Book Specs Author: Patrick Ness Publisher: Candlewick Press Publishing Date: 2013 Number of Pages: 205 pages Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Children’s Literature Synopsis The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting, the one from the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her […]
Tag: Young Adult Fiction
Book Review # 63: Thirteen Reasons Why
Book Specs Author: Jay Asher Publisher: Razorbill Publishing Date: 2007 Number of Pages: 288 Genre: Young Adult Fiction Synopsis “You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret…… is to press play. Clay Jensen doesn’t want anything to do with the tapes Hannah Baker made. Hannah is […]
Book Review # 52: Call Me By Your Name
Book Specs Author: Andre Aciman Publisher: Picador Publishing Date: 2018 Number of Pages: 248 Genre: Romance, Young Adult Fiction Synopsis “Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the […]
Book Review # 51: The Book Thief
Book Specs Author: Markus Zusak Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Date: March 2016 Number of Pages: 550 Genre: Historical, Young Adult Synopsis “It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger finds her life changed when she unearths a single object […]
Book Review # 29: Why We Broke Up
Book Specs Author: Daniel Handler Art by: Maira Kalman Publisher: Little Brown and Company Publishing Date: December 2011 Number of Pages: 354 Genre: Young Adult, Romance Synopsis This is the box, Ed. Inside is everything. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket from Greta in the Wild, a note from you, a box of matches, your […]
My 2017 Not-So Favorite Books
2017 has drawn to a close and it is now time to look back to the year that was. Overall, 2017 was a slow year compared to prior years. Nonetheless, I was still able to find time to gobble up some wonderful books. This book wrap up is a part of a mini-series which will […]
Quotable Quotes # 7: Turtles All The Way Down
Here are some of the memorable lines from John Green’s latest novel, All The Way Down. Haven’t read my thoughts on his work yet? Click here. “We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn’t matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more […]
Book Review # 16: Turtles All The Way Down
Book Specs Author: John Green Publisher: Dutton Books Publishing Date: 2017 Number of Pages: 286 Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Romance Synopsis Sixteen-year old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the […]
Book Review # 11: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Book I of Walking Chaos Trilogy)
Book Specs Author: Patrick Ness Publisher: Walker Books Publishing Date: 2008 Number of Pages: 479 Genre: Dystopian, Young Adult, Contemporary Synopsis Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then, just one month away from the birthday that […]
Book Haul: July 2017
Title: Midnight’s Children Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Penguin Books Publishing Date: 1991 No. of Pages: 533 Accolades: 1981 Man Booker Prize Winner Synopsis: “Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru […]
