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Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line

Nancy Drew, She Ain't Authors: Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham SPOILER ALERT: This book is set after the events in the Veronica Mars movie and contains some spoilers about what Veronica’s been up to since the show ended. While I hesitate to describe myself as a “Marshmallow” in any respect other than my physique, I’ll cop to being a big fan of the Veronica Mars TV show. I own the DVD box sets; I went to see the movie when it came out; and OF COURSE I was going to read the novelization as soon as I could get my [...]

Stephanie Perry2016-12-31T17:55:18-07:00May 2nd, 2014|Tags: book reviews, kristen bell, reviews, veronica mars|

Russian Winter

Amber Allure Author: Daphne Kalotay You guys know I’m a sucker for a book about jewels. Throw in an exotic WWII-era Russian setting, beautiful ballerinas, and a genealogical mystery, and who could resist? Slowly and deliberately offering up its long-buried secrets (and a bit of romance), Russian Winter is almost as tantalizing as the real-life historical mystery of the Amber Room. Old and terminally ill, Nina Revskaya, a former star of the Bolshoi Ballet who escaped Russia for the U.S. decades ago, is auctioning off her legendary jewelry collection in order to pay for her medical care and to begin [...]

Stephanie Perry2016-12-31T17:55:25-07:00April 4th, 2014|Tags: book reviews, reviews|

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

Scurvaceous Sailors and a Medical Mystery Author: Stephen Bown I love everything about independent bookstore book clubs except attending them. I’ll follow the monthly selections, dutifully check them out from the library and read along, finish the book in time for the meeting… and then not go. I like to think of it as my own personal at-home book club, where I can hog all the snacks and I don’t have to wear pants. Anyway, that’s how I ended up reading Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail, [...]

Stephanie Perry2023-07-11T01:47:29-07:00March 4th, 2014|Tags: book reviews, reviews, scurvy|