I suppose my decision to read
The Life of Frado
When I started off reading this book, I thought it was going to be about the mother Mag’s journey with her mixed race daughter Frado.
Sally, I loved you ’til the end, but I still like you
On my second try reading Walden by Thoreau, I made it about a 1/4 of the way before giving up and desperately perusing my Kindle for anything else to read. That’s when I started reading The Adventures of Sally (1921) by P.G. Wodehouse. The Adventures of Sally was a book I’d picked up shortly after buying my Kindle, when I discovered the large number of free classics available on Amazon. I’d never heard of P.G. Wodehouse before but he had positive reviews and it’s hard […]
Running Mazes, Scorching Trials, and Curing Death. Of course it’s a YA trilogy!
Thomas wakes up one day to find himself in a field with other boys surrounding him. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Same as the others before him. He soon learns he is trapped in a maze and joins their quest to find a way out. This series starts as many YA series do. Strong, compelling, slightly twisted. But by book three, I find myself back to 2006, watching the third season of LOST – frusterated, confused, and […]
A Book About Satan’s Retirement? Well that Could be Interesting…
A graphic novel spin-off from Neil Gaiman
I Risked It This Week
This series grabbed me several years ago when I added the first title in the series, Found, to my library’s collection, so I was super excited when I saw that the sixth installment in The Missing series by Margaret Peterson Haddix was out. I quickly added it to a book order, and, of course, it was the first title from the order I grabbed to read. Risked begins with Jonah Skidmore and his sister Katherine doing some computer research trying to figure out which of […]