Author: Elizabeth Wein

{Review} Code Name Verity – Historical Fiction on WWII

Posted September 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Code Name Verity – Historical Fiction on WWIICode Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Series: Code Name Verity #1
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2012)
Hardcover (332 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.
When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

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August 2015 in Review

Posted August 30, 2015 in Life, Reading / 10 Comments

Things that Happened in August

  • I returned home from summer camp! It was a fun time but I am glad to be home.
  • I survived the days of smoke so thick I could not see more than a block ahead of me. When I went to drive into town, my vehicle put the auto-lights on because it thought it was night. It has never been this bad that I recall. Yay for the forest fires of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Canada.
  • I started school again. Back in the classroom with fifth and sixth grade students.
  • Speaking of being back in the classroom, I’m going to leave you with one very short sentence: I hate lice! (Thankfully I do not have any.)

Books I Read in August

Sponsa VerbiIntroduction to the Devout LifeWalking with JesusFire Study
An Ember in the AshesBecoming DarknessA Thousand Nights
ForswornSeraphinaCity of GlassCode Name Verity
 

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The Classics Club 50 Question Survey

Posted August 29, 2015 in Reading / 0 Comments

I decided to join the Classics Club. I have a list of 50 books here and will try to read them all by September 1, 2020. That makes it about 10 classics from my list every year. Why? Because I like classics and this will give me an incentive to read them. 🙂 Anyway, they have this 50 Question Survey on their website. I am going to answer some of them for you.

  1. Share a link to your club list.
    • My list can be found here.
  2. When did you join The Classics Club? How many titles have you read for the club? (We are SO CHECKING UP ON YOU! Nah. We’re just asking.) 🙂
    • I’m just joining the Classics Club now so I haven’t read any books for my list yet. 🙂
  3. What are you currently reading?
    • I am currently reading Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.
  4. What did you just finish reading and what did you think of it?
    • I just finished The City of Glass by Cassandra Clare and thought it was awesome. I will be posting a review of it later.
  5. What are you reading next? Why?
    • I will probably re-read Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier next because it is a library book.

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