Ummmmm…this is a textbook. Wait! Don’t stop reading! Okay, okay, the textbook wasn’t SO AWESOME I had to review it. It was more like, “I’m reading this entire book for a class and damn right I’m gonna get credit on my CBR for it.” It kept me away from other books for EIGHT WEEKS for crying out loud. It’s not like I’m computer illiterate. I grew up in a house that always had at least one computer. I remember using DOS at my high school […]
Bad Boy and His Mama
This is a book from my guilty pleasure genre: true crime. It was a random pick from my work library (as it usually is). While there are many things unique to the case of Eric Napoletano, I’m not sure it’s the most interesting True Crime I’ve ever read. Napoletano had a close relationship with his mother, Carolyn. By close, I mean strangely close. Eric and Carolyn spoke several times a day and argued like brother and sister. When Eric was only 11, he met a […]
Twilight for Adults
“If there really were vampires, what would they do for a living?” That is a question that this book became the unexpected answer to, according to the author on her blog. As for me, although I’ve read that Harkness hasn’t read the popular YA series, I’d dare say this book could be considered a Twilight for adults. Compliment? Or criticism? You decide. But at its simplest, there are vampires, witches, and daemons. (If you’re not sure what a daemon is…think borderline insane, ADHD, wildly creative […]
If everyone belonged to only 1 of 5 categories, which would you be? NONE because that’s ridiculous.
Here’s the next big YA trilogy, the first book of which has already been released to the big screen. It has all the sexy elements a YA dystopian thriller needs to be successful…hot teenagers (going off of the movie trailer a bit on this one)…Ok, wait. Did I just say “hot teenagers”?!? Creepy. I’m way too old to be saying things like that. (I was going to put “waaaaaaaay too old” but no, I’m just “way” too old). Which brings me to my next point, […]