Review: Messenger is the third installment in Lowry’s The Giver Quartet, and it is beautiful. In this story, we meet Matty again. Matty was first introduced in Gathering Blue as Matt. In this story, Matty lives with Seer in Village, and has grown a few years older and more mature. Village is a place that […]
Review: I recently read The Giver for the first time as part of the 2011 Dystopian Challenge and thought it was amazing. I really love dystopian novels that are smart and entertaining, but this one seemed particularly thought-provoking. In fact, when I was finished with the book, I really had the sense that I […]
Monday means another Twilight link-up and today it is hosted over at The Secret Life of an Avid Reader! If you want to get in on the action, join in! This week we are discussing Chapters 11-15 and […]
Hosted by Reading Angel, Pure Imagination, & Candace’s Book Blog. In Summary I kept all of my updates and mini-challenges on one post that ran the entire length of the event. You can view my Once Upon A Read-a-Thon Update post HERE. This Read-a-Thon was a success for me. I met my goal and read three great […]
Die For Me by Amy Plum Publisher: HarperTeen Publish Date: May 10, 2011 341 Pages My Source: Library Die For Me by Amy Plum In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity. When Kate Mercier’s parents die in a tragic […]
Hosted by Reading Angel, Pure Imagination, & Candace’s Book Blog. I’m participating in the Once Upon A Read-a-Thon along with lots of other readers, and I am having a ton of fun so far. I am participating at a level that fits my life, which is…I’m reading whenever I can. While I do not have a job […]
I have been having a great time with this Twilight Re-Read Along! Monday means another link-up and today it is hosted by the fun and fabulous Reading Housewives of Indiana! If you want to get in on the Twilight action, it isn’t too […]
The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Publish Date: March 9, 2010 407 Pages My Source: Library The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with […]
Fat Kid Rules The World by K.L. Going Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout guitar genius, the stuff of which Lower East Side punk rock […]
Looking For Alaska by John Green Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska […]