Spooky Little Girl Blog Tour

Yesterday, Morning Runner posted her take on Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro. She is the 4th stop on the 5 stop tour! The next stop is good ole Tennessee! Thanks for posting your review and partcipating! You can click on the labels at the bottom to read Lisa's review and my review!

Spooky Little Girl has been on the shelves since April 13th, so get moving and pick it up!

Don't forget to vote for the May Blogger Book Club selection. I will be posting the poll on Friday night instead of Saturday and the poll will close Monday!

Review: Spooky Little Girl

"We all carry a hope that our death will not be in vain, or that it will assume
some higher translation, maybe even taking on metaphoric stature. In life,
we all want our deaths to be magnificent and relevant. And in your case...
I'm sorry, no." - pg. 60

I received an ARC of this book, and read it, in February from a goodreads.com giveaway. I have to say it wasn't what I thought it was going to be and that IS A GOOD THING! I also hosted a Blog Tour for Spooky Little Girl, but only Lisa has shared her thoughts so far..

Spooky Little Girl is the story of Lucy Fisher and how one bad week turned into the Worst Week Ever. First, she comes back from the trip of a lifetime to find ALL of her belongings on the front yard and the locks changed on the house she shares with her boyfriend Martin. No explanation besides a note telling her she can pick up her dog on Thursday. Lucy is completely bewildered and has no idea why Martin has changed the locks, his phone number and will not talk to her.

Then she shows up to work and is accused of stealing a HUGE deposit from her employer. Then she tests positive for cocaine???? And accused of stealing drugs? She thinks she is in a bad dream. But no, this is her life.

So she drives up to her sister's house to hide out and figure out what to do. The next day, she gets hit by a bus. Totally gives new meaning to any of our bad weeks, right?

When Lucy "wakes up" she finds herself in the Transition Center and learns she must attend Ghost School and learn how to haunt. This is where the story picks up and really started cracking me up. Lucy has some hilarious, quirky and silly ghost classmates. She then is sent back to Earth to attend to her assignment so she can move onto The State. (Essentially, your individual view of what would be in Heaven).

"She had had the worst day of her death, and by her calendar, it had only been
her second one." - pgs. 98 & 99

I really don't want to give away anymore because the story drops out more details the further in you get. Let's just say, it was a light and funny read. Nothing I would probably have thought to read on my own, and by reading the back cover, I would have probably rolled my eyes. But it is a cute book. I love the funny chapter names and I have to say the Authors Note in the back of the book is something you have to read at the end.

"You won't fail," Ruby assured all of them. " I make good ghosts.
Plus, the devil is on sabbatical right now, anyway. He's got a gig on AM
radio, and I heard he got tangled up with triplets known as OxyContin, Lorcet,
and Vicodin." pg. 101

(Quite possibly my favorite line of the entire book. I had to read this to my husband).

Definitely worth checking out. And the good news? It is ON SALE TODAY!!!

Have you had any experiences with ghosts? What was your worst week ever?

Spooky Little Girl Blog Tour

I mentioned here about how I received an ARC in the mail from goodreads.com for Spooky Little Girl. I asked around for those who would be interested in a Blog Tour in anticipation of its April 13th release. I had interest and I think there will be at least four stops for the book. If anyone still would like to participate feel free to send me your email address, but I can't guarantee that you will get it before the book comes out. As it is, I am not sure all four of our stops will happen before the book gets out!

I am sending the book out to its first stop today, hopefully everyone will write up a little post that I can share here. Look back on April 13th for my review!

PS... I think you're going to like it!!!

Just in My Mailbox...

I just received an ARC of spooky little girl by Laurie Notard from Random House Publishing via Goodreads First Reads Program. Spooky little girl comes out 4/13/10.

From Goodreads.com :
Death is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Coming home from a Hawaiian vacation with her best girlfriends, Lucy Fisher is stunned to find everything she owns tossed out on her front lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancé’s phone disconnected—plus she’s just lost her job. With her world spinning wildly out of her control, Lucy decides to make a new start and moves upstate to live with her sister and nephew.

But then things take an even more dramatic turn: A fatal encounter with public transportation lands Lucy not in the hereafter but in the nearly hereafter. She’s back in school, learning the parameters of spooking and how to become a successful spirit in order to complete a ghostly assignment. If Lucy succeeds, she’s guaranteed a spot in the next level of the afterlife—but until then, she’s stuck as a ghost in the last place she would ever want to be.

Trying to avoid being trapped on earth for all eternity, Lucy crosses the line between life and death and back again when she returns home. Navigating the perilous channels of the paranormal, she’s determined to find out why her life crumbled and why, despite her ghastly death, no one seems to have noticed she’s gone. But urgency on the spectral plane—in the departed person of her feisty grandmother, who is risking both their eternal lives—requires attention, and Lucy realizes that you get only one chance to be spectacular in death.

I am excited to read it. I think it will be a well deserved light funny read. It’s in my pile next to my chair underneath The Reader and The Sister Pact.

It made me wonder, who else would be interested in reading this ARC? If I get enough interest, I was thinking of sending my copy on a Blog Tour. It could travel around to those who are willing and able to read and review it on their blog in anticipation of its 4/13 release date.

If you would be interested in taking part of a Spooky Little Girl Blog Tour, leave a comment and include your email address. Depending on the amount of interest I will get it started. And if it’s only one person, hey you are the lucky recipient of my copy when I’m done. :) Just FYI though, if you want to participate I will need your mailing address and will give it to the person who will be responsible for mailing it to you, so if you are uncomfortable sharing that info, be forewarned.

Have a great weekend!