Tag: lois duncan

Hardest Vintage Books to Track Down

Posted December 1, 2021 by Brin in Memes, Top 5 Wednesday / 0 Comments
Hardest Vintage Books to Track Down

Top 5 Wednesday was originally created by Lainey @ GingerReadsLainey – you can join the Goodreads group HERE Top 5 Hardest Vintage Books to Track Down This week’s prompt is a freebie so I have decided to post about one of my favourite hobbies of recent years – vintage book collecting! I have spent the last eight or so years tracking down some of my favourite vintage books. It started with […]

Books From My Teen Years I’d Love To Revisit

Posted July 10, 2018 by Brin in Memes, Top Ten Tuesday / 6 Comments
Books From My Teen Years I’d Love To Revisit

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme previously hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme is top ten: Books From My Teen Years That I Would Love To Revisit This week’s topic is actually best books read in 2018 but I already posted a similar topic last week so I’m gonna go with books from […]

Retro Reads: Lois Duncan

Posted November 13, 2017 by Brin in 80s & 90s Young Adult Rewind, Retro Reads / 2 Comments
Retro Reads: Lois Duncan

Lois Duncan: Teen Thriller Writer Extraordinaire Lois Duncan was the writer of over a dozen teen thrillers that I adored reading when I was growing up. A writer whose life was marred by tragedy when, in a strange parallel to her own writing, her daughter Kaitlyn was murdered under mysterious circumstances. After this heart-breaking turn of events, Duncan turned away from writing fiction. She instead put her focus on finding her daughter’s […]

June Bookstagram Challenges: Day 3

Posted June 3, 2017 by Brin in Challenges / 0 Comments
June Bookstagram Challenges: Day 3

June Bookstagram Challenges (and what I got up to today) #bookishthisorthat – hosted by: @darkfaerietales_, @cbookaddiction, @novelheartbeat and @eden.hammond With each daily prompt, you choose which of the two choices you prefer. So, let’s say the choice was between Game of Thrones and the Lord of the Rings, you choose which one is your favourite and create a photo using your choice (and FYI, as much as I love GoT, it would […]

Cover Retrospective: A Series

Posted March 19, 2017 by Brin in Cover Retrospective, Discussion Posts / 2 Comments
Cover Retrospective: A Series

Yikes, I didn’t exactly mean to take over a month-long hiatus from my blog! A combination of being busy at work and having limited internet access is to blame for that but I actually cannot believe it has been THAT long since I last posted. Cover Retrospective This is a post I have been sitting on for a while. I rather liked the idea of looking at book covers (I am very […]