October 9, 2011 – 9:40 am
The Book: Lola and the Boy Next Door, by Stephanie Perkins
The Story: Lola is kind of the coolest girl ever. She has an incredible wardrobe of costumes and wigs. She has two great dads. She has a hot rocker boyfriend. She lives in San Francisco and kind of just does her own [...]
October 8, 2011 – 7:55 am
The Book: Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
The Story: Anna is just a normal almost-Senior in an Atlanta high school. She has an almost-boyfriend and an awesome best friend. She’s looking forward to her senior year and bam! Her dad tells her that she’ll be going to a Parisian boarding school [...]
October 6, 2011 – 6:44 pm
The Book: I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
The Story: John Wayne Clever truly is not a serial killer. He has never killed anyone, in fact…. but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t think about it. A lot.
He is obsessed with serial killers, is likely a sociopath, and has rituals [...]
October 5, 2011 – 10:03 pm
The Book: Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
The Story: Amy was frozen in a box along side her family, put on a ship and flung into space. Seriously.
The plan was to wake them up when they got to their planet, but something has gone wrong and Amy was unthawed about 50 years [...]
October 4, 2011 – 9:16 am
The Book: Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
The Story: Lena Holoway is born into a world that has been totally rid of love. Scientists in the past realized that love was the reason that there was hurt, pain, anger, jealousy, and passion in the world. They developed a surgery that successfully rid people of Love and [...]
October 3, 2011 – 8:07 am
The Book: Hex Hall, by Rachel Hawkins
The Story: Sophie is a witch. She is also just a normal high schooler that lives with her non-witch mom. She came into her powers when she was 12 and really doesn’t know much about them… except that they work. On prom night, they may just [...]
September 29, 2011 – 8:31 am
The Book: The Story of My Father: A Memoir, by Sue Miller
The Story: Sue Miller, a well known novelist, is taken totally off guard when her reliable, wonderful father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It’s a hard pill to swallow for any child, but for Sue it seemed especially hard because he had always been the [...]
September 21, 2011 – 3:20 pm
The Book: Desperation, by Stephen King
The Story: This is the companion novel that goes with The Regulators. They aren’t a “series” exactly and can be read in any order, but the do have some characters that overlap and a similar storyline. Just so ya know.
Desperation is a town in in-the-middle-of-nowhere Nevada. [...]
September 17, 2011 – 8:24 pm
The Book: Bossypants, by Tina Fey
The Story: Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live/30 Rock/Sarah Palin fame tells her life story. From her early days as a drama nerd, to Second City, to her interview with Lorne Michaels, to the birth of her daughter and everything in between.
What I Thought: I hate driving. [...]
September 14, 2011 – 11:04 am
The Book: Shadow Baby, by Alison McGhee
The Story: Clara winter (yup, the lack of capitalization is on purpose) is 12 year old girl with a very, very active imagination. She is growing up in a rural town with her mother. She religiously quizzes her mother about the whereabouts of her grandfather, father and twin sister. [...]