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30 Books in 30 Days, #8: Slated by Teri Terry
Slated by Teri Terry Published in 2012 by Orchard Books (UK) Published in 2013 by Speak (US) ISBN: 978-0-14-242503-9 Reading time: 4h30 Rating: 3 Stars In the enlightened society of the future,...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #9: Scarlet in the Snow by Sophie Masson
Scarlet in the Snow by Sophie Masson Published in 2013 by Random House Australia ISBN: 978-1-74275-815-2 Reading time: Rating: 3 Stars One of the most beautiful things about storytelling is how the...
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30 Books in 30 Days. #10: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
In a better world, we would all have a relationship like Jesse Aarons had with Leslie Burke.
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30 Books in 30 Days, #11: Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Wonder illustrates the downs and ups of being different, or of even having a different friend, how intention is not an essential ingredient to being mean, and how easily misunderstanding can come into...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #12: Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
Characters who can pronounce grammatical marks will generally leave me confused.
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Off to Edmonton for Pure Spec!
I'm off to Pure Speculation in Edmonton for a chance to get my geek on.
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30 Book in 30 Days, #13: Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child by Maria T....
Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child by Maria T. Lennon Published in 2013 by HarperCollins ISBN: 978-0-06-229531-6 Reading time: 3h05 Rating: 3 Stars Another book in the journal/diary/confession...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #14: The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
How many I use have been behind that guy ordering a decaf-grande-in-a-venti-non-fat-with-whip-mocha and judged him for it? What would our favourite coffee drink say about us?
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30 Books in 30 Days, #15: For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
Because of the source of the plot, this book naturally brings up questions of caste, inheritance and inter-class love. Persuasion is, after all, primarily a love story. But the new setting asks us to...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #16: Soulless, the Manga Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger and REM
Alexia Tarabotti must deal not only with the Victorian shame of spinsterhood, but also with being a soulless spinster. Literally. She is a preternatural, a genetic counterbalance to the supernatural...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #17: Dear Blue Sky by Mary Sullivan
Cassie's interior conflicts are specific to her character but connected to the similar worries in the hearts of kids everywhere. It's said over and over, kids need to feel safe. In so many ways, in so...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #18: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Inspired by the life of a real silverback, Katherine Applegate has created a brilliant and heart-wrenching book of cruelty, friendship, and rescue.
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30 Books in 30 Days, #19: Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
hough Lida's story is fictional, children like her must to be forgotten, and better an imperfect telling of her tale than that one should not exist at all.
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30 Books in 30 Days, #20: Soulless, the Manga Vol. 2 by Gail Carriger and REM
I adore REM's rendering of Madame Lefoux!
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30 Books in 30 Days, #21: Grace by Elizabeth Scott
As always, Ellizabeth Scott doesn't shy from asking her audience tough questions.
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30 Books in 30 Days, #22: The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Naoki's book is an invaluable look into the mind of someone who still, as David Mitchell describes in his foreword, "still has one foot in childhood" and who is struggling to find a way to communicate...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #23: The Trolley Problem by Thomas Cathcart
The Trolley Problem approaches "The Trolley Problem" as a series of documents leading from and discussing the implications of the trial of one "Daphne Jones" of San Francisco, who flipped a switch on...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #24: Blue Bloods, The Graphic Novel by Melissa de la Cruz
The trend of vampires being more romantic than frightening continues.
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30 Books in 30 Days, #25: The Emperor’s Handbook by Marcus Aurelius
When a book was never intended for publication, it's strange to review is as we would a public declaration. The Meditations were the guidelines, or reminders, or musings that the Emperor of Rome,...
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30 Books in 30 Days, #26: Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
There's nothing like a re-read of a Georgette Heyer to make you smile. Unless it's a first read of a Georgette Heyer. But considering that the author is dead, you might parcel out your "new" Heyer's...
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