I’ve heard a lot of comparisons between this book and Indiana Jones. And I must say, I totally agree. Indiana Jones1 was never going to win Best Picture from the Academy but they were always super fun, and the type of movies you could watch over and over again. So, too, was this book. Camille…
Scott Pilgrim, I think I’m in lesbians with you.1 I know this series was majorly hyped because of the movie that came out last month, but, for me, please, forget everything you think you know about the movie version of Scott Pilgrim. Because the books? They’re better.2 Let me start this lovefest by re-introducing you…
There is an exception to every rule. I hate the sci-fi genre. I hate dystopian novels. I have no use for alien races or novels with outdated-yet-futuristic cyber graphics on the cover. Except, naturally, for one. Orson Scott Card’s novel, and frankly the entire series that it spawned, Ender’s Game, proved in both the year…
Hey! I’m back with another installment of ‘Time To Be A Grown-Up’ Thursday! This week I thought I’d tell y’all about a national bestseller that I deeply enjoyed: the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, which consists of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the…
My absolute favourite name for a male is Will. Not William or Bill or anything like that, just Will. And I’ve been incredibly lucky lately that a lot of YA authors have been naming their lead males Will. One of those authors is Sophie Jordan in debut YA1 novel Firelight. I loved this book. I…
Reading a road trip book about coming of age while on a road trip to celebrate me coming of age (re: old), was one of those trippy experiences that rode the edge between happenstance and kismet. Every once in a while I come across books that I connect with, whether it be because I relate…
I fully picked this book up in Barnes and Noble because it had a rec from Suzanna Collins on the cover. I have no shame in admitting that. And, ok, I liked the cover, too. And the title. And, fine, I read a few pages and that tickled me enough to buy it. But still….
I should prefix this review by saying that I read this book while sitting around a campfire eating roasted marshmallows that had been stuffed with M&Ms. So, I’m a little biased in its favour. After reading a slew of first-person, present-tense novels I found this one a little difficult to get into because of its…
Danica, the heir to the avian kingdom as their Tuuli Thea (Queen), is at a crossroads. Her people’s welfare and safety are what she cares about most, but they’re impossible to guarantee as the avian people are engaged in a war with the serpiente that has gone on for so long, no one remembers how…
The second in our Flashback Friday series is more than just a good book I remember reading when I was a teenager. It is the first real novel (besides ones written by Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine) that I can remember reading. My sister gave it to me when I lamented about how all…