Leaves danced sadly with the wind, waving goodbye.

Letter in Cardboard Boxes by Abby Slovin

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This book was one of the best books I've read so far this year! Even though it took me awhile to finish reading this book I loved it! 

Letters in Cardboard Boxes is about a woman, Parker and her grandmother Dotty and their letters they sent to each other of their imaginary trips across the world while Parker's parents were traveling across the world. It was a way for both Parker and Dotty to communicate. After receiving some bad news about her grandmother's health, she rediscovers the letters between her and Dotty, along with some of her family's untold stories. She also finds letters that portrays her grandmother's youth a lot different from the woman who had raised her. Along with reading the letters from her grandmother, we're experiencing what Parker is as she learns how to cope with life's unexpected twist and turns.

There wasn't a time where I got bored and had to put it down. I didn't come across any parts of the book where I felt like there needed to be more added on or there was too much information. It really flowed very easily from beginning to the end. The way this book ended is kinda in a leeway. It ended the way that a book should normally end but it also gives way that there's going to be more to this story and I know that there's always more to a story like this. It won't matter if she writes a book to finish the rest of the story (which I can't wait to read if that happens) or not. It was definitely a book that everyone should read!

ex·pa·tri·ate - A very lucky person living in a foreign land.

Single in the City by Michele Gorman was without a doubt the best book ever! I rarely read books that are based in other countries (mostly because not a lot of authors write books that are mainly based in another country). Reading this book just made me want to go to London even more! I've always wanted to go to London to see all of what's there and reading this book kinda gave me a glimpse of what London has to hold.

Single in the City is about a 26 year old American who flies to London on the spur of the moment. She has no job, no friends and no clue on how to "build" her dream life. While in search of new love, new life and a sense of herself, she meets new roommates (who are from Australia) and new friends who all help her as she goes on the search for Mr. Right.

Things I loved about this book, what's not to love? I loved it all! It was funny and it was fast-paced. Reading this book, I could actually put myself in Hannah's place and see it all in my mind as if I was living that life. I was reading this late last night and everyone was asleep and I had to hold my laugher in because I didn't want to wake anyone up. There wasn't any thing that was bad about this book. I didn't get confused at any parts throughout the book or have to go back and reread something because it didn't make sense or anything. The book just flowed along and there wasn't a single boring part in this book!

Pennies from Heaven

This book was absolutely amazing!! I could not put it down at all!! It was free on Barnes and Noble so I figured I'd download it and see if it's any good and it is!! It's one of those must read books! I just checked on the amazon site and the book is for free for the kindle so if you have an iPhone or a iPod or any of those smartphones, go here to download it!! :)

Fools Rush In is about an almost 30 woman, Bella Rossi, who takes over her family wedding planning business. Bella lives in Texas with her parents, her aunt Rosa (mom's side) and Uncle Laz (dad's side) along with her younger sister Sophia. She also has three older brothers, one is married the other two aren't. (just a side note, they're all Italian). Bella had booked a "Boot Scoot'n" wedding and she was in need of a DJ that knows country music and her family only listens to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. So she's looking for a DJ and through a misunderstanding she gets the DJ, who also happens to be the man of her dreams, and that's when things just kinda started falling into place. Throughout the whole book there were some really funny parts that just made me laugh out loud and all of these mishaps that just made me cringe a little.

There were no parts in this entire book that I didn't like. There wasn't parts where I'd get bored and just not wanted to read the book. The book was fast paced and everything just flowed from one thing to another without making anything seem confusing. I loved how it was a mix of love and comedy. One thing for sure is that I'll be buying the other two books in the series! 

Olly-olly-oxen-free

This book was absolutely amazing! I started reading this about 9 last night and didn't finish it until about 12 or 1 this morning. That's how good it was! That's why this book is A Must Read! There are not a lot of books that will take me almost 4 hours to read from start to finish. This book was truly a life changing book. It made me see things from a different view. 

Basically the book is about a girl, Hannah Baker who had committed suicide but before doing that, she made tapes. Tapes with 13 reasons why she killed herself. It started in her freshmen year all the way up to the day she died. There was seven tapes, each side with one story (a reason). Which means there was 13 different people that these tapes had to go to so they can learn why they were responsible for her death. This is from both Hannah and Clay's point of view. As Clay was listening to the tapes, he went around their small town. Following along with the stories that Hannah was telling. At each place he discovered new secrets about Hannah and about everybody else that was on those tapes. What Clay had discovered changed his life (and in a way changed mine).

** Some Links **
Listen to the Tapes
13 Reasons Why website

Deep in the Arms of Prince Valium

A Paramedic’s Story Review

A Paramedic's Story by Steven "Kelly" Grayson was really good! I got it for free on my nook from Barnes&Nobles so I figure it's free so I'll go ahead and read it. It was really really good! It's different from what I normally read but it was better than I expected. The book is a true story. It has to do with Kelly Grayson and his life as a Paramedic. Each chapter was a different story of someone dying, involved in a wreak and so many more, my favorite part about each chapter is the titles - each title was funny and a few didn't make sense at first but once you read the chapter, you'll get it. It was based in Louisiana which is where I'm living at right now and that was probably one of the reason why I read it. The book had some funny moments and a few sad moments. I can't really tell you much because anything I say about this book, will pretty much spoil it! So I'll post the passage from Amazon.com of the product description of the book. 

"Welcome to the life-and-death world of an EMT—sometimes bloody, sometimes even funny, but always compelling.

When someone dials 911, Emergency Medical Technician Kelly Grayson is there—to restart the heart that has stopped beating, deal with dangerously high blood alcohol levels, or pull a body from a mangled car wreck. As an EMT, Grayson sees people at their best and worst, in situations that can be gruesome, moving, and heart-breaking. Regardless of the emergency, Grayson is the first line of defense, picking up the pieces and saving lives—or, sadly, watching them slip away.

A Paramedic's Story is bursting with stories that run the gamut from lighthearted to heart-wrenching. With his brutally candid style, Grayson gives readers his special insight into the human condition, and shows us what it feels like to hold lives in his hands every day.".

This is No Dream...

Ghost Walk Review

Ghost Walk by Heather Graham was a great book! I mean it was sooo good that when I was at CVS today looking for some batteries that I stopped by the books and I saw a book by Heather Graham that I just had to buy it! The book was about this woman, Nikki who's a manager of a New Orleans haunter tour company and in the middle of the night, she is awoken by her friend, Andy who was begging for help. The next day, Nikki finds out that her friend was killed at the same time that her friend was in her room. No one believes her except for one person and that is Brent, a paranormal investigator. The book is about Ghosts. That is not a spoiler, I mean the title of the book "Ghost Walk" is the spoiler. Anyway, Andy works with Nikki at the haunted tour and was killed by an overdosed of some type of drug ( I don't believe what kind of drug killed was mentioned in the book ) and Nikki is the only person that believes that someone had killed her and that it wasn't an accidental death. Brent, later comes back home to his hometown New Orleans to investigate the death of an FBI agent who was killed the same way that Andy was killed and believes that they are connected to each other somehow. Throughout the book, there was three main ghosts in the book and the only people that could see them was Nikki and Brent. With the help of the ghosts Brent is able to assist the police officers solve the murders of Andy and the agent. The book was good, loved how she put some of the New Orleans history in it( Even though I live in Louisiana, I cannot tell you if the history that been mentioned in the book is true or not ). She defiantly knew how to catch a person's attention and I didn't lose interest at all throughout the book. 

she'll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart...

Happy Ever After Review

 So last night I finished Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts! I loved it!! It is book four of the Bride Quartet series and I've already read the other three books but I'll give you an overview of all four books then my review of this book. All four books is about these four best friends who turned their childhood game Wedding Day into their dream jobs. The first book was about Mac who is the photographer of The Vows. The second one is about Emma who is the florist of The Vows and the third one is about Laurel who is the baker. This book is about Parker, the face of the Vows, she is the one who takes care of the bride and their demanding needs. She basically the wedding planner. And each book is all about how they met their future soulmate but also the first three would give like a foreplay of what to expect in the next book.

Now onto to this book! I loved how this book started off, the prologue of the book was about how the Vows became a reality for the best friends. Parker was the one who had the whole plan laid out and was ready to talk her friends into making their childhood game the real thing. We all pretty much know that The Vows did happen (that is if you'd read the first three books you would know that lol) but we didn't know how it became. Then it goes into the first chapter which gives us an idea of what a wedding planner does. A bride calls her early in the morning, I believed it said that it was 5 something am. which shows us that wedding planners pretty much work 24/7 and in this book Parker is working 24/7! She not only takes care of the planning part of the wedding, she basically help the bride or groom if they have any problems and she also takes care of her friends, well they all take care of each other. If one is mad or sad the others are going to know about it and they're going to do something about it. anyway, she meets Malcolm in the last book and it started off with Parker trying to piss her older brother off and she kisses Malcolm. Of course at the time she only did it to make her brother mad but there was a spark between them when they kissed. But they didn't explore that spark until this book. Malcolm is a mechanic and a close friend of her brother. All through the book Malcolm is making the first move by catching her off guard by kissing her and she keeps pushing him away until she starts spending time with him and talking with him and with him always being around, helping with any wedding events or just to see her, she starts to open up and of course we all know what's going to happen, they end up being together. Of course not every relationship goes without problems, ( while I'm not going to state the problems they did have some fights about some things ) but they were able to fix the problems. That is all I'm going to say about this book except for one little spoiler for those who haven't read the book, only Mac's wedding happened in this book which was awesome but I would have loved for another book just to finish up the whole series to have the other three's weddings. Overall I loved this book and its hard to not hate this book, I mean it's every girl's dream to get married and to read a book about weddings and the happiness in the book is just a perfect book to read!