Posted May 20, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by
Ransom Riggs Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1 Publisher: Quirk Books (2011)
Paperback (356 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Hollow City,
Library of Souls Also in this series: Hollow City,
Library of Souls Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
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Posted May 19, 2015 in Reading / 16 Comments
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Posted May 18, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Island of the Blue Dolphins by
Scott O'Dell Series: Island of the Blue Dolphins #1 Publisher: Laurel Leaf (1960)
Paperback (208 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
2015 Birthday Month,
2015 Color Coded,
2015 Re-Reading,
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In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.
This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building a shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
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Posted May 15, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.
Rules
- Grab a book, any book.
- Turn to page 56 (or 56% on ebook).
- Find any sentence that grabs you.
- Post it.
- Link it at Freda’s Voice.
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Posted May 14, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Beauty by
Robin McKinley Publisher: HarperCollins (1978)
Hardcover (247 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month,
2015 Fairytale Retelling,
2015 Re-Reading,
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A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father’s act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?
A gifted storyteller embellishes the classic tale, developing a new and very real world of her own in a love story that has all the wonder and magic of the fairy tale.
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