Recent Posts Tagged With 'fiction'

• The Maze Runner ~ James Dashner

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 18:41 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: YA Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers 384 pages ISBN: 9780385737944 Take Lost, The Lord of the Flies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a little bit of Newsies and you’ll have Dashner’s The Maze Runner. This hodgepodge of theme...

• This One Is Mine ~ Maria Semple

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 19:44 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Little Brown and Company 289 pages ISBN: 9780316031165 Violet used to be something. She wrote for T.V. greats and made her snobbishly intellectual family proud. When she married mega music producer David Parry, she ...

• Eyes Like Stars ~ Lisa Mantchev

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 06:26 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Feiwel & Friends 352 pages ISBN: 9780312380960 “The weight of words is far heavier than water,” Ophelia said. “They would drag me to the bottom and hold me captive there.” As though to prove...

• The Time Machine ~ H. G. Wells

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 18:07 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Bantam Classics 128 pages ISBN: 9780553213515 So, last week your friend had a few gentlemen, all learned men, over for cocktails and conversation. He pulled some sort of elaborate parlor trick by which he made a trin...

• The Embers ~ Hyatt Bass

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 22:40 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Henry Holt & Company 287 pages ISBN: 9780805089943 There is something so beautiful about the dysfunction of family. It’s certainly not a warm and fuzzy something but it certainly makes for a pretty picture ...

• Envy ~ Anna Godberson

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 18:23 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins 405 pages 9780061345722   This review may make little sense to anyone who has not read the first two installments in Anna Godberson’s YA Luxe series. You’ve been warned. Also, th...

• A Study in Scarlet ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 05:50 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre:  Adult Mystery Publisher: Modern Library 160 pages ISBN: 9780812968545 A young doctor, a Watson, if I’m not mistaken, is returning from Afghanistan, war weary and a bit ill. He finds himself in London at the end of the 19th century, l...

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth ~ Carrie Ryan

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 10:40 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers 320 pages 9780385736824 Mary’s story is just another one of those time-honored, heart warming classics of coming of age, post apocalypse, amid flesh-eating zombies. Like ...

• The Big Over Easy ~ Jasper Fforde

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 20:40 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Penguin Books 383 pages ISBN: 9780143037231 There are dead end jobs and then there’s The Dead End Job. Years ago, the city of Reading’s Nursery Crime (yes, you read that right) Division was headed by the ...

• Rumors ~ Anna Godberson

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 19:34 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins 422 pages 9780061345715 I haven’t reviewed many books contained in series on the blog and find it incredibly hard. It’s almost like reviewing the middle of a book, right where the juicy part is but...

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 16:43 in fiction, book reviews

  Genre: Fiction Publisher: Dial Press 290 pages ISBN: 9780385341004 It’s 1946 and World War II is over in Europe but the ripple effect is still lashing wildly at the hearts and minds of the world. London author, Juliet Ashton, is on a rather r...

• BTT: Tear-Jerker

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 01:25 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  What’s the saddest book you’ve read recently? (Is any body getting bored with this series of “recent” questions? Because I’m having fun!) The last book (and I do mean very last as I finished it at 11:30 last night) I read was most likely ...

• Graceling ~ Kristin Cashore

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 22:29 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Graphia Books 480 pages ISBN: 9780547258300 The premise of The Graceling is interesting enough. In a mystical fantasy land of kings and castles, there are certain gifted people who possess talents and skills beyond imagi...

• Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 21:22 in fiction, young adult fiction

  Genre: YA fiction Publisher: Scholastic Press 400 pages ISBN: 9780439023498 You can’t play a player. Not when the player is your government with 75 years of sadistic oppression under its belt. Of course for every rule, be there a rule breaker. ...

• If I Stay ~ Gayle Forman

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 12:44 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Dutton Books 201 pages ISBN: 9780525421030 Imagine: You love your family. Your parents dig the Ramones and actually know what MTV is. They still jam with their old band mates and encourage your own expressive freedom. Th...

• An Abundance of Katherines ~ John Green

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 21:57 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Dutton Books 227pp. ISBN: 9780525476887 I made a discovery, recently, had a eureka moment, if you will (or even if you won’t). There are books that are for adults, books for teens and books for kids. For the most p...

• Inherent Vice ~ Thomas Pynchon

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 07:18 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Penguin Press 384 pages 9781594202247 Listen: if I wanted to reread Gravity’s Rainbow, I would reread Gravity’s Rainbow. I may start pulling my hair out if I keep reading (maybe I should stop reading) reviews askin...

• Glover’s Mistake ~ Nick Laird

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 22:39 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Viking Books 247 pages ISBN: 9780670020973 Books and stories have always sparked debate but the most perplexing “argument” to me is that one where “plot” is pitted against “character devel...

• Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire ~ Margot Berwin

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 14:47 in fiction, adult fiction

  Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Pantheon Books 266 pages ISBN: 9780307377845 Prissy, city business woman with failed relationship, embarks reluctantly on a journey,  finds life changing adventure and learns to unwind. It seems like I could describe...

• Stargirl ~ Jerry Spinelli

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 07:13 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 186 pages ISBN: 9780375822339 We are taught from an early age to use our inner censor. That is, we are taught to hold back, to close up, to shun those things that different. We don’t questio...

• The Fixer Upper ~ Mary Kay Andrews

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 08:44 in fiction, adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Publisher: Harper 432 pages ISBN: 9780060837389 Twenty-eight year old Dempsey Killebrew has just learned a hard lesson: the real reason people in power have assistants. One minute, Killebrew is a rising PR associate, Georgetown ...

• The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 18:26 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Scholastic Press 374 pages ISBN: 9780439023481 The government that was the United States has disintegrated, giving rise to a new patriarch regime, classist and oppressive to the core. The citizens of Panem have n...

• The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 08:04 in fiction, adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Putnam Adult 451 pages ISBN: 9780399155345 I am going to do something I never do. I am not going to summarize; I am simply going to give you the publisher’s blurb because I am only typing wi...

• The Magicians ~ Lev Grossman

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 13:33 in fiction, adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Publisher: Viking Books 416 pages ISBN: 9780670020553 Listen: I have to say something before I go any further in this review. The Magicians is not Harry Potter. I repeat: This is NOT Harry Potter. Imagine: You walk into class on...

• South of Broad ~ Pat Conroy

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 20:52 in fiction, book reviews, adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Publisher: Nan A. Talese 528 pages ISBN: 9780385413053 Fitzgerald, Irving and Joyce walk into a bar… Ok, maybe there’s no punch line, here, but part of me wants to picture all three men imparting elements of their own writin...

• Love Letter to Childhood: Puff the Magic Dragon ~ Peter Yarrow

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 10:17 in fiction, book reviews, young readers

  Shop Indie Bookstores One of my favorite songs in the entire world is also the song that unfailingly makes me cry. It has since before I was able to truly understand the meaning of it but now, I can’t hear the title without getting misty eyed. It�...

• The Girl Who Played with Fire ~ Stieg Larsson

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 07:08 in Thriller, fiction, book reviews, adult fiction, millenium trilogy

  Shop Indie Bookstores Nobody gets under Lisbeth Salander’s skin. No body. Well, just maybe that obnoxious, practical pig of a reporter, Mikael Blomkvist. As Larsson’s second installment of the Millennium trilogy opens, we find a reluctantly heart...

• Lock and Key ~ Sarah Dessen

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 08:21 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Speak 422 pages ISBN: 9780142414729 When the authorities find her, 17 year old Ruby is living in what can only be described as squalor. Her perpetually drunk and often abusive mother has lon...

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 20:07 in fiction, book reviews

  Shop Indie Bookstores Genre:  Thriller Publisher: Vintage Books USA 608 pages ISBN: 9780307454546 Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged financial journalist set on exposing the wicked underbelly of the banking elite, has just been slapped with a libel con...

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You ~ Peter Cameron

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 07:53 in fiction, book reviews, young adult fiction

  Shop Indie Bookstores Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Picador USA 229 pages ISBN: 9780312428167 When eighteen year old James Sveck announces that he will most likely be forgoing his upcoming entrance to Brown University to instead pursue a piece of l...