Can you believe the first Harry Potter book is 21 years old?!? Harry would be in his 30’s by now! Hagrid would be in his 80’s! A baby could have been born when the first book came out and be able to drink today! I’m amazed at how timeless and magical the books still are. And even after my having read this one 3 times and seen the movie, there are still little treasures here and there that I discover each time. I love Rowling’s […]
…so much more than that.
There were 13 reviews posted of this book in CBR9. There isn’t much more I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said by all of those wonderful reviewers here. While my life experience could not be farther from Starr Carter’s, I’m thankful to Angie Thomas for giving me the opportunity to spend some time with her. The basic premise of the story has been discussed at length here and just about everywhere, so I’ll just list some of the things that will stay […]
You’re not allowed to cry. It’s one of the rules.
Few things are as satisfying as starting a book and realizing you’re going to sit there and read it straight through. It is such a wonderful moment where you know this is your life’s purpose for the next few hours and you can measure your next bit of existing by the number of pages the author has handed to you. It didn’t take me long to know I’d be with Aristotle and Dante and Sáenz until the last word. Ari is 15. He’s bored and miserable. […]
Powered Teenagers That Mess Up, Like Teenagers
Zeroes is a co-authored book that starts what will probably be a trilogy. I didn’t pay attention and didn’t realize that the book had three authors until I finished it and there were three author bios at the end of my kindle edition, and looking back I can kind of see the seams. That being said, the book is so very much in Westerfeld’s wheelhouse; so much so that the book constantly reminded me of his earlier Midnighters series. The book is about a group […]