I’ve haven’t been this excited for award season before! Since the inception of this blog, I’ve been reading a lot more books that were published this past year. Although, I haven’t read nearly all the books getting Newbery buzz, I was curious to see how some of my favorites would do. So without further ado [...]
At the age of 14, in The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Frankie is more or less forgettable. She is attending a prestigious and competitive boarding school, the same school where her older sister and father attended. But no matter how hard she tries, nobody seems to take notice of her. Now [...]
Speak is the first Laurie Halse Anderson book that I’ve read and it certainly won’t be the last. I loved the way in which Speak was written. I’m not exactly sure how to describe it. It’s very minimalistic. Short and to the point. It was refreshing to discover a very stylized book, at least a [...]
Having just discovered Marcus Zusak this year having The Book Thief (review here) I was eager to read more of him. And it seemed like everybody that was reading The Book Thief was reading his I Am the Messenger. So I thought why not? What can I tell you about I Am the [...]
Where do I even start on this one? The Book Thief by Markus Zusak was our neighborhood book club selection, we haven’t yet met to discuss it, but I couldn’t wait to write about it. First off, I could not believe that The Book Thief is considered a young adult book. I [...]
