This week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is up: Books Set at the Beach/Near the Sea. Oh man. It’s like these ladies are just trying to test my faint memories of books gone by! Seriously doubting I’ll make it to ten on this one, guys, but I’ll give it a READ MORE
Year: 2013
LET’S TALK | MOST ANTICIPATED FALL/WINTER BOOKS
This week’s topic on I Swim for Oceans’ weekly “Let’s Talk” link up is: Most Anticipated Fall/Winter Books. Since I stopped reviewing books for an established website, I haven’t been keeping up with upcoming catalogues, so I only have a limited knowledge of what’s coming up in the next 4 months. But that’s not READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | GOING BOVINE – LIBBA BRAY
This is the story of a totally normal teenaged boy called Cameron. Cameron has a sister, two parents, enjoys quirky music and smoking up and eating pizza. Like most teenaged boys, Cameron’s biggest problems are not doing well in school, not getting along with (and frequently disappointing) his parents, not being able to find a READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WISH HAD SEQUELS
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is up: Books I Wish Had Sequels.This is an excellent topic – I just hope I can do it justice! I warn you there are a few cheats in here. But they’re honest cheats. So bear with me. 1. The Harry Potter Series READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | GOOD OMENS – TERRY PRATCHETT AND NEIL GAIMAN
This book holds the dubious honour of being my all-time favourite. I generally hesitate to make such intense statements, fearing disappointment on the reader’s part if they find that the expectations I built up don’t measure up to the experience. In this case, I have no such reservations. —— It is the story of READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: BEGINNINGS/ENDINGS OF BOOKS
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is another thought-provoking topic: Top Ten Beginnings/Endings of Books. This one is going to be tough for me, I’ll say that right up front. As I discussed in the last “Let’s Talk” post, my reading has been slow and sporadic for the last READ MORE
LET’S TALK | YOUR READING HABITS
This week’s topic on I Swim for Oceans’ weekly “Let’s Talk” link up is a good one: Your Reading Habits. This might require a bit of thought. I go through phases with reading. Sometimes I’m voracious, devouring book after book – sometimes one every couple of days. Other times I’ll go a month without READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS THAT MAKE ME *NOT* READ A BOOK
This was actually yesterday’s link, so I’m a day behind – but better late than never! And this week’s Top Ten Tuesday with The Broke and the Bookish is a great topic: What ten things make me NOT read a book? This is going to require some thought, because a lot of the time READ MORE
BOOK NEWS | PENGUIN GOES GRAFF
You may not know this about me, but in addition to being a book worm, I also LOVE street art. Love love. I’ve spent an incalculable amount of time wandering back streets and with my nose pressed against bus windows peering down alleyways most people do their best to ignore in the hopes of READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AGENT 21: RELOADED – CHRIS RYAN
This is the second book in the Zak Darke Agent 21 series (the first being, of course, Agent 21). Rather than struggle to sumarize the story for you I’m going to let Chris Ryan introduce you to the plot of the book: Sound exciting? It is. Like the first book in the READ MORE
LET’S TALK | BOOKS THAT WOULD MAKE GREAT MOVIES OR SHOWS
Linking up for the first time with one of my newly-discovered fave book blogs for a weekly series called “Let’s Talk.” This week’s topic is one that I’ve been meaning to write about anyway – so it seemed like a great opportunity: books that would make great movies or TV shows. I have a READ MORE
What are “Inappropriate” Topics for Teens to Read?
This post is a response to a really interesting article I read on Book Riot by Kelly Jensen. The article is called “What Are Grown-Ups Afraid of in YA Books?” and discusses the reactions adults have to YA books that deal with “adult” topics like rape, abortion, gangs, sex, etc. Some adults feel that these READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | BOY NOBODY – ALLEN ZADOFF
Boy Nobody is the story of a teenaged assassin. Yeah, you read right. Think Jason Bourne, but the early, early years. Like Bourne, Boy Nobody is trained to kill high-profile targets in such a manner that no one suspects that they didn’t die of natural causes. His typical modus operandi is to start at a READ MORE
BOOK NEWS | THE ROBERT GALBRAITH SUBTERFUGE
If you’re a J.K. Rowling fan, you’ve probably heard the buzz over the last few days since it was revealed that a relatively unheard-of crime novel by a first-time author called Robert Galbraith was, in fact, a product of the pen of none other than the Harry Potter creator herself. My first reaction to the READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AGENT 21 – CHRIS RYAN
When Zak Darke’s parents die of supposed food poisoning while on a business trip, Zak is left an orphan. Reluctantly taken in by his aunt and uncle, the only person left in the world who cares about Zak is his cousin, Ellie. He doesn’t even have very many friends at school, where he spends READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THIS IS WHAT HAPPY LOOKS LIKE – JENNIFER E. SMITH
The story begins with a mis-typed email address that leads two strangers into an online correspondence that lasts for months before they ever have a chance to meet. The girl, Ellie, lives in a small town in Maine whose only claim to fame is an over-abundance of lobster. She lives with her mom READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | ELEANOR & PARK – RAINBOW ROWELL
The GoodReads description for this book reads: Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. Which, if weren’t for the cover, would have made me READ MORE
I’D RATHER BE READING…
It’s Monday morning, I didn’t sleep well and I really wish I could just go home and curl up in my nice, cosy chair because I have a whole stack of good books to read! Here are a few that are on my to-read-next list: The Hundred-Year-Old Man (Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared) READ MORE