Reading Queue is a monthly meme where you share what books you plan to read for the month. You can hop to other blogs and see what others are reading and maybe find someone reading the same thing as you! Or you can ask for people to vote on what you should read next if ... Read More »
Archives for April 2014
Top Ten Tuesday (20): Books to Read If You Love Once Upon a Time
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish with a different theme every week. Once Upon a Time is my favorite TV show. It has great characters. Snow White rescues herself most of the time and has a bow and arrow. The villains have well-devoloped motivations, personalities, and backgrounds. This is the kind ... Read More »
Book Review: The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Spoiler free even if you haven't read the first book in this series. The ending of The Shadow Throne went out with a bang. If you love adventure stories that have nail-bitter endings, then you need to read this series. The main character, Jaron, is the best part of this series. This is the story of ... Read More »
Orson Scott Card Book Signing
When I was a teenager, the Young Adult genre did not exist. You had juvenile fiction and you had adult fiction (and a very small section of books about teens that were extremely preachy that I stayed far, far away from). After I turned 12 (which was in the mid 1990's), I was always looking for ... Read More »
Book Review: House of Ivy & Sorrow by Natalie Whipple
My biggest thought about the House of Ivy & Sorrow is that it could have been more. The voice was there, but it didn't come out as much as it could have. The conflict definitely needed more to it. Even with a twist, the conflict came with an explanation already just based on how the ... Read More »