My attendance at book club this year has been, for a variety of reasons involving schedules and mishaps and mayhem, spotty. But! those things have all cleared up, and now I am good to ride again, and so very happy about it, too. This month was an extra-special one that I didn't want to miss for … [Read more...]
Struts & Frets
I love music-themed books, especially when they talk a lot about music - this one does it very well. Struts & Fretsby Jon SkovronAmulet BooksISBN: 978 0 8109 4174 8This book is a few years old now (2009), but I liked it so much I wanted to share - and that only means that now you can get it more … [Read more...]
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage…
That's what we sang in the school yard along with kissing tag. That's some really scary schooling in romance. So what happens when it happens out of sequence? For me there was love and then marriage but no baby in that union, the baby came years later. There are all kinds of … [Read more...]
There Is No Dog.
Ever wonder who really runs this place? There Is No Dogby Meg RosoffDoubleday CanadaISBN: 978 0 385 66829 3What if the world is really this weird because it was created by a self-involved, disinterested teenager who went about it half-heartedly in the first place? This is the premise of Meg Rosoff's … [Read more...]
Where She Went
This teen novel of love and loss and reunion is well worth the read. Where She WentGayle FormanDuttonISBN: 978 0 525 42294 5Audience: teensAdam Wilde's band made it big on the album he wrote - he should be on top of the world. But he wrote it out of the pain of losing his girlfriend after she … [Read more...]