Wonderstruck Winner!

I first read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster way back in middle school. (And, for everyone not lucky enough to have grown up in Texas, middle school doesn’t mean junior high. It’s usually 5th and 6th though sometimes 4th grades). At least, I’m pretty sure that’s when I read it. But when isn’t so…

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…

And now we bring ourselves to the third book in the Penguin Five. I must say, I’m loving the Penguin Five. In fact, I’m just loving Penguin. They’ve done such awesome things with the marketing for these books. I hope we get a Penguin Five 2011. I loved so many things about this book that…

Remember when vampires were cool and sexy? Aren’t you glad that’s pretty much over? Well, I am. I remember from my youth vampires being the bad guys. The ones you hid from and tried to kill before they killed you. Sure, there were the sympathetic ones whose ability to restrain themselves was admirable, but for…

In preparing to write this review I went to Goodreads to see what I had initially written about it and then decided to see what all my friends had thought of it. And while everyone loved it they all kept referring to the “reboots” as zombies. And. ugh. no. I hate zombie books. But I…

I’m admittedly about to do something a bit different for today’s review. Generally when we review books it’s because we loved them and want to let the world know that they too should be reading this book. Yes there are occasionally aspects that we might not like, but as a whole if we don’t like…