When I was young, I adored nothing more than being given the creeps by a well written ghost story. As I grew older though, it became more and more difficult to be scared or un-nerved by a story, no matter how well written. So I resigned myself to the fact that clearly I had outgrown [...]
I have just returned from a wondrous and magical journey to The Kingdom Of Silk. Glenda Millard’s beautiful novels The Naming Of Tiskin Silk and Plum Puddings And Paper Moons, kept me so entranced that I read them both twice, back to back and then read them aloud to my children. I have often said [...]
This is genius… Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo. Typography Animation project for class Poem by Taylor Mali (www.TaylorMali.com)
One of the things I love most about Christmas Holidays is the fact that I get an unprecedented amount of time to read. Its wonderful. So I thought I might take a moment to share with you all which titles are keeping me up to the wee hours this holidays… Minutes ago I finished my [...]
Fall For Anything- Courtney Summers US Release Date December 21st 2010 AU Release Date March 21st 2011 This being my third experience with a Courtney Summers novel, I prepared myself well. I steeled myself. I made sure I was in a good place emotionally and mentally. I kid you not when I say I prepared [...]
Kayla is back with her latest review…this time for Lish McBride’s Hold Me Closer Necromancer. I think we would all agree, Kayla writes such great reviews, I may have to give the blog over to her full time! If there were an award for perfect combination of super-natural scary themes and the average teenage sense [...]
The always lovely, Miss Tegan gives us her last, but not least, guest review for this year…. At first I thought “Awesome, another werewolf book, this is going to be great!” And it was pretty good. It had the humor, and it was set from a thirteen year old’s point of view, so it was [...]
I will be honest with you, I had low expectations of this book. (Sincere apologies to Rebecca Lim- bear with me) Having never read any of Rebecca’s other novels, I had no clue what to expect from Mercy. I had preconceived ideas of how this novel might read and evolve, those preconceived ideas coming largely [...]
SHE’S BACK! The unstoppable Indiana brings us a new review… OMG!!!! This was the first book in a long time that I cried at least 3 times! This book is the most touching book I have read in a long time. It was so amazing! It took you through the poor peoples lives and what [...]
Most of you will remember a few months back when I blogged about making Book Trailers with Year 8 Corrie? (Reminder here) Since then, the making of Student Book Trailers has spread like wildfire through out the College and nearly ALL the resulting efforts have been OUTSTANDING. I been trying to post the new trailers [...]
