Two Novels of Twelfth Night
As I have said in another post, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is not my favorite of his comedies, although it has its moments. The sword fight between Sir Andre Aguecheek and an inexperienced Viola disguised as a boy is quite hilarious. However, I always feel sorry for Malvolio, a character who is not really malevolent as [...]
Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein
I just finished reading this YA historical romance about a fictional lady in the court of Queen Elizabeth I who ends up being banished to Sir Walter Raleigh’s doomed colony on Roanoke Island, and today we read about the Roanoke Colony in our history book (Hakim’s History of the U.S, which I am finding to [...]
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Melody is eleven years old, and she’s just about the most intelligent kid in her elementary school. However, no one knows how smart Melody really is because she can’t speak. And she can’t walk. And she can’t write or hold a book or feed herself. Melody has CP, cerebral palsy. The entire story is told [...]
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Book #3 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 5 hours Pages: 475 Workers of the World Unite! Let the Games Begin! It’s The Sting (Robert Redford, Paul Newman) on steroids and inside/outside a computer game! Mr. Doctorow knows a lot about economics and about computers and computer games. I don’t know much [...]
The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan
Book #2 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 2.25 hours Pages: 345 Andrew Klavan takes a subtle dig at his own book in a paragraph near the middle of The Long Way Home, the second book in the Homelanders series of YA thrillers. “I missed Rick and Miler and Josh. I missed [...]
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Book #1 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 2.5 hours Pages: 378 So Countdown is a “documentary novel” taking place in the fall of 1962 near Andrews Air Force Base. Franny Chapman is in fifth grade, and she has a lot going on in her life. Her best friend Margie is suddenly [...]
Mother Reader’s 48-Hour Book Challenge
I waffled back and forth and over and under about whether or not to join in on Mother Reader’s 48-Hour Book Challenge. I can’t really participate for 48 hours during the time of the challenge, but I decided to start at 12:30 today, June 5th and finish on Monday morning for my own 43 1/2 [...]
The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
Doesn’t everyone like miniatures? Miniature furniture? Dollhouses? I had no idea that The Art Institute of Chicago had a collection called The Thorne Miniature Rooms: The 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms enable one to glimpse elements of European interiors from the late 13th century to the 1930s and American furnishings from the 17th century to the [...]
To Come and Go Like Magic by Katie Pickard Fawcett
To Come and Go Like Magic is a middle grade fiction title about wanderlust, about wanting to leave home and see the world and yet wanting to know that there will always be a home to return to. The story is written in short, vignette-style chapters, each one giving a glimpse into the life of [...]
Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell
I read an ARC of this YA/middle grade title, and I thought it was just OK. Gen’s family goes to a “frontier camp” for vacation, and they are expected to live like people in the 1890′s (ala PBS’s Frontier House, which the author acknowledges as inspiration at the end of the book). Unfortunately, Gen’s broken [...]
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