(Note: This recommendation was first published in September of 2013. You can see the original version here.) Let me start this off with a disclaimer: It's been a few years since I last read Pure, by Julianna Baggott. It's a testament to the book, however, that I still remember it well enough to write this... Continue Reading →
Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes is a novel I've read multiple times. It's also a novel I enjoy every time I read it, for a few different reasons. Yes, one of those reasons is that I always seem to forget the details. That, however, is not what keeps me coming back.
I'm not a big fan of horror movies; they tend to put me too on-edge, make me too jumpy. And yet, I'm somehow pulled to them. I want to know what they're about and how they turn out. Especially if they have a really great trailer. IT is one of the most recent examples. The... Continue Reading →
Panic, by Lauren Oliver, is one of those books I kept meaning to get to. It had been sitting on one of my bookshelves for months before I did, and not for any fault of its own. I just never seemed to be in quite the right mood to read it. Finally, about a month... Continue Reading →
I can't remember what initially led me to The Truth About Alice, by Jennifer Mathieu. I may have read a review somewhere, or maybe I just came across it while browsing through a bookstore. What I do remember is that I fell in love with that cover as soon as I saw it. There's something... Continue Reading →
Miranda Burski 