I picked up a copy of Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines when I was at Book Expo America in New York City earlier in the summer. I must admit that I was intrigued with the book but I was afraid it was a copycat of The Hunger Games, so I didn’t feel compelled [...]
Today is the day!! Catching Fire is in a bookstore near you! How exciting! I feel like there should be confetti and much fanfare. I was fortunate enough to read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins nearly three months ago and it is the book that I, nor anybody else, can stop talking about. This and [...]
Do you know how many people will not be able to resist making a pun of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and say that the book is catching fire? Well, include me in that bunch because it’s true. I’m not writing up a full review because with the book still not coming out for another [...]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of those breakout novels that if you haven’t heard of it yet then you are missing out. It’s seriously worthy of all the buzz that it’s getting. I borrowed The Hunger Games from Steph at The Children’s Literature Book Club and three weeks later it was still [...]
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is without a shadow of a doubt the geekiest book I’ve read this year. Set in the very near future 17 year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time when terrorists attack the Bay Bridge in San Fransisco. The Department of Homeland institutes [...]