Well, I have just finished up Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer’s third trashy vampire book. In case you were wondering whether all the trashy continues unabated, the answer is a resounded and unqualified YES.
Basically, in this book, Bella and Edward have lots of anxieties for several reasons, including 1) she misses Jacob and wants to play with [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged Eclipse, edward is emotionally abusive, for young people, stephenie meyer, trashy, vampires on March 29, 2008 | 71 Comments »
The Juniper Game, Sherryl Jordan
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged fantastic protagonists, for young people, Sherryl Jordan, The Juniper Game, time travel on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“What I want to do,” said Juniper, “is an experiment in mental telepathy.” She hesitated, waiting for his reaction. There wasn’t one. “I know I have some telepathic abilities,” she went on more confidently. “I can go through a pack of cards, face down, and guess about fifteen correctly. And I often know who it [...]
Miss Spitfire, Sarah Miller
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Annie Sullivan, for young people, historical fiction, Miss Spitfire, people I truly admire, Sarah Miller on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recommended by: Book Nut
I love Annie Sullivan. Every time I think about Annie Sullivan it blows my mind. She was twenty when she went to go teach Helen Keller, and she’d had no proper parenting, and she was twenty, and she must have been just about the most brilliant and inventive person of all time. [...]
Sweethearts, Sara Zarr
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged for young people, jealous of mili avital, sara zarr, sweethearts on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recommended by: God knows. Some website. I remember seeing it but I didn’t take note of where and now I can’t remember. I’m cute but dumb.
I actually bought this book mainly out of terror and dismay, as it sounded a lot like a story I’m in the process of drafting, and when I read about [...]
The most unbelievable luck
Posted in Misc. on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So there was a book fair today, right, and do you know what I bought for one dollar, one dollar?
A shiny clean hardback of Crocodile on the Sandbank. For a dollar. A hundred pennies.
Wow.
I also got hardbacks of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of King Midas, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the [...]
The Children of Green Knowe, L.M. Boston
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged boring children's books from long ago, for young people, L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oh my God this book was boring. It was so, so, so boring. It started out boring and it carried on being boring and there was nothing but boring and I kept thinking that something, anything, would have to happen eventually, but nothing ever did. Ever. Nothing ever happened. There was some conflict set up; [...]
