Site Updates and News…including Twilight and yes, even Zombies

Hi everyone and sorry for my lack of postings the past month. A blog is only as good as its updates, and in this regard I have been sorely lacking. But I am back from vacation and starting my third (and final!) semester at library school and I am back at blogging. A few site [...]

Other Vamps on my Bookshelf (OR, what to read if Edward is not your soulmate)

The House of Night series , which is now 5 books long, follows the story of young vampire Zoey Redbird, an ordinary teenager in the first book, Marked, who suddenly finds herself going through growing pains beyond that of a normal teenager as she transforms into a vampire. The books are set in a alternate [...]

New on my Bookshelf…..

The Year We Disappeared: non-fiction father-daughter memoir from Cylin and John Busby that describes the year their family spent in hiding after a vicious attempted assassination on John, a police officer, by a suspect he was investigating. Filled with page-turning passages (“I could tell I was going to bleed to death before the EMTs arrived…”) [...]

On my bookshelf….

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Vol. 1, The Pox Party: written by YA author M.T. Anderson (who previously wrote the YA vampire novel, Thirsty), Octavian Nothing is a story of historical fiction set around the time of the American Revolution and it is about science, intelligence, experimentation and racial prejudice — a book that [...]