Here's what I read this month. But I wanted to try a new thing with these recap posts. I want to try blurbing them .... or in other words..... writing a very small description or reaction to them. Here goes.
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson: A shy-ish girl is sent on an adventure of a lifetime thanks to her dead aunt
The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner: Nerdy, but lovable, Tick gets some letters full of riddles and learns there's more to the world than he thought
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards: A family deals with a split second life-changing decision
Jinx by Meg Cabot: Jean comes to NY to live with her cousins and gets more than she bargained for
Dairy of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules by Jeff Kinney: Our friend Gregory deals with more junior high mishaps, but especially, his not-so-nice older brother
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer: How one family deals with the chaos of a major world disaster
Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier: Our heroine, Reason, learns more about her magical family in this 2nd book of a trilogy
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: An excellent pep talk for writers!
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold: After Susie dies, she watches how her family deals with their grief
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray: Life gets pretty "other worldly" when Gemma gets sent to boarding school in England
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert: A moving story about life in the infamous leper colony of Hawaii
Favorites: Moloka'i, The Lovely Bones and 13 Little Blue Envelopes
(Okay, so that blurbing thing may take some practice!)
War and Peace update: Now on page 337. Moving right along! ..... NOT :)
love the blurbs!
ReplyDeleteYou blow we away! I can't believe you read all those books. Yes, I can. James Dashner came to our book club last year! he was awesome. I also like your blurbs.
ReplyDeleteI can only read all these books because many of them are easy fast YA types.
ReplyDeleteI think the blurbing thing works very well!
ReplyDeleteI loved The Lovely Bones and Bird by Bird. Liked (but didn't love) Moloka'i. Didn't care to much for The Great and Terrible Beauty.
I read Lovely Bones a few years ago and loved it. I read Molokai last year and thought it was great.. a little long in the middle but very very good.
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