Holly Michele's Blog Posts Tagged 'Warner' (5)

I was at my favorite bookstore "Gottewals Books" and I bought two books. One is the Stephen Baldwin book "The Unusual Suspect" and the other is an Alice Hoffman book titled "Second Nature". I am notorious for reading more than one book at a time and so I began reading Mr. Balwin's book first but later picked up the… Continue

I have never read Mary Stewart's books but I loved the Disney movie based on one of her books. It starred Haley Mills and was given the same title as the book, "The Moon-Spinners". Below is a list of her books that I believe I could get into and will like. I went on Amazon and read a couple of pages of each. I don't want to get too ambitious so I only listed four books. I did complete my 2009 reading list but I have not posted reviews of the books on this blog....yet!…



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Stephanie Meyers Twilight Series:

• Twilight: 2 Peaches
• Eclipse: 3 Peaches
• New Moon: 4 Peaches
• Breaking Dawn: Hmmm, I liked some parts of it and others I was kinda "Nah!" on. It is an overall pretty good book, so I will give it 3 1/1 Peaches.

• The Constant Princess: 4 Peaches
• * see my blog for review.

• Life of Pi: 4 Peaches
• * see my blog for…

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"The Constant Princess", it is about Kathryn of Aragon in her younger years and tells the tale of how she became queen of England by marrying Henry VIII. For those of you not familiar with Henry the VIII and his wives, she was the first. They were married for over 20 years and she was bullied and pushed off the throne by Henry and his mistress Anne Boleyn. That is… Continue

If you are looking for a book with a group of eclectic characters and a dual ending... then this is the book for you.



The main character who narrates the story is Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel. He is from the former French Colony of Pondicherry in India. He is named after a swimming pool center and finds that many people pronounce his fist name is "Pissin". This of course causes him to be teased but also forces him to inventive about how to deal with the problem of being bullied over… Continue