Category: Books
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Book Review: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Author: Charles Dickens Number of Pages: 480 Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1859 “After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer,…
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Book Review: WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE SUMMER
Author: Jenny Han Number of Pages: 291 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Release Date: April 1, 2011 “It’s been two years since Conrad told Belly to go with Jeremiah. She and Jeremiah have been inseparable ever since, even attending the same college– only, their relationship hasn’t exactly been the happily ever after Belly had…
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Book Review: IT’S NOT SUMMER WITHOUT YOU
Author: Jenny Han Number of Pages: 288 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Release Date: January 1, 2010 “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…
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Book Review: THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
Author: Jenny Han Number of Pages: 276 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Release Date: May 5, 2009 “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…
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Book Review: THE LIBERATION OF GABRIEL KING
Author: K.L. Going Number of Pages: 160 Publisher: Puffin Release Date: June 16, 2005 “Gabriel King was a born chicken. He’s afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. Gabe’s best friend, Frita Wilson, thinks Gabe needs some liberating from his fears. Frita knows something about being brave— she’s the only black…
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Book Review: IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? (AND OTHER CONCERNS)
Author: Mindy Kaling Number of Pages: 222 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: November 1, 2011 “Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers…
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Book Review: THE ROOK
Author: Daniel O’Malley Number of Pages: 512 Publisher: Back Bay Books Release Date: January 11, 2012 “Myfanwy Thomas awakes in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, her only hope of survival is to trust the instructions left in her pocket by her former self. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level…
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Book Review: OF NEPTUNE (with spoilers!!)
WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!! If you’d like to read my review of the first book in this trilogy, Of Poseidon, click here. If you’d like to read my review of the second book in this trilogy, Of Triton, click here. Author: Anna Banks Number of Pages: 336 Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Release Date: May 1, 2014 “Emma and Galen’s kingdom and their…
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dnf: DAIRY QUEEN
Author: Catherine Gilbert Murdock Number of Pages: 274 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: April 30, 2006 “When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right. When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff…
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