After finishing this book I read the author’s notes and noticed she mentioned being inspired by Robin McKinley, and Patricia C. Wrede, and it really shows. If you enjoy the works of McKinley and Wrede you will surely enjoy this book. It has some of the light-hearted fun of “Dealing with Dragons” in the relations [...]

Yes, I know I am late on the Lovely Bones reading band wagon, as this was all the rage when I was in college. But I did finally get to it, and found I enjoyed it, I was in a crying mood, you know sometimes, against your better judgment you have a strong desire to [...]

I love anything by Shannon Hale, while this is not my favorite (that was would “Goose Girl”) it did not disapoint. I love how soothing her writing style is, not to say her books are not exciting, this one had a hint of magic (less than any of her other books really)but there were wars, [...]

Read in December, 2008

review:
I’m going to agree with the readers who said this book had a great concept, but fell flat with the writing style. A few reviews ago, someone said that the third person narrative made the story “detached” which might have been intentional, we are viewing the story the same way Janie [...]

My blog joined a league of zombies, yes it did. It’s some form of living dead. I saved my blog entries, but the blog re-set itself, but I saved this and I wanted to share it, mostly because it had me insanely happy. Last November I was checking my blog and noticed I had comments, [...]

“…I was proud, really proud of my mom not being afraid of failure. I am. I’d sooner not try than fail They might think I’m stupid, but I’m not. Knowing I’m not stupid is enough for me, I’m enough for me.”
-Page 12
Has Esme Raji Codell been reading my secret journals, because that could have came [...]

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Christmas came early this year:

Well, Hello here Mr. Macbook Pro. I’ve been a PC user for…well forever, other than my time setting up my brother’s powerbook, and going to the mac labs to shut down the computers when I worked [...]