I went to the movies with my friends this weekend. I got to the theater late, so I didn’t even get to vote on the movie. We saw Mamma Mia 2.
Spoiler-Free Review: Once was Lost
by Sara Zarr
“I wonder how you’re supposed to know the exact moment when there’s no more hope.”
Samara Taylor lives in a quiet little town with her loving, happily married, mother and father. It’s a perfect life! At least that’s what everyone thinks.
Spoiler-Free Review: The City of Ember
“There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It’s not just outside”
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Welcome
I’m a librarian with a book blog (I know, how original right?) I’m a nerd who just wants to blog about books, comics, and other stuff.
I must confess, I am guilty of many snotty literature crimes: I like YA novels, I like comics, not graphic novels mind you, I actually have a pull-list at a comic book store (#movetheneddle), but my biggest crime: I think Steven King is overrated.
I’m weird, I know it. I’m somewhere between geek and book nerd, I keep my comics in Dewey Decimal order.
I’m the odd librarian out.
Spoiler-Free Review: Heartless
“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
What made the Queen of Hearts so heartless? What made an innocent girl into the cruel, head chopping lunatic from Lewis Carroll’s novel? Continue reading
Spoiler-Free Review: The Rest of us Just Live Here
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world”
Some kids are special, the saviors of the world. . . and the rest of us just live here.
Is Gone with the Wind Really as Racist as Everyone Says?
Mostly- Spoiler-Free Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Author: Carrie Ryan
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”
Over a generation after the zombie apocalypse, life carries on. Mary’s village is surrounded by fences to keep the zombies out. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t danger’s within. . .
Beauty with a Brain: What Does Charcoal Do?
What exactly does charcoal do for your skin? Every beauty product these days seams to brag about having charcoal in it, but what does it do?
Spoiler-Free Review: Zeros
by Scott Westerfield, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti
“What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.”
