Posted in audiobook, book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged audible, audiobook, fiction, Neil Gaiman, R.I.P. III Reading Challenge, The Graveyard Book, YA fiction on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction, Published 2008
Audible, Oct 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the [...]
Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged coraline, Neil Gaiman, R.I.P. III Reading Challenge, supernatural fiction, YA fiction on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
YA Supernatural Fiction, Published 2002
Read September 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her [...]
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged fiction, new moon, stephenie meyer, twilight, vampires, werewolves, YA fiction on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twilight Saga – Book 1
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
YA Fiction, Published 2005
Read: Emme-Sept. 2007, Mel-Oct. 2007
5/5
From the Cover:
About three things I was absolutely positive.
First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of him – and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and [...]
Posted in book review, books, from the shelves of mel, reviews, tagged eclipse, fiction, new moon, stephenie meyer, twilight, vampires, werewolves, YA fiction on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twilight Saga ~ Book 3
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
YA Fiction, Published 2007
Read: Emme -July 2008, Mel – Aug. 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is [...]
Posted in books, challenges, reviews, tagged childrens book week, e.l. konigsburg, fiction, from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler, initials reading challenge, newbery medal winners, YA fiction on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
YA Fiction, Originally published 1967
Newbery Medal Winner – 1968
Read May 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere – to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, [...]
