Avalon High by Meg Cabot

Book: Avalon High by Meg Cabot

Genre: YA

Rating: B+

So I went to the library on Friday evening with my 15 year old daughter, JJ, and she was picking out last minute stuff for school. I happened upon the Meg Cabot section and just had to get one, just for the heck of it. I must have been in a Meg Cabot kind of mood, something quick, light, fun and easy. I ended up with this one about a new girl at this high school and the crazy story she gets mixed up in that sounds A LOT like the King Arthur story! Anything to do with King Arthur is great, right?! Anyway, it was a fun weekend splurge!

Wordless Wednesday: Babies on the Farm

A Review: The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

Book: The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

Genre: Literary Fiction

Rating: A

I've had this book hanging around forever and therefore, it ended up on my TBR Challenge list. It turned out to be one of those books that I wonder why it took me so long to get it. I loved it! I loved the story about the past and the present connecting in a mysterious way. I loved learning about the history of this little corner of France. I loved the characters and felt their pain. Needless to say, I'm glad I finally picked it up and actually read it!

My "Something About Me" Book List

I've finally come up with the following books for the Something About Me Challenge. Not easy! I always struggle with deciding whether to pick books I’ve read already, or picking ones I WANT to read... so I did a little of both.

My List of "Something About Me" Books:

The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini. My other consuming hobby, after reading, is quilting. I’m not very good at it, but it sure is fun to do! This book is the first in a series called The Elm Creek Quilters Series, and my friend seems to love them, so I’ve been wanting to give them a try.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. No one else has listed this book yet have they? I admit, I’ve been swept up (or should I say sucked into? LOL!) in the whole Twilight books thing! I love them! I love teen romance stories! I love Stephenie’s style! I hope to write like her some day. (In my dreams...) I’m also finding that I’ve been increasingly attracted to the whole vampire genre and I’m really anxious to read some more books like this.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I couldn’t list books about me without some kind of Victorian era classic. It’s truly my favorite genre. I picked this one because it’s about time I re-read it and because there’s just something about this one that gets to me. Something about doomed romance and haunted characters, and ghosts and all that good deep stuff.

Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald. Being from Utah, I find it funny that I’ve never read this book, written by the author of Great Brain fame. I’ve heard it’s wonderfully funny and that fans of the Little House series (I’m thinking that’s many of us) love it. It’s non-fiction but I think loosely based on his family stories.

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. Twice a year, I run the book fair at the elementary school. Often, I’ll read some of the book fair books and then talk them up. Last time, after talking about several books, a student raised her hand and said, "Did you read anything that WASN’T fantasy?" I realized that I hadn’t! I love YA fantasy and so I’ve picked this one because it’s been on my list forever to get to and maybe this will help me to finally do it! (Yes I know I’m supposed to read the books on everyone else’ list, but I figured I could read stuff on mine too!)

Anyway, so there you have it! Hopefully these books say a little bit about me!

A Review: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Book: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiement by James Patterson

Genre: YA SF/Fantasy

Rating: A-

I needed a book like this right about now; something fast, easy and fun! I read this book in a couple of days and am now on the lookout for the sequel. The story is about 6 kids that have been genetically inhanced so they can fly, along with many other powers. They are living on their own but trying to figure out where they came from and who their families are. In the meantime they have to keep escaping from the bad guys, Erasers, who are wolf men. And there's something about saving the world (reminds me of Heros) but we haven't been told much about that yet! Fun stuff!

Booking Through Thursday: R.I.P.

Booking Through Thursday

No, not THAT kind of R.I.P.

Reading. In. Public.

Do you do it? Why or why not?

Yes, of course I do!!! However, sometimes I get distracted doing some good people watching. I'm more distracted by that then by noise (like TV, blasting music, screaming kids) at home. Reading at the dr. is hard for me sometimes because usually I'm too nervous. But I do read while waiting for kids' lessons, at the pool, at the park, on the plane, etc.

Wordless Wednesday

Watermelon sculptures at the midnight buffet on our recent cruise.