Funday Friday
What do we like most? Books ✓ Stop Animation ✓ Paper arts✓ What do you get when you combine all three? A really wonderful video. Have a great weekend!!
Books
Why You Should Go Barefoot Today
Do you know what today is? No, we didn’t either. September is a month that is not really remarkable with events (if you exclude back to school, Labor day and several religious events). But hidden inside this month is quite a special day ~ September 22. It’s Hobbit Day! September […]
The Beauty of Old Books – continued
There are old books, and there are OLD BOOKS. Have you ever noticed how the old books look so interesting? and how they feel? The paper is different. The covers too. Have you noticed how new books feel? The covers have ink that leaves some sort of impression on your […]
The Beauty of Old Books
Books are a wonderful thing. They are fun to read, they are wonderful to hold, and they are interesting to look at. But unfortunately not that many people read books anymore. In 2007 (I know that is a long time a in the past but…) MSNBC did a poll to […]
Interesting-Book-Related-Thing Saturday
This person must really love their country.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Summary Wow! Dan Brown has created yet another enthralling novel. This is the second one in the series with Robert Langdon (Angel’s and Demons being the first.) In this thrilling book Robert Langdon is called in to decipher a code written on a dead mans body(!). The weird thing is […]
Interesting-Book-Related-Thing Saturday
The domino effect.
Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes
Summary *From School Library Journal Review on Amazon.com Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. […]
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Summary Robert Langdon is a symbologist and he has been sent some information that the secret society known as the Illuminati – a group devoted to science since the time of Galileo and condemning Catholicism since then too – is actually still in existence. When Max Kohler, director of CERN, calls him […]
Interesting-Book-Related-Thing Saturday
The first in an occasional series of weird and wacky bookcases or book related things. Try and top any of this. But how do you get to the books which are in the center of the circles?????????
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. [Post was updated October 2019] Summary “As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the […]
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee Summary When a local African American man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, Maycomb turns into a nasty little town. It is nasty for Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Calpurnia. Atticus, a white lawyer, is assigned to defend Mr. Robinson. And then, people […]
Warriors: Power of Three #4: Eclipse by Erin Hunter
Summary Life in the clans is normal. For now. When a stranger named Sol arrives to the ThunderClan territory they are nervous. He says he has some important news to share that is important for the clan. Leafpool and Jaypaw accept to listen to it because they are medicine cats. […]
The Reading Dahlathon
Guess what? It is almost September and that means that school is starting soon. Yeah, I know that you all are probably sad that the summer is almost over but your fun does not have to end just yet because September is Roald Dahl’s birthday. This means that there is […]
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan ~ Drawing by Peter ...
by Guest Blogger M.O.M. Every once in a while a book finds its way to you that is a surprise. A shock. You don’t expect the story to move in a particular direction. To do what it does. You are taken by surprise at how much emotion the book […]
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Summary Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris – the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister, Rosie, from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and a blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other […]
My Top Ten Must Read YA Books
I just thought that it would be nice to share my favorite YA books. Some of them might be a little over YA but YA goes up until 19 so here are the books. 1. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Click here to see the review. National Security Agency. NSA. […]
The Wizard of Oz
If you should find yourself on Google today you will see a lovely Google Doodle of “The Wizard of Oz” as they are rather oddly celebrating the 71st (why 71?) anniversary of the movie, which came out in 1939. It doesn’t seem that old, does it? And what a classic […]
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
THIS BOOK HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED AND OFFICIALLY COMES OUT OCTOBER 19TH 2010 Summary Calla Tor has always known what her destiny will be. She will become the Alpha Female of a werewolf pack. Her mate, Ren Laroche, was already decided. But she does agree that he is sexy. She, in […]
Just how many books are there in the world?
You would think that it would be impossible to count every single book in the world right? There must be a billion books that have been written over all of the ages. So you would think it would be impossible and if someone tried to do it, they would be […]
