Although Splash Into Summer is officially over, I have another belated post to share with you today. Please welcome author Kate Hinderer to the blog today! If you missed Kate’s guest post with Bonnie, click here to check it out! Hey, I’m author Kate Hinderer and I’m lucky enough to be guest posting for the day ... Read More »
Florence Waverley feels like an outsider amongst her classmates. Although she has been living on Hamilton Island for long enough to have made friends and be recognized, no one really sees her. A class trip to Mermaid’s Reach becomes rather lonely for Florence, who explores on her own and becomes separated from her classmates. When ... Read More »
Bonnie and I had been talking about our desire to read Anna Davies’s Wrecked for months. I debated for weeks whether I wanted to purchase this book in hardcover or for my Kindle; I was waiting to see if I had won any of the many blog giveaways that I had entered, and my deadline (to ... Read More »
I have an AWESOME giveaway for all who have been dying to get their hands on a copy of Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown. My review of Lies Beneath can be read here, and even though I read it before our Splash Into Summer event started, I saved it so I could feature it during our 3-week ... Read More »
2012 is definitely the year of the mermaid, and I’m extremely glad for that! If you’ve been around long enough and seen some of my other mermaid reviews, you know that I really love mermaids: pretty ones, mean ones, side character ones, female ones, male ones…I’m sure you’ve picked up on that, right? I like ... Read More »
I had actually wanted to read Zoe Barton’s Always Neverland in honor of J.M. Barrie’s birthday, but I went a different direction with that blog event. When trying to figure out which mermaid books to read for Splash Into Summer, this book popped up when I did a keyword search on my Kindle to locate all ... Read More »
Helen Dunmore’s Ingo was published several years before the mermaid craze occurred, and it still seems to be one of the lesser known mermaid books. I first noticed it in the middle grade section of Barnes & Noble (because of the diving mermaid on the cover) and desperately wanted to read it. Ingo might still be ... Read More »
I don’t remember exactly how I heard about this book, but I probably saw it on someone’s blog before it was released and added it to my TBR. This was also one of the very first Kindle books that I purchased for the amazing price of $2.99. It was worth every penny, and so many ... Read More »
Jane Yolen is the author I must give the most credit to for instilling in me a deep love for mermaids. Her novel, THE MERMAID’S THREE WISDOMS, is one that stayed me throughout all of my childhood and into my adulthood. When I finally decided I wanted to read it again, I discovered it was ... Read More »
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here! I am SO excited to be co-hosting Splash Into Summer with my Mermaid Soul Sister, Bonnie! I’ve been AFK for the last few days; we (my husband, daughter, and I) drove the 4-6 hour drive to St. George to see my husband’s little brother get married and everything was ... Read More »
