The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks - read it because I thought I might like to go see the movie. After reading, decided that's not going to be happening. Even for Nicholas Sparks, it was too over-the-top shmaltzy and way too predictable thanks to really clumsy foreshadowing (hey book, your plot twists are showing). The book uses third-person ( Read more... )

Cazet, Denys. Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon. DK Publishing, Inc., 1998. 48 pages. Tr. $12.99. ISBN 0-7894-2516-5

If you fly on a tractor, the place you land must be the moon. This is the logic of a cow, Moo, who convinces her friend Minnie to come on an adventure in Cazet’s easy reader Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon. Following the pattern of ( Read more... )