Book Review: Among the Hidden
"I am a third child! I want to be treated like everyone else!" When I did my independent study at Iowa State University, the professor book talked Margaret Peterson Haddix's...
Jan 30, 2010 0 3 min read
shameless self-promotion
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in Purdue...
POC challenge
So since I last updated, a lot has happened. For one, I had a database crash, which means my first two reviews of the year were lost. (In summation: Everything Is Illuminated...
Favorite New Reads of 2009
So, last year I read 74 books, several of which were rereads. Here's a list of my favorite new reads of 2009, in neat little categories. Non-fiction 1-2-3 Magic: Effective...
Nostalgia: Sweet Valley Twins and Friends: The Magic Christmas
I am reading two very serious books (serious in different ways--one is an autobiography, another is just kind of hard to read), so to give myself a break on Christmas Eve, I...
Book Review: Once Was Lost
Right now I would love to have a personal message from God. I want to believe the way I used to, when my dad or mom or sometimes both would pray with me at night and I would...
Book Review: The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart
“I can’t do anything but try to stay out of trouble.” “Then how will you stay out of trouble, Ruby?” she asked me. “There must be something you can articulate.” I thought for a...
Book Review: Highway to Hell
I’m not much of a badass demon slayer. Superheroes always have a cool origin story, but not me. I’m not on a quest for vengeance or atonement. I’m not the chosen one. I’m...
Book Review: When You Reach Me
“Well, it’s simple to love someone,” she said. “But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.” That quote doesn't really encapsulate the main plot of When You Reach Me...