I like a little of this & a lot of that : literary fiction, children's books, young adult, thrillers and mysteries, dystopian novels, sci-fi and fantasy.
I don't like horror or romance novels (how do you tell them apart?)
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Dear friends,
It's so cool when you set up your blog posts so that I can just click the heart button after reading your amazing post and not have to click on the title and then open another window and then look to the top and click the like button.
And also HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
for some reason my review disappeared. I'm working on another one.
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This was a difficult book for me to read. It is about abuse and captivity and being victimized. It drew me in and compelled to finish it but I don't know if I gained anything from the time I spent reading it.
I don't think it's really fair to rate it down because of the horrific content but I can't help it. It might read like a four star book but it's only getting three from me.
A Chapter Book for Children
What an adventure -- and a well characterized one at that! -- lots of folk to attach to and lots to dislike.
Overall rating -- excellent! Would have given 5 stars if it had included the end of the story --but since I did not know that it was a series and there was no hint given in the book that it was not stand-alone -- 4 stars!
Starting with book two is easy but now that I have read book one I highly recommend it. It may even be better than this one.
I have yet to read #3 but am highly anticipating it.
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This chapter book for children features feisty, intelligent Prue. She is searching for her baby brother who has been kidnapped by crows. Curse those evil crows!
A friend of hers, Curtis, invites himself along and together they enter the supposedly impassable wilderness of Wildwood where they meet a slew of crazy characters.
It's a good story, a lot of fun, AND has illustrations!
I read book two in this series, Under Wildwood, before I read this one. I didn't realize that it was a series when I read #2 and it didn't hurt the reading experience. I recommend both and have yet to read #3 but am highly anticipating it.
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This photo, called The Reader by Jennifer Zwick, captures the thrill and imagination of reading as a young girl. It is part of series of constructed narratives about growing up female.
Theodore Earl Butler (American, (1861-1936). Lili reading at the Butler house in Giverny, 1908.
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Not only have the BookLikes folks given us a group feature today -- they've also introduced a second venue for us to request additional features we would like to see.
If you check out/join the Official BookLikes Group, you'll see that there already is a discussion thread entitled Feature Requests. The rules are essentially the same as associated with the Make Your Wish post: Before you request something, try to find out whether it's already in the works (so circling back to "Make Your Wish" might be advisable, because Dawid and the BookLikes team have already responded to a number of requests directly there) -- give the BookLikes folks a chance to stay organized and on priority. Other than that ... seems we can just speak up to our hearts' content, just as a lot of us have already been doing in the comments section of "Make Your Wish."
Thank you, Dawid and BookLikes!
P.S. And whoever wants to reblog this, please feel free to do so ...
Reblogged from Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
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Set in Lapland and written in a beautifully still style, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, is an intriguing and easy read. To tell much about the story would be to give it away but it is very good at what it sets out to do.
(show spoiler)
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