Books






Clockwork Prince Countdown

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The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Summary History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening as seen through the eyes of the young woman who was the inspiration behind one of Vermeer’s finest paintings. In seventeenth-century Delft, a strict social order reigns, dividing rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master […]


My Top 5 Recent Reads

Tigers Quest by Colleen Houck Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly Moloka’i by Alan Brennert Fever by Robin Cook I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore I hope that you will check some of them out. Also watch the movie for I Am Number Four. It was really well done.



Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

Review This was the most amazing and one of the saddest books which I have ever read. This was probably one of the most powerful too. It is up there with Night by Elie Wiesel.  In the story a 6 year old girl, Rachel, was diagnosed with leprosy. She is immediately quarantined and removed […]








Tall Story by Candy Gourlay

This was the other book Parenthetical and I  read for the Nerds Heart YA. Summary “Working through the many meanings of “tall story,” first-time author Gourlay slam-dunks this tale of a towering boy from the Philippines and the pint-size, basketball-crazy half sister with whom he has recently been reunited. Told […]






What To Read Next?

School’s out!! Summer is beckoning with long sunny days, warm starry nights, no homework and lots of time to read. And read. Need some suggestions? Thoughtfully NPR has done some that look interesting. Here. And if it gets too hot this might just be the best book. Snow……in summer.


Alex Rider Series #1-9 by Anthony Horowitz

From Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider Website – Click Here STORMBREAKER This was the book that introduced Alex Rider, the world’s most successful 14-year-old spy. Here he’s fighting Herod Sayle who has invented the amazing Stormbreaker computer. But there’s something nasty hidden in the software… POINT BLANC The second Alex adventure […]