I love reading award winning books. There’s something that is quite gratifying about reading a book of verified quality. When I saw the Newbery Award winning The View From Saturday by EL Konigsburg in the Audible $5 sale, I immediately snapped it up. One of the other main reasons being that it is set mostly in […]
Misty Of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry Audiobook Review
July 28, 2012
I must confess, I never went through a horse crazy phase and thus never read the classic Misty Of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry as a child. Clearly, I was missing out and of course in an effort to reclaim bits of my lost childhood, I borrowed the audiobook from the library. If you also did […]
The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han Book Review
July 21, 2012
One staple of contemporary young adult literature is the beach setting. Jenny Han makes great use of the beach setting in her novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty, which explores the changes that come with adolescence and young love. Every summer Belly and her family stay at her mom’s best friend Susannah’s beach house at […]
Being Friends With Boys Terra Elan McVoy Book Review
June 21, 2012
When it comes to YA contemporary fiction, there is no opinion I trust more than Shanyn’s. One of the authors she consistently recommends is Terra Elan McVoy. Of course, I immediately jumped on the chance to read Being Friends With Boys which explores the complications that can arise with having only male friends. Atlanta teen […]
The Bad Apple TR Burns Book Review
June 14, 2012
The Bad Apple by TR Burns (Tricia Rayburn) is the first of a middle grade series called The Merits Of Mischief. Seamus Hinkle finds himself at Kilter Academy after accidentally killing a substitute teacher with one bad throw of an apple. To outsiders, Kilter looks like the harshest reform school on the block. To the […]
The Celery Stalks At Midnight James Howe Book Review
June 8, 2012
No matter how you slice it, the fact of the matter is that I am a fan of both zombie vegetables AND mystery solving animals. I also quite like old school book covers and vampiric rabbits. Of course, I really took to The Celery Stalks At Midnight by James Howe, third in the Bunnicula series, […]