Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi I’m reading this on recommendation from my friend Marissa at Rae Gun. (She writes some great book posts, but also is a crafter and seamstress extraordinaire! Check out her blog.) This is another dystopian novel. I’m on a roll with this type of book this summer. Or maybe it’s just …
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs This is a strange, but good, book. The main character, Jacob, is trying to find out a secret about his grandfather. His grandpa recently died, but he left Jacob with some confusing clues. A letter. A bunch of old photos of very peculiar children – a …
Today’s was really hard for be because 1) I have a lot of favorite scenes and 2) I don’t actually own a lot of the books that my favorite scenes are from, so I can’t rewrite the scenes here for you. Sigh. So I’m going to share one of my many beloved scenes (from a …
The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. All my writer-type, literary friends are shaking their heads at me right now. I tried not to read them. I really did. I don’t like vampires. I haven’t read any other vampire books. They were so popular, too popular – I wanted to go against the grain and avoid them. …
So . . . I’ve read most of the Bible, but I don’t think I’ve read every single page. After paragraph after paragraph of rules about animal sacrifices in Leviticus, you tend to skip ahead to something more interesting. So, that’s probably officially the longest book I’ve ever read. The thing about the Bible is, …
