“Take my hand…”
Ankle deep in water, Liam O’Connor is trying to make passageway the passageway is clear of passengers, when he comes across Foster. The man gives him a choice to stay and die, or to leave and live. Moments after Liam takes the man’s hand, the ship breaks in half, and the Titanic begins [...]

A slightly odd one this. It should come as no surprise to you that I’m a fan of Mr Marsden’s writing, and his writing in this is up to his usual standard. Moving, and as thought provoking as ever.
And if a moving story is the purpose of the book it does so brilliantly. But, [...]

This was my second book by Douglas Coupland (the first being Hey Nostradamus!) and he’s well on the way to being a favourite author.
One of the things I’ve already learned about his writing, is that the story he telling you, isn’t necessarily the one you think you are reading. It’s only when you’ve finished the [...]

“That was an effing brilliant read.  Only I don’t say ‘effing’ do I?”

Sorry you’re not going to get a synopsis with this one, no way, no how. The only way to go into this one is blind, folks. So I’m just going to talk about the experience of reading it.
…Not that I could sum up [...]

[spoiler free]
After winning the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen might have hoped for a quieter life, but you don’t defy the Capitol never mind as publicly as she and Peeta Mellark did and get away with it.
At first she thinks she might just have to do as she is told, but when Katniss learns of possible [...]

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds”

About the Book
“Special Circumstances”

The words have sent chills down Tally’s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor — frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live [...]

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, I

About the Book
Tally has finally become ‘pretty’. Her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend’s gorgeous, and she’s completely popular.
It’s everything she’s ever wanted. But beneath all the fun – the nonstop parties, [...]

Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people? – Yang Yuan, quoted in The New York Times

About the Book
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly [...]

Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel is the third in the Airborn series.
About the Book
At the start of Starclimber, the third book in the best-selling, award-winning Airborn series, sees Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries in Paris. is studying biology at the Sorbonne, whilst Matt is spending his summer working on The Celestial Tower, France’s attempt to [...]

It was like one of those lists on the radio to let you know which schools were having snow days. Only instead of it being school districts in the area, it was whole cities, and it wasn’t just snow.
About the Book
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the Moon [...]