Check the Shelf Book Review: Spellcaster

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray | Website | Twitter Read by Khristine Hvam Publisher/Year: HarperTeen | March 5, 2013 Pages: 400 Audiobook Publisher: Harper Audio Time: 11 hours 9 min Series: Spellcaster Book 1 Genre: YA Paranormal Format: Audiobook Source: Borrowed from Overdrive Amazon | Goodreads     Summary (From Goodreads) When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s …

Bookish Belongings: Stocking Stuffers

    With Christmas one it’s way, I thought I’d make a list of stocking suffers.  Here’s some things I wouldn’t mind finding in mine. Matilda Mug Book Earrings Banned Books Sock   Library Card Stocks A Kiss Keychain Harry Potter Tights Gloves Book Tape Library Embosser Bookish Candles Exact Bookmark

NaNoWriMo 2014

This year I participated in National Novel Writing Month otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, and I won.  For the first time, I succeeded at writing 50,000 words of a novel in one Month.  Yes, it is as crazy as it sounds, and there were moments that I didn’t think I would have any ideas, and even some moments …

Review: The Willoughbys

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry | Website Publisher/Year: Houghton Mifflin Company | March 31, 2008 Pages: 176 Series: Standalone Genre: Upper Elementary Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, …

Review: Alligent

Alligent by Veronica Roth | Website | Twitter | Publisher/Year: Katherine Tegen Books | October 22, 2013 Pages: 544 Series: Book three of the Divergent series Genre: YA Dystopian Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads     Summary (From Goodreads) The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered–fractured by violence and power …

Saturday Stories

I was inspired be a writing challenge: one sentence stories. So here’s three I came up with. Let me know what you think. ~I looked and saw my next door neighbor standing outside my window, on the second story of my house. ~You could cut the darkness with a knife, and when Susie did, there …

Be Kind Please Rewind: November

  I don’t even think I remember most of the month of November, so this may be a challenge but here are my top three: 1)  I joined in with NaNoWriMo this year.  I haven’t done this officially since 2009, but I decided to give it a go this year.  Two days into it, I trashed …

Recently Reread: City of Light City of Dark

City of Light City of Dark by AVI Illustrator:  Brian Floca Publisher/Year: Scholastic, Inc | 1993 Pages: 192 Series: Stand Alone Genre: Middle Grade, Graphic Novel Format: Paperback Source: Owned Amazon | Goodreads Summery (From Amazon) Complications abound in a graphic novel related in brief narrative boxes plus dialogue (some of it in both Spanish …