October 28, 2010 – 9:54 am
I’m so excited to be part of the blog tour for Kristen O’Donnell Tubb’s new book, Selling Hope. Selling Hope is a YA book about a young girl living with her widowed father. The year is 1910 and Halley’s Comet is just about to pass over Earth. In a burst of ingenuity, Hope invents and [...]
October 23, 2010 – 10:34 am
The Book: Someone Like You, by Sarah Dessen
The Story: Halley and Scarlett have been BFF for a long time. Scarlett has always kind of been the “leader” and tends to be the one to pull Halley through the situations that they get into together.
Over the summer, while Halley is at camp, Scarlett starts dating a [...]
October 11, 2010 – 8:48 am
Re-reading this first book was like sliding into a warm bath. It was the coziest thing in the whole world. Being re-introduced to everyone and re-immersed in this whole world was maybe even more fun this time around because I have such a better idea of who everyone really is.
My favorite moments:
Meeting the Dursleys. They [...]
August 28, 2010 – 9:19 am
The Book: Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
A Note: I don’t usually fangirl and I don’t usually buy books the day they are released. I did both in this time around and I’m oh, so glad. Because I love the Hunger Games series and I want you to read it too, I want to give you this [...]
August 27, 2010 – 6:38 am
After doing my flashback on Forever Angels last week, it got me thinking about how I really did have a thing for sad, twisty books when I was middle school aged. I’m not really sure why. I had a pretty normal family life, didn’t know a ton of people who had died, [...]
August 12, 2010 – 10:42 am
The Book: Looking for Alaska, by John Green
The Story: This is a pretty basic YA novel: Miles is kind of quirky. His particular quirk is that he loves to know people’s last words before they die. He has about a zillion that he’s memorized and he reads tons of biographies so that he can collect [...]
Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
Writing about The Savior a couple of days ago got me thinking about some of my first exposures to the Holocaust. I read this when I was probably a little bit too young. I know that some high school teachers assign this book, but I’m pretty sure I [...]
Homecoming, by Cynthia Voight
Before I tell you about this book, let me say that finding the cover that I remember it having (the pinkish one that I posted up there) was a giant pain. I even re-bought this book recently at the goodwill and it had this cover, but the one that I found every [...]
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
So, I loved this book when I was growing up. I read it when I was pretty young and saw the movie and thought that it was all pretty great. Then, in maybe 6th or 7th grade (I really have no idea) we read it as a class and I learned [...]
The Book: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Story: Nick sees his ex-girlfriend (who he is still pretty much in love with) in a bar with another guy and impulsively asks the girl closest to him to be his girlfriend for five minutes to show his ex-girlfriend that he’s over [...]