October 2008 Blog Posts (124)
Life After Genius Blog Tour over at Books by TJ Baff
Life After genius by M. Ann JacobyBook Description: Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he’s on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost…
ContinueAdded by Tamara Baff on October 26, 2008 at 6:49pm — No Comments
Reading Night World (No. 1) by L.J. Smith finished the first story Secret Vampire
Added by Kayla Nicole on October 26, 2008 at 1:51am — No Comments
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
This is the first novel I've read whose protagonist is, actually, a giant, and not in the fairy tale way. Truly Plaice (LOVE the name) is born huge and grows even more huge. Her early years are taut and miserable, living with an alcoholic father in a tiny town where being anything extreme is discouraged. Her older sister, a model of beauty and decorum, only serves to set Truly off as even more vast and unacceptable. As the years go by and things only seem to get harder,… Continue
Added by Corinne on October 26, 2008 at 12:59am — No Comments
Finally, more reviews!
Added by Allison on October 26, 2008 at 12:48am — No Comments
Review of The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
I've got my review posted here:
http://wendisbookcorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-19th-wife-by-david-ebershoff.html
If you have read it, let me know what you think, if you haven't, take a peak at the review and let me know how it… Continue
Added by Wendi Barker on October 26, 2008 at 12:32am — No Comments
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
Five years ago, after an exhaustive countrywide search, the Chicago Tribune announced Amy Dickinson as the next Ann Landers. They wanted a contemporary voice and they found it. Bracingly witty and honest, Amy’s voice is more Nora Ephron than Dear Abby. Readers love her for her brutal honesty, her small-town values, and for the fact that her motto is "I make the… Continue
Added by Tamara Baff on October 25, 2008 at 8:13pm — No Comments
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Obtained through Mini Book Expo
Format:Hardcover Published:September 9, 2008 Publisher:Penguin Group Canada From the Publisher From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary aboriginal life, full of the dangers and harsh… Continue
Added by Tamara Baff on October 25, 2008 at 8:11pm — No Comments
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Added by Sheree on October 25, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
Added by Dar S on October 24, 2008 at 4:07pm — No Comments
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Added by Dar S on October 24, 2008 at 4:06pm — No Comments
Listening...The Train...
Listening – just listening to idle chatter.
“Can he do a Liberace-like performance?”
“My remote doesn’t work. I keep having to get up to change the channel.”
“Cathy’s having a baby!”
“I’ll trade you two tight ends for your worst quarterback.”
“It’s so dark outside, I can’t see…Actually, maybe I am…”
Where? What’s going on? Possibly interesting chatter to those on the other end of the cell phone, but to those… Continue
Added by Tony Brand on October 23, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments
Lala Pipo by Hideo Okuda
Synopsis“This sleazy novel is not recommendable for ladies or gentlemen.”
So reads the jacket of the Japanese edition of this collection of six dark, interrelated, tragicomic chapters dealing with themes of desire, inadequacy, and failure, using the underbelly of sex… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:12pm — No Comments
Year Of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
SynopsisIn The Year of Secret Assignments, a tenth grade English teacher attempts to unite feuding schools by launching a pen-pal project. Best friends Cassie, Emily and Lydia initiate the correspondence, and are answered by Matthew, Charlie and Seb. Emily and Lydia are more… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:09pm — No Comments
King of Sword and Sky by CL Wilson
SynopsisKing of Sword and Sky is Book 3 of the Tairen Soul series. Returning to the Fading Lands with his Celierian truemate, Rain discovers a dissension among the most powerful members of his own council. As the Eld plot their next deadly strike, Ellysetta struggles to master her… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:06pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 1 - Legends In Exile
Fairy Tales have always been something I love, whether they are the classic Grimm stories or the more modern Disney versions. So when I heard about a graphic novel series featuring all of the classic fairy tale characters together in a place called FableTown, I knew I had to read… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:03pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 2 - Animal Farm
SynopsisCollecting FABLES #6-10, the second story arc of the fan-favourite, critically acclaimed VERTIGO series. Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm — and a conspiracy… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:58pm — No Comments
Book Review: A Jolly Good Fellow
Added by Shana @ Literarily on October 23, 2008 at 12:56pm — No Comments
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
SynopsisClay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:53pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 3 - Storybook Love
Volume 3 of Fables is structured a little differently from the first two. Instead of a single plot running throughout the novel, this volume features two single stories, one four parter and a two part story. But this doesn’t hurt the series in any way, in fact I found it almost impossible to put down. With… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:50pm — No Comments
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
SynopsisBod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:38pm — No Comments
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