Book Review: How to Save a Life
If you don’t grow up to be a wife or a mother, what are you? A person alone, always wanting to be one thing or the other or both? My mother was never a wife, and that’s what she...
Dec 29, 2011 0 2 min read
Young Adult Lit
Audiobook Review: Howl’s Moving Castle
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows...
Audiobook Review: Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine is a reread for me, though the audiobook narrated by Eden Riegel is a brand new experience. It has been years--years!--since I've read EE. In...
Book Review: Alias Madame Doubtfire
"How dare you?" Miranda shook with rage. "How dare you deceive me like this, and arrange for my own children to deceive me? How dare you encourage them to collude with you in...
Audiobook Review: The Lost Hero
“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.” My daughter wanted me to read The Lost Hero...
Book Review: Shine, Coconut Moon
It dawns on me, clear as a summer sky, how wrapping a turban, speaking the language of your parents’ parents’ parents, and celebrating the same holidays that everyone before you...
Book Review: Love, Inc.
The only reason any of us got out of bed today was to plot revenge. It's quite a resuscitator. Love, Inc. by Yvonne Collins & Sandy Rideout is the story of three girls who...
Mini Reviews: September
September was not a great month for books for me. I read quite a few, but none made that big of an impression, so it was hard to get motivated to blog about them, especially when...
Audiobook Review: The Red Pyramid
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British Museum. The Red Pyramid is Book One of The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan's take on Egyptian mythology. Much...