Written by: Libba Bray
I’m finally done with the second book in the Gemma Doyle trilogy. It’s not that I don’t like this series — I do. It’s just that there’s so much information to remember regarding its particular mythology and the books are really long, and I kept thinking about the City of… books…but at [...]
Archive for March, 2009
30 Mar
#21 – rebel angels
29 Mar
#20 – need
Written by: Carrie Jones
Recommended by: Kelly
So my love for all things supernatural (and YA) continues.
I kind of got a dejavu-ish feeling when I started reading it, because let’s face it, from now on, any time I read a book told from the first-person perspective of a happiness-challenged teenage girl who moves from a warm, vibrant [...]
28 Mar
#19 – city of glass
Written by: Cassandra Clare
I am so, so sad that I’m done with City of Glass, because it was the final book in Clare’s Mortal Instruments trilogy.
Sigh.
This series is astounding. When I was done reading Twilight, I immediately turned back to the first page and read it again before I even read New Moon.
I want to [...]
20 Mar
#18 – a great and terrible beauty
Written by: Libba Bray
Recommended by: Kelly (Who, as Janie said, can make just about anyone want to read just about anything)
I just can’t get enough of these supernatural YA books. I went straight from the 21st-century New York City portrayed in City of Bones and City of Ashes to a girls’ finishing school in Victorian [...]
16 Mar
#17 – city of ashes
Written by: Cassandra Clare
Every time I inhale a 400+ book in less than (a combined) 24 hours, I feel a little disoriented.
It makes sense, though, because in order for me to read so single-mindedly means that I have almost virtually been sucked into the world the author has created. In this case, it is modern-day [...]
16 Mar
who’s getting killed off?
Here’s what to expect death-wise as the current TV season draws to a close.
TV death chart: Who’s getting killed off?
Michael Ausiello, EW
Whether it’s because your favorite shows are trying to decrease their budgets or increase their buzz, they’re going to be bumping off characters in unprecedented numbers in the coming months. To prepare you for [...]
15 Mar
the fool’s folly
I like to have the last word.
I admit it.
It’s a pride thing, I’m sure, and it also has something to do with…well, no, it’s mainly just pride. I want to have the upper hand; I want the person to know that I’m right (or convince them I am even when I’m not); I don’t want [...]
14 Mar
#16 – city of bones
Written by: Cassandra Clare
Recommended by: Kelly
I read 150 pages yesterday and finished the remaining 335 today in between reading to the kids at Chick-fil-A, shopping at Whole Foods, and napping.
I haven’t been this captivated by a series since Harry Potter, Twilight notwithstanding.
I seem to have this habit of relating whatever I describe to something else, [...]
14 Mar
#15 – stolen
Written by: Kelley Armstrong
This was the second book in Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series. Like the first, I enjoyed it.
The premise is something that has popped up in various criminal procedurals/horror movies from time to time: rich sociopath with nothing better to do with his time kidnaps innocents, sets them loose in a huge [...]
12 Mar
‘glee’ful
Heh. Yeah, that was a bad pun. Sorry.
Anyway, I should’ve probably written about midseason programming before two of the midseason shows I was really excited about — Dollhouse and Castle — aired, but hey, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t procrastinate.
As I’ve said, I like Dollhouse. I like it more every week and hope [...]
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