Monsters of Men is the kind of series closer you hope for. It’s raw and real and answers questions but doesn’t leave things so definite that you can’t use your imagination. It grows the characters and the world and the plot without wrapping everything up in a neat little bow, and when you get to…
If ever there was a book that left me completely gutted, it was the second installment of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy, The Ask and The Answer. I read this book in one sitting because I couldn’t bear to put it down. I felt every emotion I could imagine – fear, joy, anger, love, loss…and…
I was recommended Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go by a librarian friend. She told me it was by far the best book she’d read that year. She said it gave Hunger Games a run for it’s money. I didn’t believe her. I couldn’t. Sure, the cover was amazing, but…how could we have…
Macy’s summer isn’t looking too hot. For one, her boyfriend, Jason, is going to be away at ‘Brain Camp’. For another, she’s agreed to take over his job at the library working the information desk. Her free time will most likely be spent either studying for the SATs or hanging with her mother, who has…
When I started reading this book I honestly had no idea what it was about. I’d read the flap and it struck me as a little…odd…a girl finds a mirror that belongs to a mermaid and she likes to surf? But I like mermaids, so I thought, “why not?” Lena lives in a small(ish) town…
It is a well known and well established fact that I don’t like to be scared. No horror movies. No R.L. Stein books as a kid and certainly no Stephen King. Yet the bulk of the appeal of Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder to me was that it gave me the creeps. As in it…
So this was another case of “oh my gosh the cover is so pretty I MUST READ THIS NOW!” Also, I thought the blurb sounded interesting but, as I discovered while reading, I had completely misread the blurb. I don’t know how or why but I was expecting this book to be a fantasy. It…
When I saw To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee book on the banned books list I was confused. Who could have a problem with a heartwarming tale of children discovering the truth of the world around them? A story about a widowed man trying to raise his children the best way he can? Children…
We’re taking a short break from talking about banned books (although there is still an opportunity to gain an entry in to our banned books giveaways. Details at the bottom) to talk about the books celebrating their birthdays this month! Here are some books to get excited about this October. (Once again I stole all…
John Green’s Looking for Alaska is a gateway drug. It’s no wonder that SafeLibraries.org fears that it will change the way teenagers think. However it’s not the 281 occurrences of swearing, the three frankly awkward sexual scenes portraying the differences between physicality and emotional connections, or the teen drinking and smoking that they should fear….