Book: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Age-range: 13 and up
It's rare to find a YA science-fiction book aimed at girls. It's impossible to find a YA science-fiction book aimed at girls and based on a fairy tale. Yet that's exactly what Ms. Meyer has done. By page 44 I pretty much knew how the entire book would turn out, but I still enjoyed the ride. This is the first in a series and I will definitely read the other ones as they come out.
Happy reading!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday Thought
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
-Clare Booth Luce-
-Clare Booth Luce-
March Book #8
Book: The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
Age-range: 16 and up
This was the perfect book for me to read this year (the Year of the Writer). It breaks down publishing into understandable bites and lets you know what will happen, when, and how. There's a lot of great anecdotes and overall it left me feeling much better informed than I was before I read it.
Happy reading!
Age-range: 16 and up
This was the perfect book for me to read this year (the Year of the Writer). It breaks down publishing into understandable bites and lets you know what will happen, when, and how. There's a lot of great anecdotes and overall it left me feeling much better informed than I was before I read it.
Happy reading!
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
March Book #6
Book: Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler
Age-range: 14 and up
Good, but not great. I would recommend reading her other book Girls Don't Fly instead.
Age-range: 14 and up
Good, but not great. I would recommend reading her other book Girls Don't Fly instead.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
March Book #5
Book: Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Age-range: 14 and up
Ms. Ashton is another one of the author's I'll have the opportunity to meet on Saturday. This is her debut novel and it's amazing! It's a re-telling of the Persephone myth, in a way. It goes back and forth between past and present, showing you the life that Nikki had and the one she has now; before the Underworld (or Everneath) and after. I also love that it doesn't have an sex scenes or profanity; always a plus with me. I definitely recommend it.
Happy reading!
Age-range: 14 and up
Ms. Ashton is another one of the author's I'll have the opportunity to meet on Saturday. This is her debut novel and it's amazing! It's a re-telling of the Persephone myth, in a way. It goes back and forth between past and present, showing you the life that Nikki had and the one she has now; before the Underworld (or Everneath) and after. I also love that it doesn't have an sex scenes or profanity; always a plus with me. I definitely recommend it.
Happy reading!
March Book #4
Book: Missed Connections by Sophie Blackall
Age-range: 16 and up
It wasn't what I wanted it to be.
Age-range: 16 and up
It wasn't what I wanted it to be.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
March Book #3
Book: Girls Don't Fly by Kristen Chandler
Age-range: 12 and up
I like birds. This is a little-known fact about me. I picked up Ms. Chandler's book with no clue at all what it was about, I only knew I was going to be meeting her this weekend and I wanted to feel prepared, so I read her book. I loved it!
Myra is a senior in high school whose life is thrown for a loop when her boyfriend dumps her. She's been molding her whole life around him and suddenly he's gone. This book is about her finding her way, and finding her passion, on her own. I definitely recommend it.
Happy reading!
Age-range: 12 and up
I like birds. This is a little-known fact about me. I picked up Ms. Chandler's book with no clue at all what it was about, I only knew I was going to be meeting her this weekend and I wanted to feel prepared, so I read her book. I loved it!
Myra is a senior in high school whose life is thrown for a loop when her boyfriend dumps her. She's been molding her whole life around him and suddenly he's gone. This book is about her finding her way, and finding her passion, on her own. I definitely recommend it.
Happy reading!
Sunday, March 11, 2012
March Book #1
Book: My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison
Age-range: 12 and up
I'm going to have the opportunity to meet Ms. Rallison at a Writing for Charity event this week, so I wanted to read at least one of her books before that happened. I'm very glad that I chose this one. It was so cute! I went in not really knowing at all what to expect, but I think that made it even more fun to read. It's a contemporary YA novel with a few magical twists. The writing is funny and quick. All in all, I really liked it. Apparently there's a companion novel called My Fair Godmother, so now I'll have to seek that one out as well. Definitely even more excited to meet Ms. Rallison after reading this book.
Happy reading!
Age-range: 12 and up
I'm going to have the opportunity to meet Ms. Rallison at a Writing for Charity event this week, so I wanted to read at least one of her books before that happened. I'm very glad that I chose this one. It was so cute! I went in not really knowing at all what to expect, but I think that made it even more fun to read. It's a contemporary YA novel with a few magical twists. The writing is funny and quick. All in all, I really liked it. Apparently there's a companion novel called My Fair Godmother, so now I'll have to seek that one out as well. Definitely even more excited to meet Ms. Rallison after reading this book.
Happy reading!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thursday Thought
Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
-Henry Ward Beecher-
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
-Henry Ward Beecher-
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Thursday Thought
No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
-John Ruskin-
-John Ruskin-
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