Posted in adult fiction | August 29th, 2006
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos Bess recommended this book about a month ago on her blog and I added it to my already long list of books to read. I loved this book and it’s been added to the all-time favorites list along with Prep and The Time Traveler’s Wife. It’s beautifully [...]
Posted in juvenile books, middle grade | August 22nd, 2006
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White This is a book that I’ve always meant to read but have just never gotten around to until now. I don’t know why it took me this long to read it. I absolutely loved this book. I felt like I couldn’t read it fast enough. What a sweet and wonderful [...]
Posted in juvenile books, middle grade | August 19th, 2006
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene Bryan is reading this for a class and since I don’t remember any of the Nancy Drew books I read, I decided to read this one since it’s the first one. It was a typical mystery and what I expected, but I definitely see the appeal [...]
Posted in young adult | August 17th, 2006
The Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt I really loved this book. It’s about a 16-year-old girl who was adopted and her birth mother suddenly wants to get in contact with her. This was a really good book about family and what your family means to you. I’m not adopted but I [...]
Posted in young adult | August 13th, 2006
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray I actually started this book before reading A Great and Terrible Beauty only to find out this is the sequel Rebel Angels. After about 30 pages I had no idea what was going on, so I decided to stop and read the other book first. I’m glad that I read [...]
Posted in young adult | August 2nd, 2006
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray I found out about this book because the author has a comment on The Minister’s Daughter. This book sounded good so I thought I’d give it a try. I actually started the sequel Rebel Angels first and realized I had no idea what was going on, so [...]