Oh my gracious, y’all! How much fun is this? It’s a Twilight re-read hosted by some fabulous book bloggers: Ginger at GReads Lisa the Nerd The Secret Life of an Avid Reader The Reading Housewives Like a lot of Twilight fans, I have wanted to re-read the series but do not really have the time […]

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi  In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship […]

Room by Emma Donoghue To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be […]

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong. It’s the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. […]

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool My Thoughts:  12-year-old Abilene Tucker has spent her entire life traveling with her father, Gideon, as he worked on the railroad. But suddenly he has sent her to Manifest, Kansas to live with Pastor Shady Howard, and she does not understand why. Abilene is a little heartbroken and misses […]