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I have failed every Cannonball Read that I've ever participated in, except my very first one. I am consistent, I'll give myself that much.

Melina's Reviews:

I Read This Book and I Have No Recollection

September 16, 2016 by Melina 3 Comments

Even though I’m trying to catch up on my book reviews, I am trying to not half ass them.  If that means going and reading a summary to remind myself about the book so that I can get in the moment, so be it.  However, I’m not going to do that with this book…and I’ll tell you why.  Stephanie Plum novels were gems…right up until what? Maybe book 8? Then after that, I’d check them out in the library a few years after they came out […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, Tricky Twenty-Two

Melina's CBR8 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, Tricky Twenty-Two ·
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One Has an Answer, the Other Does Not

September 16, 2016 by Melina 3 Comments

So this is what my life has come to. I’ve become the person I never wanted to be.  No, I didn’t kill anyone…but I did read a shit ton of books and never came back to review them. Now it seems almost  a Sisyphean task, but I’m going to see if I can double up my reviews and you can deal with my cheating in silence on the other end of the Internet, ‘mkay? I’m a big fan of Lisa Lutz.  She wrote the Spellman […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult

Melina's CBR8 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: ·
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A Glass Castle is a Perfect Metaphor

May 25, 2016 by Melina 2 Comments

I typically write my reviews in a timely fashion. In fact, I typically have a rule that I can’t start my next book until I write my review. It keeps me honest, up to date and together (because I always want to start the next book).  Well, rules went out the window after reading this book.  I have no idea what it is about it, but I was altered by The Glass Castle.  I didn’t want to write about it, I didn’t want to stop thinking about […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, CBR8, Jeannette Walls, Melina, parenthood, the glass castle

Melina's CBR8 Review No:31 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, CBR8, Jeannette Walls, Melina, parenthood, the glass castle ·
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Dolph Kids 4 life

April 21, 2016 by Melina 6 Comments

  The caption to this picture is pretty much how I felt after reading this book.  After enduring the 2nd book I somehow talked myself immediately into reading the third one.  I was hooked…not because it was good mind you, but because Love, Lattes and Angel promised me voodoo priestesses, reincarnation and the Bermuda Triangle (and delivered on all three I think).  Let me make one thing very clear before I tell you EVERYTHING about this book.  It is pure garbage.  Many times I caught […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: CBR8, dolphboy, dolphgirl, love lattes and angel, Melina, mutant series 3, Sandra Cox

Melina's CBR8 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: CBR8, dolphboy, dolphgirl, love lattes and angel, Melina, mutant series 3, Sandra Cox ·
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I Only Have One More Book Left. Hold Me.

April 19, 2016 by Melina 2 Comments

Today dear friends you’re getting a two-fer…because I don’t know how to break them up.  Last year during CB7 I read the first 6 books in this series and feel deeply, deeply in love with it.  If you don’t remember, or if you don’t read my reviews–in short here’s the basic plot: in a single night most everyone gets attacked by these weird creatures (called ghouls by the survivors) who seem to be half zombie/half vampire.  Neither of those terms get used, but that’s what […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Melina's CBR8 Review No:29 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: ·
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Back Seat Driver

April 4, 2016 by Melina 1 Comment

Happily, I was given an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley for an honest review which was exciting since I’ve been a fan of Lisa Lutz for a long time now. The Spellman Files is a six book series that follows the quirky Spellman family who have no boundaries and run their own investigative business out of their home in San Francisco.  In Heads, You Lose, every other chapter is written either by Lutz or her ex-boyfriend David Hayword and as they write a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: advanced copy, identity, Lisa Lutz, The Passenger

Melina's CBR8 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: advanced copy, identity, Lisa Lutz, The Passenger ·
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