Wednesday, June 8, 2011 “Never Slow Dance with a Zombie” by E. Van Lowe “Principal Taft’s 3 Simple Rules for Surviving a Zombie Uprising: Rule #1: While in the halls, walk slowly and wear a vacant expression on your face. Zombies won’t attack other zombies. Rule #2: Never travel alone. Move in packs. Follow the […]
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 “Paranormalcy” (#1) by Kiersten White “Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours. But Evie’s about to realize that […]
Saturday, May 14, 2011 “We’ll Always Have Summer” by Jenny Han (Summer, #3) +Giveaway! The conclusion to the Summer series by Jenny Han! Preceded by The Summer I Turned Pretty and It’s Not Summer Without You. I actually can’t post a summary for this because it will kind of completely spoil stuff. I can’t even […]
Saturday, June 4, 2011 “Aphrodite’s Blessings; Love Stories From the Greek Myths” by Clemence McLaren “If I were racing against someone as handsome as Milanion,” Filomena said, “I’d let him win… by just a little.” She gestured with thumb and index finger. Atalanta, princess, has been brought up to be an athlete. When her father […]
Sunday, May 1, 2011 Chicks with Sticks (It’s a Purl Thing) by Elizabeth Lenhard “Oooh, check out the badass knitter.” Tay laughed. “Keep her away from any spray-pant cans, you guys. She’s gonna start leaving tags in alleys.”Scottie straightened up suddenly.“You just gave me another idea,” she said.“Oh no,” Tay said, flinging her stripy scarf […]
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 “It’s Not Summer Without You” by Jenny Han (Summer, #2) “Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach?It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad […]
Friday, April 29, 2011 “The Summer I Turned Pretty” by Jenny Han “Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most […]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 “Hex Hall” by Rachel Hawkins “On her 12th birthday, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. Three bumpy years later, after a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she’s exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first […]
Saturday, March 19, 2011 “The Truth about Forever” by Sarah Dessen “Macy’s summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening […]
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 “It’s a Mall World After All” by Janette Rallison Chapter two of my dissertation: “You Can Meet All Sorts of Interesting People at the Mall.” Don’t talk to them though, as this just encourages them to talk back to you. Talking leads to trouble. Most wars, divorces, and political elections happen […]