Goodreads Summary: A collection of seven humorous stories reflecting the ups and downs of teenage love and life.
Original reading: Probably in middle school
Recent reading: 9/10/14-9/16/14
3/5 stars
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Review: I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost by Ellen Conford
Good evening! For your edification, I have posted a humble review of the young adult short story fiction collection I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost by Ellen Conford.
Goodreads Summary: A collection of seven humorous stories reflecting the ups and downs of teenage love and life.
Original reading: Probably in middle school
Recent reading: 9/10/14-9/16/14
3/5 stars
Goodreads Summary: A collection of seven humorous stories reflecting the ups and downs of teenage love and life.
Original reading: Probably in middle school
Recent reading: 9/10/14-9/16/14
3/5 stars
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Review: Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Good evening! For my nostalgia, I have posted a humble review of the middle grade urban fantasy novel Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy, a novel I consider to be one of my own personal formative works.
Goodreads Summary: They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school -- or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.
But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
Original reading: Sometime when I was this book's target demographic
Recent reading: 9/1/14-9/7/14
5/5 stars
(There are some light spoilers in this review.)
Goodreads Summary: They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school -- or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.
But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
Original reading: Sometime when I was this book's target demographic
Recent reading: 9/1/14-9/7/14
5/5 stars
(There are some light spoilers in this review.)
Monday, September 1, 2014
Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Good evening! For your first-blog-post bemusement, I present a humble review of the young adult urban fantasy novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Woo! Yay for new blogs I'm probably going to forget about in a month!
Goodreads Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
Original reading: N/A
Recent reading: 8/30/14-9/1/14
3/5 stars
(There are some light spoilers in this review.)
Goodreads Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
Original reading: N/A
Recent reading: 8/30/14-9/1/14
3/5 stars
(There are some light spoilers in this review.)
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