My verdict: 3.5Glennon blogs on momastery.com and her brutally honest accounts of her life brought her popularity, then of course, a book deal. Glennon doesn’t give two hoots about what others think. She isn’t afraid to tell the world she was an alcoholic, a drug addict and a bulimic. And when she finally got rid of all…
Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
Title: Flight: A Novel Author: Sherman Alexie ASIN: B00FEZ25IQ My verdict: 5 stars Highly recommended! Ever wondered what’s it like to really walk in the shoes of others? In this book, Zits (an angry, lonely, 15 year-old half Native American, half Irish orphan), did. Influenced by his new-found friend, whose name is, coincidentally, JusTice, Zits…
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Title: The Phantom TollboothAuthor/Illustrator: Norton Juster/Jules FeifferISBN: 978-0-375-86903-7 In a nutshellThe Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy who was bored with life. ‘When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought…
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Title/Author: The Complete Persepolis/Marjane SatrapiPublisher: Pantheon Pages: 341ISBN: 978-0-375-71483-2 My verdict: 4/5In a nutshellPersepolis (Persia in Greek) is about the author’s life growing up as a child in Iran in the 1970s. Her memoir started from the time when she was 10, living and surviving a troubling time in her country. The Islamic Revolution took place and all females…
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Yep! I am back after a lengthy hiatus! Haha! So here’s my first 2014 review 🙂 My verdict: 4/5In a nutshell: This story revolves around the lives of two friends, Lily and Snow Flower, brought together by a matchmaker with a selfish intention. Their friendship, a very unique one in fact, is called Lao tong…
Freddie and the Fairy Post-Reading activities
I’ve reviewed this book before about 2 years ago. Click here for it. This time round, I’m adding an activity to complete the entire reading/literacy session which I did with a new group of children age 4 – 6 years old. Read-aloud: Identify the rhyming words with the children, while going back and forth to…
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
Title/Author: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons / Eric Litwin (writer), James Dean (illustrator)Publisher: HarperPages: 40 pagesISBN: 978-0-06-211058-9Ages: 4 – 7 In a nutshellPete the Cat wore his bright yellow new shirt which had four totally colorful, groovy buttons. But it fell off one by one! However, that didn’t bother Pete at all. He…
The Devil in The White City by Erik Larson
Title/Author: The Devil in The White City Publisher: Vintage Books Pages: 447 ISBN: 0-375-72560-1 In a nutshell Firstly, this is non-fiction. I bought thinking it was fiction! Silly me. Anyway, Larson combined tales of two very passionate men, who toiled (one of them, very surreptitiously) to achieve their ambitions, but both have one objective – to create history….
Books for my Niece
My niece has turned 4 months old and my sister wants to instill reading habits in her. She asked me what books are appropriate for an infant. Reading aloud to babies are very important, especially during infancy, not only because it can help instil reading habits, but also because at this stage, infants are very…
Decatur Book Fest 2012
It has been a loooonnnnggg while since this blog’s been updated…One of the reasons, well, I haven’t had any luck in reading a good book. I thought I’d have some luck with Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Fantasy), hoping it’d be as yummy as The Bartimaeus Trilogy, but I was wrong. I have problems finishing the last…
Hooked On Bookz 