January 2012
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Jan 5th
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“The misconception about children’s fiction is that it’s lightweight or fluffy....”
– Steven Moffat (via wafflesoutloud)
Jan 5th
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The circus arrives without warning...
The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern Well if you read my top ten books of 2011, you know that The Night Circus was/is one of my favorites. Morgenstern gets everything right. The Victorian/turn of the century setting is perfect for this story and the non-linear time sequence is playful. The visual imagery is stunning, the characters are endearing, and the plot is full of twists and turns that will...
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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My Top Ten Books of the Year
Wherein I give you 11 books because of a loophole. Here’s my Top Books of 2011 in no particular order: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor: If you can read even the first 20 pages without being pea green with envy and wishing you had written some of those sentences, you are either an idiot or a far better person than I. Delirium by Lauren Oliver: Oliver just shines when it comes...
Dec 30th
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Dec 27th
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“She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a...”
– Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan (via famousalmost)
Dec 27th
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Holidays, Why I'm an Absentee blogger this month,...
Happy Holidays Loves, I’m still readathon-ing so I’m a terrible blogger this month but my page count is well over 6000 now so yay for charity!  IN the meantime….. If Bancroft Press gets 100 new followers on the Bancroft Press Facebook page (www.facebook.com/bancroft.press) by January 1, they will reveal the title of the second book of the Young Inventors Guild trilogy.  The...
Dec 23rd
“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not...”
– Brandon Mull (via booksandnerds)
Dec 19th
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Dec 5th
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“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will...”
– Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid)
Dec 5th
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Barely Breathing
Sea- Heidi R Kling Sea was both heartbreaking, hopeful, and sweetly romantic. It’s topics of PTSD, natural disasters, charity, forgiveness, and rememberance of who you are in the face of loss are done really, really well. It’s easy to get swept up in the story of Sea, Spider, and Deni. Sienna is surprisingly easy to relate to as a character despite the particular instances of trauma...
Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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It's Not You, It's Me
Bloodlines-Richelle Mead Ok, I haven’t read the Vampire Academy books so it probably wasn’t a good idea to read Mead’s new Bloodlines books which take place in the same world. The world is an interesting one, but I think I’m just vamped out. I couldn’t relate to any of the characters and its not because they weren’t good. They were! I just need a break. What...
Dec 2nd
“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by...”
– RL Stine (via myquotelibrary)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their...”
– Lemony Snicket (via prettybooks)
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Bloodspell
Bloodspell-Amalie Howard Bloodspell had an interesting premise to start with—what if your blood was your enemy? What it didn’t do new is the vampire love interest and the danger of them being together. Been there, read that. I loved the idea behind Tori’s power and the history of where it came from. Howard has some great ideas and some strong writing. Apart from that I really...
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Nov 30th
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“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via -daydream-believer-)
Nov 29th
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Shatter Me
Shatter Me- Tahereh Mafi For me, there’s really nothing quite like a genius dystopian novel and Shatter Me is precisely that. It is full of hope and heat and bloody brilliant almost stream of consciousness style writing. I can honestly say that being in Juliette’s head was a privilege and adds a psychological element to the book. Her character development, complimented by that of...
Nov 29th
“Bea says the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that...”
–  The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (via iambivalent)
Nov 22nd
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“Here’s the thing, though…if you’re doing NaNoWriMo, you are a reader, because...”
– Maureen Johnson (via hahnasay)
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Reasons Why You Don't Bring Someone Back from the...
Cold Kiss- Amy Garvey The only thing I can say about Cold Kiss is that it was okay, which if you think about it, is actually disappointing. I found Garvey’s presentation of a different kind of zombie interesting but not revelatory. The female protagonist suffers from Scarlett O’Hara levels of procrastination and denial, yet without Scarlett’s pluck, energy or drive. The points...
Nov 17th
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Nov 15th
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“The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in...”
– Vartan Gregorian (via librarianista)
Nov 15th
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Nov 14th
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an...”
– Walter Cronkite (via jossarden)
Nov 14th
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Destined
 Destined (House of Night #9)- P.C. and Kristin Cast Destined is the 9th House of Night novel and it’s probably my favorite. I pretty much cried my way through this book from start to finish.  The HON crew is suffering from so much loss, from frustration at the machinations of Neferet and from the Council’s inaction, and as a reader you can’t help but suffer with them.  The...
Nov 14th
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The Hunger Games Official Trailer OMFG. I CANNOT EVEN.
Nov 14th
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via nosooner)
Nov 11th
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“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from...”
– Anne Fadiman (via bookstorecouture)
Nov 10th
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Not Your Average Secret Garden
The Poison Diaries- Maryrose Wood The Poison Diaries reads like an old Grimm Brother’s fairy tale, only you don’t get that sense of good triumphing evil at the end or at least, not yet.  With the Gothic monastic setting, the paranormal element, the romantic hero, and the damsel who finds herself in distress, the Poison Diaries was a perfectly creepy read for those looking for...
Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there...”
– The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (via allshallfade)
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
–  Albert Einstein (via inkgreenjellyfish)
Nov 8th
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Nov 8th
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Blind Dates and Other Disasters
 Blind Dates and Other Disasters- Ally Blake/ Fiona Harper/ Barbara Hannay The book contains three separate contemporary romance tales.  Based on the title and cover, I was expecting some funny reads.  What we got instead were standard romance reads. The first story by Ally Blake focuses on how we get in our own way. Holly and Jacob’s passion is evident on every page and they have the...
Nov 8th
Nov 7th
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,...”
– Barbara W. Tuchman (via livetoreadtolive)
Nov 7th
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Nov 4th
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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
– Sir Richard Steele (via justaquotebook)
Nov 4th
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Nov 3rd
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