The hydro-gel eye mask is packed with algae extract, vitamin B3, amino acids, and allantoin. It promises to fight signs of dark circles, puffiness, fine lines, and wrinkles. The eye gels had a pleasant cooling effect when applied to my skin. The masks weren't drenched in serum so, they stayed in place. However, even with continued use, I have not noticed a difference and probably use a cheaper eye mask for relaxation purposes.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Book Review - The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann + Giveaway
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People who attend the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded
knows it is a place where no one wants to be. The young women who live
there certainly don't want to be there. Maxine has to protect her
younger sister Rose from mean attendants and older girls who like to
bully the weak. Alice has to fend for herself after her brother couldn't
support her because of her club foot. London was dragged to the school
after one unexpected moment in her life. Each of the four girls is
determined to change their fate, no matter what happens to them.
The novel was an interesting and unexpected read. Sometimes, it's
hard to imagine that we make progress when we are now having "The first
woman to do/win" or even a person of color to be the first. After
reading this novel, I am truly glad I was born in this era, otherwise, I
would surely have been deemed a moron, imbecile or idiot. It's hard to
imagine what these people suffered through just because they were
labeled as "different". However, there were
a few things I didn't like about the book. I wasn't fond of those
endings where the reader gets to decide what happens to the characters. I
wanted to know what happened to them. I wish there were more details on
London's foster guardian and I wanted to know what happened to her.
**Disclosure - I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. This post may contain affiliate links which means I earn advertising and/or referral fees if you purchase an item through my link. Please note, there will be no extra charges to you. Thank you for your support.**
The Degenerates
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
In the tradition of Girl,
Interrupted, this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early
20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took
the poor, the disabled, the marginalized—and institutionalized them for life.
The Massachusetts School
for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already
there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to
protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and
bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the
doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her
brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not
London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s
ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. Each girl is
determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.
BOOK LINKS
Bookdepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Degenerates-J-Albert-Mann/9781534419353?ref=grid-view&qid=1580238159491&sr=1-3
Google Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_Albert_Mann_The_Degenerates?id=r6OeDwAAQBAJ
BOOK AUTHOR
J. Albert Mann is the author of six
novels for children, with S&S Atheneum Books for Young Readers set to
publish her next work of historical fiction about the Eugenics Movement and the
rise of institutionalism in the United States. She is also the author of short
stories and poems for children featured in Highlights for Children, where she
won the Highlights Fiction Award, as well as the Highlights Editors’ Choice
Award. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children
and Young Adults, and is the Director of the WNDB Internship Grant
Committee.
Jennifer is represented by Kerry Sparks
at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.
AUTHOR LINKS
Website: http://jalbertmann.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.albertmann/
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Friday, March 13, 2020
Book Spotlight - Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal
Publisher: Candlewick (March 3, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1536209597
ISBN-13: 978-1536209594
Praise for MERMAID MOON
“Susann Cokal’s latest miracle, Mermaid Moon, springs from the tides where Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid once swam — and walked to land. But she delivers something even more rich and strange, and a mermaid heroine who will swim away with your heart.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
“Cokal's moody and sea-drenched tale weaves touches of Hans Christian Andersen with a dash of Pied Piper, using language that gorgeously sets each scene, including the exceedingly creepy bone vault … Lyrical, complex, and occasionally dark.” —School Library Journal
“Cokal creates a well-developed matriarchal mermaid mythology in which women couple, bonded by love and respect, and men are largely unnecessary. Through several voices and richly detailed prose, these markedly different worlds overlap and diverge to impart a nuanced exploration of power, family, faith, and love.” —Publishers Weekly
“Mermaid Moon is an action-packed tale of parental abandonment, familial longing, treachery and dark magic with an appealingly determined heroine.” —BookPage
“A beautifully told, immersive story that layers fairy-tale elements with more modern themes, allowing for a different experience with every reread.” —Shelf Awareness
Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm.
It is the way of the world.
Come close and tell us your dreams.
—The Mermaids
Sanna has been living as a mermaid — but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born.
Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish flok where women rule and mothers mean everything. She is determined to go to land and learn who she is. So she apprentices herself to the ancient witch, Sjældent, to learn the magic of making and unmaking. With a new pair of legs and a mysterious quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands.
Her fellow mermaids wait floating on the seaskin as Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness of fading beauty who will do anything to live forever, even at the expense of her own children.
From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.
Photo Content from Susann Cokal
Susann Cokal is a moody historical novelist, a pop-culture essayist, book critic, magazine editor, and sometime professor of creative writing and modern literature. She lives in a creepy old farmhouse in Richmond, Virginia, with seven cats, a dog, a spouse, and some peacocks that supposedly belong to a neighbor. She is the author of two books for young adults and two for regular adults.
Susann's previous book, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, received several national awards, including a silver medal from the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award series. It also got starred reviews in Kirkus, School Library Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and Publishers Weekly, and praise from Booklist, The New York Times Boook Review, and other venues. It was #3 on the Boston Globe list of best YAs of the 2013 and won an ALAN citation from the National Council of Teachers of English.
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
Book Spotlight - Ben Braver and the Vortex of Doom by Marcus Emerson + Giveaway
About The Book:
Title: BEN
BRAVER AND THE VORTEX OF DOOM (Ben Braver #3)
Author: Marcus Emerson
Pub. Date: March 3, 2020
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Formats: Hardcover,
Paperback, eBook
Pages: 384
An ordinary kid like Ben Braver is no match for
a band of super villains, but he may be humanity's only hope in Marcus
Emerson's Ben Braver and the Vortex of Doom.
The world will never be the same . . .
When the baddest of bad guys threatens the world
with a giant black hole, Ben Braver is the only one who can stop it. Ready or
not, he's about to learn what it really means to be a hero.
The Ben Braver series is “a crazy fun
ride--action packed and loaded with laughs!” says Max Brallier, author of the New
York Times–bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth.
Grab the first 2 books in the series!
About Marcus:
Marcus Emerson
is the author of the hit Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja series and the Secret Agent
6th Grader series. His career started in 2nd grade when he discovered Garfield.
He grew up playing Super Mario Bros. 4, watching Thundercats, and reading comics
like X-Men, Superman, and Wildcats. He lives in Eldridge, Iowa with his wife
and children.
Giveaway Details:
Three lucky winners will receive finished
copies of The BEN BRAVER SERIES, US Only.
Giveaway Link:
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3/2/2020
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