Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Reading much?

Yep! A lot! And mostly Young Adult books. Here is the list:
As always starting mid-series with Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. I read “Heaven to Betsy” and “Betsy in Spite of Herself”, “Betsy Was a Junior” and “Betsy and Joe" which are the books five, six, seven and eight in the series.
Betsy and all the other characters are delightful. The series is an educational look on how people were living a hundred years ago (exactly!), their life styles, concerns, morals and how they were interacting. I am hunting for the last two books of the series in the library.
Then the Mother Daughter Book Club series by Heather Vogel Frederick including: “The mother daughter book club”, “Much ado about Anne” and “Dear pen Pal”. A group of mismatched middle schooler in a New England small town start a book club with their mothers. In these three books, they go through “Little Women”, “Anne of Green Gables” and “Daddy Long Legs” and each book changes them and effects their personality.
A fun peaceful series.
And one not-such-a-great series by Liz Kessler: Emily Windsnap. “The tail of Emily Windsnap”, “Emily Windsnap and the monster form the Deep” and “Emily Windsnap and the castle in the mist”. Now this series is very simplistic and not only the plot is not well formed but the characters lack conviction and are very weak. I know the book is written for preteens but so are the other two series I mention before. And this one is a weak mishmash of mermaid fantasies without any attraction.
The grown up part of my brain is busy with “Kitty’s house of horror” (Kitty Norville, Book 7) by Carrie Vaughn.
Also parallel reading “Shades of Grey” by Jasper Fforde.
Wow, from YA to Urban Fantasy to Fforde? Something is wrong with me!

You're gonna laugh but another book I am leafing through is "Spanish for Dummies"!!!


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