Friday, March 12th, 2010

About the Book
Emma Morley and Dexter Meyhew, meet properly for the first time on the 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation from University.
We meet them again, on the same day each year for the next twenty years.
Each chapter of the book, covers Emma and Dexter’s lives on that day, following their lives, [...]

AKA: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
About the Book
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts.They were also one another’s only friend.So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she’s lost the only person who will ever understand her.Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed.Known as Jenna, she’s popular, [...]

Little Peggy was very careful with the eggs.
Set in an alternate version of 19th Century America, Seventh Son, follows the story of Alvin Miller Jr, a ten year old boy (and the titular Seventh Son (of a Seventh Son)). The America in which Alvin lives is one coloured by the folk magic and lore of [...]

Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse I saw the dead guy standing next to my locker.
Synopsis
When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. [...]

I don’t know what I am doing here.
It’s no secret to anyone who has read this blog in the last year, just how much I enjoyed John Marsden’s, The Tomorrow Series. So when I saw this one sitting on the shelves of my local Oxfam, for only 49p! How could I resist?
So Much [...]

Us, Engineering A Josh**

Considering how much I enjoyed Looking for Alaska I can’t explain why it took me five months to pick, this, his second book of of my shelves.
But, this week encouraged by Dewey’s Book Reading Challenge I finally slipped it off the shelves, and settled down to read it.
Colin Singleton, a washed-up child [...]

Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books…

Featuring a series of letters between a struggling New York writer, and a reserved bookseller, working at Marks & Co of London. What starts as a mere request for certain hard to obtain books, develops into a friendship [...]

When Ian came into Kerry’s room to ask a favour, it never occurred to her that her four-year-old brother could ask her to do something that might get her killed.

I came across this one whilst searching out reads for the Mythopoeic Awards Challenge and I spotted Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde.
Now, I had [...]

Following the success of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have collaborated once more this time on Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List.
Best friends since childhood, Naomi and Ely live across the hall from each other, were each other’s first kiss, they share clothes, they helped each other though their [...]

Well, I seem to be on a bit of a graphic novel kick at the moment, so much so that I think I should probably sign up for the Graphic Novel Challenge!
Came across this one late last week, when I checked in at my local bookshop to reserve a copy of Breaking Dawn, which wasn’t [...]

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