Recommended by: Between the Covers
Ah, time travel books. You are so numerous, and yet you so often do not want me to love you. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Time Traveler’s Wife and me are buddies. Time at the Top makes my life happy by its very existence. It can be done. [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged connie willis, Diana Wynne Jones, doomsday book, not much plot, time travel on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Confession
Posted in Misc., tagged not reviewing, vampires on February 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am a bad blogger, both here and on my regular blog. This is because I am insanely busy with schoolwork (ugh, it never ends), and trying to secure my future in 500-1000 words; and when all that business is over with, I will still be a bad blogger because I have just discovered that [...]
The Chatham School Affair, Thomas H. Cook
Posted in Heard about from the internets, Unfinished, tagged boarding schools, foreshadowing, similes, the chatham school affair, thomas h. cook on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Meh.
Everyone kept comparing other books to The Chatham School Affair with favorable-sounding opinions, so I picked it up at the library a little while ago and started reading it, and I have to confess that I found it somewhat trying. I couldn’t get into the story because of all the frantic foreshadowing. It kept being [...]
The Valley of the Wolves, Laura Gallego Garcia
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged for young people, judging a book by its cover, laura gallego garcia, the valley of the wolves on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Hello,” a boy’s voice said.
Dana turned. A smiling boy was sitting on the rock wall, watching her pick the sticky fruit. Though he was about her age, Dana had never seen him before; but her family tended to keep to themselves, so that was not unusual. He was skinny, with unruly blond hair that fell [...]
Love, Let Me Not Hunger, Paul Gallico
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about in a book, Picked up randomly, tagged circus, feminism (and not), Love Let Me Not Hunger, Paul Gallico on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I’ll let you out of your contracts if you want, so you can get jobs with other circuses, but I’m telling you they’ll all go bust if this keeps up – just like the cinemas. But you know where they ain’t got the telly yet? Spain! And you know how I know? [...]
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged feminism (and not), for young people, New Moon, stephenie meyer, trashy, vampires on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Edward the Sexy Vampire: Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars – points of light and reason. And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had [...]
