Thank You to My January Visitors – Let’s Spotlight a Few!

As always, thank you so much to all of those who took the time to visit and leave a comment this past January.  As you know, I used to do a blogroll at the end of each month, but let’s be honest, you guys are so amazing and so great that I just couldn’t keep [...]

January Search Terms – What Brought You Here This Time?

The return of the search word posts! Each month, I will highlight my favorite search terms that brought people via search engines to the Maw Books Blog.  In the past, I have answered bookish questions (who, what, where, why, when, what page, etc).  I just can’t handle it anymore and dropping those will let me [...]

Interview with Michael Lee West, Author of Mermaids in the Basement

I’d love to welcome Michael Lee West, author of Mermaids in the Basement, to the Maw Books Blog!  It is my pleasure to host Michael today and it is my hope that if you haven’t read my book review of Mermaids in the Basement that you’ll do so and then join us for a great [...]

Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West

Mermaids in the Basement by MIchael Lee West begins just as everything is falling apart for Renata DeChavannes.  Still coping with the death of her mother and stepfather in a plane crash, she opens a tabloid to see her famous filmmaking director groping a highly popular actress, her job as a screenwriter has just gone [...]

The Lightning Thief, Book One of Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan

I read The Lightning Thief, Book One of Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan as part of my reading for my Children’s Literature Book Club this past month.  This young adult book is normally not the type of book that I would pick up on my own, but I found it to be [...]