Especially when a woman relates a story of a small child that fell into the Canyon the day before. Over the edge.

Then she sees a young girl go over the rim and no one will believe her.

For there was no child that had died - that day anyway.

Was she seeing things that weren’t there, or was there another explanation?

May you read well and often

Reading Wrap-up For June at Emeraldfire's Bookmark

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Emeraldfire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog.

Anyway, I started out June with about two hundred unread books lying around the house and ended the month with...umm...uncountable amounts of books unread. All of the books that I acquired this month came from authors, Bookmooch and Amazon.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Education of George Washington: How a Forgotten Book Shaped the Character of a Hero by Austin Washington
- War of the Gods by Justine, Juan and Marco Borrego
- Schism: The Battle For Darracia by Michael Phillip Cash
- Mind Games by Christine Amsden

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :))
- Mortom by Erik Therme
- Guardians Inc.: Thundersword by Julian Rosado-Machain
- Chasers by H. W. Vivian
- Traceless by Joanne Clancy
- The Dancing Boy by Michael Matson
- The Donor by Nikki Rae
- Tortured Souls by Kimber Leigh Wheaton
- Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
- Rowena and the Viking Warlord by Melodie Campbell
- What it Was Like by Peter Seth
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
- The Unholy by Paul DeBlassie III
- Me, on the Floor Bleeding by Jenny Jagerfeld

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman
- Pixie Tricks: The Wicked Wizard by Tracey West
- War of the Gods by Justine, Juan and Marco Borrego
- The Education of George Washington: How a Forgotten Book Shaped the Character of a Hero by Austin Washington

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me, considering. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 4

Pages Read: 874

Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was June. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

May you read well and often