Coraline

This book appears to be well acclaimed critically, so I’m sorry to say that I was a little bored with it.  I didn’t dislike it, but nothing really held me in.  It’s only something like 160 pages, but it took me weeks to read it because I was just uninterested.  I didn’t care what happened next.  [...]

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Twilight & the BSC

I was shopping at Costco today and saw buckets of copies of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer sitting there, for less than $7.00, so I caved and bought it.  It seems like everyone is reading or has read this book, so I’ve sort of been waiting, but it was such a good price how could I [...]

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The Boleyn Inheritance

I had a slightly harder time reading this book than I did with The Other Boleyn Girl. The way the chapters were structured, going from Anne to Jane to Katherine, was kind of hard to get used to.  But really, for the way the story was told, it’s the only way to do it, because [...]

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The Other Boleyn Girl

The title of the book says it all, this is about the other Boleyn girl, the one nobody remembers much about.  Unless you’re a Tudor nerd and you already knew who Mary Boleyn was.  When the movie about this book came about, my boyfriend asked why it was called The Other Boleyn Girl and I [...]

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Once Upon a Time in the North

I had originally intended to read Lyra’s Oxford before reading this, but I couldn’t find it at my closest book store :/  One of the crap things about living in Utah is that I think there’s some anti Philip Pullman sentiment here, because of the whole atheist stuff I wrote about before. I did finally [...]

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Sweet Valley High!

I am now, embarrasingly, the proud owner of 78 SVH books!  Lord only knows when they will reach me, but pretty quickly I can start in on them!
Unlike the BSC or Sweet Valley Twins, I never owned any SVH.  I read a bunch of them, but all from the library, I’m pretty sure my parents [...]

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Out of Time, Into Love

AKA Halfway Down Paddy Lane…
The story on this one wasn’t horrible, but I found myself wishing there was more to it at the end.  It was just beginning to get really interesting and then boom, over.
And let’s discuss the cover…Kate looks fine I suppose, accurate to description.  I can only assume the man standing behind [...]

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His Dark Materials

Lest it be thought I haven’t been reading, I have, I swear.  Posting, that’s another matter, but reading has been happening.
About a week ago, I finished The Amber Spyglass, which is the final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy which is made up of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife as the first two [...]

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Historical Fiction Challenge

Although it is a little over a month late, I just learned about this challenge!  Basically the idea is you read 6 historical fiction books between April 1 and October 1, and fortunately for me, I am rather interested in reading several historical fiction books already.  More can be read about the challenge at:
http://readingwritingranting.blogspot.com/search/label/Historical%20Fiction%20Challenge
My possible [...]

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The Last Battle

Although this book was reasonably action packed and less boring than some of the others, I think it might have been my least favorite of the whole series.  From the start it just felt overly preachy, talking about a false Aslan, as though it would be a surprise later when no good comes of that.  [...]

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