• Book Review: The Elite (The Selection #2)

    I just had to keep reading this series. Usually I read the first in a series and I either abandon it because I just feel the author will drag it endlessly or I wait a while before I read the…

  • Book Review: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2)

    I finally decided to read the second installment of the Red Queen series. Mostly I did it for my daughter. I considered the first one appropriate for her and she read it. We talked about it and I enjoyed hearing…

  • Graphic Novel Review: El Deafo

    My children got this award winning graphic novel by author/illustrator Cece Bell for Christmas from my brother and his wife. They usually are spot on with the books they get for my kids and when I saw my eight year…

  • Book Review: The Selection

    My thirteen year old niece recommended The Selection to me. I am beginning to go to her as a source of good book reading material because she also recommended the Water Fire Saga and I loved that series, too. The…

  • Book Review: The Princess Diarist

    I got this book in our family’s Christmas gift exchange this past December. We have now decided that buying a gift is not our favorite activity and instead have been experimenting with different gift exchanges. This year we did a…

  • Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time

    My husband read A Wrinkle in Time a while ago. We have had it in our library since I can remember. I had wanted to read it, but I always put other books before this one. When we moved to…

  • Book Review: Mistborn

    My husband recommended I read this book, Mistborn: The Final Empire. He was really adamant about it. I was forced to break my book reading sequence because he just wouldn’t stop urging me to read it. And so, I did.…

  • Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express

    In the back of my mind I remember watching this movie years ago. My parents are fans of Agatha Christie and when I was younger we would watch the movies they made together (Evil Under the Sun being my favorite…

  • Book Review: Handmaid’s Tale

    I had heard so much about the TV series based on this book that I just had to read it.  It is a very depressing post-apocalyptic book about something that, in my opinion, could definitely happen. That just made it…

  • Book Review: Wonder

    I have been wanting to read this book for the longest time. Well, at least since I began teaching 3rd grade back in 2014. The book cover is just so tempting. I had read the blurb in the back and…