Unable to read Mockingjay until three days after its release, I stayed off Twitter and Facebook to avoid spoilers. I ignored emails with Mockingjay thoughts or links to book reviews. I didn’t even read the book jacket. When I’m looking forward to a book, especially the last in a series, I want to dive in [...]
Mix the small town sweetness of Fannie Flagg’s novels, some mysterious strangers from Neil Gaiman’s tales, a little bit of Charlie Daniels, and some great writing, and you have a fabulous story by Kate Milford. That’s right, I said Charlie Daniels, as in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” You just started singing that, didn’t [...]
All is well with the emo, Bright Eyes-bleeding couple Bella and Edward when Eclipse, the third book of Stephenie Meyer’s uber-sensitivo contemporary goth novel opens. This one is more of a bosom clutching, fainting spells romance than the previous book in the series, New Moon. The young love birds are following a period of crossed [...]
This book was one of the options for out lit. circle books in reading class. I was on the waiting list for The Book Thief. When the time came to read the book, I was super excited to start this book. From the description my teacher gave us, challenging and about the holocaust, it sounded [...]
Katniss Everdeen is back in Catching Fire, the second novel in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Earlier I hailed the first book, The Hunger Games, because I loved the strong, intelligent, ballsy Katniss, and I could do the same for this one. After having won the Hunger Games for herself and Peeta by [...]
You know how sometimes you sit down with a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints with the intent of only having a few (and who knows why your brought the whole sleeve with you, but you did) and then a few hours later you seem to wake from a mint-cookie induced reverie to discover you’ve [...]
I finished Michael J. White’s debut novel Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter pretty quickly. On top of that, I finished it over a month ago. I didn’t review it sooner because I couldn’t quite figure out how to write about it. (It didn’t hurt that I was busy with school and the behemoth [...]
The premise behind Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a little hard to swallow. Set in the not-too-distant future, years after the second United States civil war, fought over abortion, teenagers are dealing with the aftermath of the agreement that ended the war. The two sides agreed that abortions would no longer occur, but the parents [...]
Think of a mix between John Bender and Brian Johnson (a.k.a. Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall from “The Breakfast Club”) and you have Cameron, the 16-year-old punk geek from Libba Bray’s young adult novel, Going Bovine. Cameron, an outsider compared to his pretty, popular twin sister, listens to obscure music, smokes pot with the [...]
After years of disasters, droughts, fires, storms, and war, the United States has long been replaced by Panem, a country divided between the Capitol and the twelve districts it oversees. There were once thirteen districts, but all were defeated when they tried to overthrow the Capitol and one district was destroyed. To continue to showcase [...]
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