Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is top ten: Books I Want Young People to Read This is a rather interesting topic – what books would I want to encourage young people to read? There are so many choices it’s actually going to be hard to limit it to just ten but I will give it my […]
Lois Duncan: Teen Thriller Writer Extraordinaire Lois Duncan was the writer of over a dozen teen thrillers that I adored reading when I was growing up. A writer whose life was marred by tragedy when, in a strange parallel to her own writing, her daughter Kaitlyn was murdered under mysterious circumstances. After this heart-breaking turn of events, Duncan turned away from writing fiction. She instead put her focus on finding her daughter’s […]
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is a Halloween Freebie so I’ve gone with: Top Ten Movies to Watch on Halloween Night I considered doing a Halloween books theme but I’ve kinda done that to death on here (check out these posts here, here, here, and here if you are so inclined) so I opted for Halloween-themed […]
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is top ten: Unique Book Titles: Bucking the Trends It can sometimes be an impossible task choosing between so many similar sounding titles so I find unusual or unique titles definitely stand head and shoulders above the rest. I love books with titles that go against the usual trends – I […]
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is top ten: Foody Books (or books with food on the cover) I really struggled with this post because I love to eat (mmm food) but I don’t read a lot of books that are about food or cooking books or anything along those lines. I finally settled on covers that […]