Here is a brief list of things that I enjoy more than I enjoyed this book: Getting my teeth cleaned. A colonoscopy. Going to the grocery store. Making three interesting & healthy bag lunches every day for my kids. Helping with math homework. Doing laundry. Driving on the beltway. Shoveling snow. Dusting. Vacuuming my car. Cleaning up confetti. Eating radishes. Here’s a list of what I did like about this book: Exploding whales. I did not like this book. I got it from some sort […]
I’m a sucker for a fabulous musical.
You guys, I was totally unprepared for this book. Like every other human, I had read The Fault in Our Stars and thought it was pretty good. Then I tried reading more John Green, and got Paper Towns. AND I HATED IT SO, SO MUCH. And that was the end of my John Green experiment. As for David Levithan, my only experience was his short story in My True Love Gave to Me. And I loathed that one. I didn’t have high hopes for this […]
Andrew Smith is my spirit animal.
My god. This book. This book is 400 pages of ridiculous, teenage boy bravado and sex. It’s hilarious and real and heartwarming. And then the next ten pages are tense and unnerving. And the last ten pages? They made me weep. I’m actually starting to tear up again just thinking about them. Last year, I read the outlandish Grasshopper Jungle. And I knew that Andrew Smith was a writer who understood HOW to write a teenage boy. It wasn’t just that he remembered being a teenage […]
I love these books. But, hey, what exactly was silver?
I know there’s been quite a difference of opinion on this series, but I’m going to side with Malin here. This is my favorite current series of books. I’m a little bit in love with them. A Vision in Silver is book three of Anne Bishop’s “Others” books, and they focus on Meg Corbyn, a young blood prophet who seeks shelters with the world’s “others”, the terra indigene, who were the first inhabitants of the earth. Way, way before humans. I enjoy reading about Meg’s interactions […]