Posted April 30, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments
Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Easter, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Monthly Wrap-Up, Rereading Challenge, Saints, School, Sister, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted April 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Raven Boys by
Maggie Stiefvater Series: The Raven Cycle #1 Publisher: Scholastic (2012)
Hardcover (416 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Scorpio Races,
The Dream Thieves Also in this series: The Dream Thieves,
Blue Lily, Lily Blue,
The Raven King Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
2015 What's In A Name?,
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“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
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Posted April 15, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Number the Stars by
Lois Lowry Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell (1989)
Paperback (137 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
2015 Re-Reading,
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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It’s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are “relocated”. Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen’s life.
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Tagged as 5 star, All Time Favorites, Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted March 31, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments
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Posted March 19, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Evermore by
Alyson Noel Series: The Immortals #1 Publisher: St Martin's Griffin (2009)
Paperback (301 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
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After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people’s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone’s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school — but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.
Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He’s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head – wielding a magic so intense, it’s as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she’s left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is – or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she’s falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.
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