I (finally) just finished Mockingjay motivated less by the upcoming movie release and more by a competitive desire to finish the book before one of my thirteen-year-old students who said he was going to beat me. My maturity is boundless.

And as a lead in, I need to reference that sometime last year, while reviewing Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Raised ( Read more... )

So I spent the last two days reading Raised By Wolves and it's sequel, Trial By Fire by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and I am here to tell you that they are awesome. They have some genre busting, a deeply thought out social and cultural structure for werewolf packs, ladies kick ass, female friendships OF DIFFERENT KINDS. BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT ( Read more... )

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

I substitute for a lot of schools and often get booted to the school library when classroom sharing is going on. So early on I came up with a thing about completing books by going to different libraries, but not being allowed to check them out. Unfortunately, City of Bones got a huge surge of popularity when I ( Read more... )

There were some YA books in here too, but I'm procrastinating on writing them up so they'll come later.

The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler ( Read more... )

Ugh, I have some sort of death flu that the doctors cannot identify. After this, I think I'm going to stick to rereading for a bit, just so it will matter less when I pass out mid-word.

Mr. Darcy’s Dream by Elizabeth Aston ( Read more... )

I have decided to keep a log of the books I read, because I've been telling myself to do that for years and haven't actually done it since the sixth grade.

No spoilers, beyond whether I was disappointed or not.

The Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede ( Read more... )

I've started to keep a list of unintentionally ridiculous things that kids say so as to be a comfort to me on days when things do not go well. This list, at least the way things are going, is going to be INSANELY LONG ( Read more... )

Sci-fi books have been a part of my life for years, and I know that I read both Ender's Game and it's sequels (following both Ender and Bean) something like five years ago.  But reading something and listening to something always affect me in different ways, and listening to an audiobook with my family is even stranger, because you pay attention to ( Read more... )

     So I basically grew up on Madeleine L'Engle.  I think a lot of people get hooked into sci-fi that way, and I remember reading A Wrinkle In TIme in the fifth grade and trying to explain time travel to my parents.  Who, looking back, humored me quite believably.  But I've read most of her Austin/Murray/O'Keefe books, some of which hold up better ( Read more... )

Things that are currently awesome:

( Slumdog Millionaire )