Wow today is a busy day for book lovers! It is William Shakespeare’s birthday. Here (last year). And as if that isn’t enough today is World Book Night. Started in the UK last year it aims to encourage reading and the love of books (or as they say Spreading the love […]
Summary “Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven […]
Summary “After Michael’s parents die, he is invited to stay with his guardian in a desolate country house. He begins to suspect something is not quite right on the day he arrives when he spots a mysterious woman out in the frozen mists. But little can prepare him for the […]
Summary “A high-tension, high-tech thriller with an African setting. Jake and his sister, Kas, whose father is the British ambassador to Burkina Faso, are abducted, bundled into a van, and driven into the unknown. In smartphone contact with his father, Jake learns that the kidnapper with the spider web tattoo […]
Summary “Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What’s keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his […]
What happened to Pottermore? We were all so excited for this amazing website and it seems that it will not be opening any time soon to the general public. They have decided to leave it in Beta testing. What a bummer. To read more about this please click here to be re-directed […]
Summary “Perfect, picturesque Orchard Hill. It was the last thing Ally Ryan saw in the rearview mirror as her mother drove them out of town and away from the shame of the scandal her father caused when his hedge fund went south and practically bankrupted all their friends. Now, two […]
Not the way to read to your little ones. …”the kids a bit of a jerk”… But then again – we aren’t little. What a way to go to sleep. Enjoy!
This was extremely interesting. Not what I expected at all, and talk about sad. But what beautiful pictures. This is one of the first interactive graphic novels but they also do it in book form (which is what I read.) There is more I believe to the iPad, iPod, and iPhone version. […]
The world is changing extremely fast. So is reading material. Books are changing into e-books, and graphic novels are changing into….interactive graphic novels? Chopsticks is an interactive graphic novel compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. […]
So, I have decided that I need to start talking about Book Cover Art and sharing some lovely book covers, or talking about the covers of books which I read and enjoyed. I have done a post about book covers before – Here – with this jaw droppingly gorgeous cover for […]
Summary “Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight–she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as […]
Well I decided to choose another one of my favorite books. So this time I chose Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. I personally do not think this one was as good as the first book trailer I did but I found it hard to find some good pictures for a […]
A little indulgence for us book lovers. The joy of books – amazing! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8] And yes, this is a real bookstore!! You can find it in Toronto if you are ever there. They obviously are book people – and fun too!! http://www.typebooks.ca/ Type Books 883 Queen Street West, Toronto
While you are over at the Guardian checking out Cinder take a look at some suggestions for books set in a wintry landscape. In the Northern Hemisphere it is supposed to be winter. Except it isn’t really……except in Texas and Alaska. And Switzerland. And parts of Russia. Maybe northern Canada […]
Stuck for something to read? Having an attack of the reading blah’s? You can take a dip into Cinder by Marissa Meyer over at the Guardian (here) who have got the first chapter to read. Cinder is a take on the Cinderella story – except she is a cyborg. And it is […]
I received my gifts from my lovely Secret Santa and boy was I surprised. I received Tiger’s Voyage (which I am ecstatic about because I get to read it as much as I want), Everlost by Neal Shusterman, a great book bag from B&N, 4 beautiful book marks, and a […]
As we are now full swing in the season of gift giving do you find yourself running around crazily searching for the perfect gift? Well search no more. In line with the thinking that hand-made gifts are the best as they are creative, made with love, and so on…… Here […]
As you get older, you find few and fewer books which are ok for you to read that have anything to do with Christmas. They all seems to have pictures (not that there is something wrong picture books 😉 ) but sometimes you want something a little more challenging. Well […]
* Note: This book is an Advance Reading Copy and it will not be out until January 2012. Summary “A lot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles easily in eleven minutes. I once wrote an English essay in ten. No lie. And God knows Carson Levine […]
