Read this month

Karma
Hate List
Remember Me
Shadowcry
How to say goodbye in Robot
Geetastik: Tales from the Nerd Herd
Thirteen reasons why
Fallen

Reading now:
Hereafter
Dead Tossed Waves

I think I am going to try to do this in a more efficient way.  I am going to join GoodReads or Librarything... Watcht for it coming soon....

What I am reading now....

I just finished Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford.    I am also reading The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller, and I am starting the Hate List tonight.  I won't bore you with my grad class readings.....but I am doing that too.

haven't posted in a bit....

I read tons of books this summer (one reason is that I had a class), but I haven't posted on here in awhile.  Here are the highlights.
Favorite Book: Divergent by Veronica Roth

This video doesn't really do it justice, but it is a dystopia and is just as good as Hunger Games if not better.

Ally Carter's books are cute.  I read The Heist Society and one of the Gallagher Girl Books this summer.

I am also into book trailers right now if you haven't noticed.  I am going to start using some on our website at school to feature and highlight books.  I LOVE my job!!!:)

I read Mortal Instruments series.... City of Bones, City of Glass, City of Ashes, and City of Fallen Angels.  http://bcove.me/sh8h9koi

Also really good was the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan.  I read this just last weekend.

I read a bunch more....but I don't have time to add to this tonight.  I love YA Lit!!!!:)

Nick Hornby--not exactly kid fiction---

Don't ask why, but I am reading two Nick Hornby's novels at once.  How to be Good, and Slam.  The first one I am more than half way through and I really like it.....and since you pleaded and asked me why till I can barely stand it anymore.....I left this book at school, and was so mad when I realized that I couldn't finish it this weekend....so I started Slam.  It has the auora of About a Boy, but so far I am not feeling it too much.  I hope this changes, but I love everything Nick Hornby writes.  Everything from Juliet Naked, to the Pollysallabic Spree, to High Fidelty....all of it. 

I would love to put his books in a high school library, but I am not sure about how that would go over.  Sherman Alexie's books are in the library, and I was actually suprised at first, but I don't think our librarian knew some of the stuff that is in his books.....she took them back off the shelves I think.  There is some really great literature out there that would appeal to teenagers I think, but how do you decide how much they can handle....or actually....how much their parents can handle?  Especially in the Bible belt of the Bible belt......
hmmmm.......

Hunger Game series

So I finished the rest of the Hunger Game series, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.  I really liked them, but not quite as much as the first.  A lot of people I talk to say they only like the first one, and the other two aren't very good.  Not so sure I am with them, but I know why they say what they do. 

Suzanne Collins is especially good at creating suspense and action.  You really like the characters and are torn between which boy that the main character should end up with. 
Although some of the plot is easy to figure out, such as who is going to side with the capitol and who is going to join the revolution, it is interesting what happens with Peeta's character, and the result is not always pleasing, but again, slightly realistic.  What else might you expect from a dystopia?

oh yeah....I also read Reckless!

i read this recently as well. These two books were both incredible.

books I read recently....

The Luxe

by Anna Godbersen

2007

The Luxe is a hugely popular series right now. I can understand its appeal. Gorgeous wealthy women who have recently come out to society are choosing their fates, and are struggling with the mores of the past, and the decadence of the present. I appreciate Godbersen's attention to detail. As someone who studies Germanics, it was interesting to note the casual allusion to a Rheinlander, a member of a German immigrant community. Rheinlanders are known to have settled in New York. The story kept me involved, but it was rather predictable because the hook she used allowed me guess most of the story early in the novel. Her novels remind me of a teenage version of Victoria Holt's historical romances. They are definitely romances which usually are created to formula, but stop just short of lurid sex scenes, and blatant nudity. I also appreciate the use of narration, and change in perspective form each young lady, or gentleman. It allows to create more than one main character, and see more than one perspective. This will obviously work well with sequels (as there are three more which I have on reserve at the library). The books will relate well to young women who are romantics at heart wanting more than reality sometimes offers.

Review-The Lost Hero

Heroes of Olympus

The Lost Hero
by Rick Riordan
October 12th, 2010

check out the video on Amazon about the book!

http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Olympus-Book-One-Lost/dp/142311339X/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header

The Prophecy:



Seven Half bloods shall answer the call
To storm or fire the world must fall
An oath to keep with a final breath
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death


Rick Riordan, with his first book of this new series has blended perfectly bits of the old series into something entirely new. He introduces the concept of Roman mythology with its similiarities and differences to the Greek myths that we have learned in the Percy Jackson stories. He has created a potential time bomb by bringing the two together. Potentially the hostility goes back as far as the heroes from the Trojan war when the sole Trojan survivor Aeneas leaves Troy for Rome after his home had been destroyed by the Greeks. Riordan has also created new likeable characters while not forgetting the old. He becomes more and more adept at weaving these mythological stories into his tales so that it becomes much more than just a retelling of mythological stories. Overall, Riordan continues to create suspenseful stories which can be enjoyed by young readers, and also teach them and lead them to the past great epics and mythologies of the Greeks and Romans.

The purpose of this blog is to review, and explore books. Can't wait to begin. I will probably begin with the book that I have read most recently. I will keep you in suspense for the title.:) I will possibly review all books, but I am going to focus on YA literature. Hope you will find something that interests you!