Top Ten Tuesdays: Bookish Bucket List
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list a book-related bucket list. I am pretty sure most bloggers…
Young Adult
What do you think of The Giver’s First Look?
byWhen I read The Giver by Lois Lowry as a teen, I was just blown away by the book. It’s now made into a…
Top Ten Tuesdays: Popular Authors I’ve Never Read
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the Top Ten Popular Authors We’ve Never Read. This is…
Cover Reveals
byThere’s a lot of book cover news floating around the interwebs these days, and while normally I don’t talk much about book covers, there…
Top Ten Books That Made Me Cry
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the Top Ten books that made me cry. I am…
7.9 Loss, Hope, and Survival: Stay where you are and then leave
byThe day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield’s father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight – but he broke that promise…
Teaser Tuesdays: Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
byFor this teaser, I am highlighting a small conversation that comes up between 5-year old Alfie (the protagonist of this novel) and his parents….
Mailbox Mondays: January 20, 2014
byWelcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. I received the following books over the last couple of weeks….
Top Ten Tuesday – Memorable Secondary Characters in Books
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list Top Ten Most Memorable Secondary Characters in books. I hyper-ventilated…
9 The Throne of Fire
byThis is the second book in the Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan. I have reviewed the first book in the series – The…