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30 Day Book Challenge – Day Four: A Guilty Pleasure Book
I have returned from the horrible world of University Essay Land! I should have thought more about starting one of these 30 Day Book Challenges right before the beginning of Essay Season, but I guess ...
Day 9: Book That Made You Ill
What an ambiguous topic. What does that even mean? I have yet to encounter a book so bad it makes me throw my guts up upon contact, but I am sure there is one out there. I dread the day I find that bo...
Day 8: A Book That Scared You
He poisons their dog, tries to sniper their son, loosens the bolts on their tires, and somehow manages to stay outside the law. I am not a fan of scary things. I dislike scary movies, and generally do...
30 Day Book Challenge – Day Three: Your Favourite Series
This question is a hard one for me to answer. It’s impossible for me to settle on a single series because I keep coming up with other series’ that I like. So instead of talking about one t...
Day 7: A Book You Can Quote
The society was also fairly corrupt, if memory serves. I remember hallucinogenic drugs, and of course, there was a basilisk thrown in there, maybe meant to destroy the world? I have a very small memor...
Day 6: Favorite Young Adult Book
If you have not read it already, I urge you, for the sake of your sanity, don’t read it. I don’t think that I had a favourite young adult book in a very long time. Whatever it used to be, I’d forgotte...
Day 5: Book You Wish You Could Live In
How much would it suck if Harry Potter were actually real, but you’re just another non-believing, non-seeing muggle? A book that I could live in was far harder than I thought. I’m sure there are have ...
30 Day Book Challenge – Day Two: A Book You Have Read More Than Three Times
It’s always great when you are able to find a book that you can read over and over again without it getting old. The one book that I never get sick of reading has to be Chris Wooding’s Poi...
30 Day Book Challenge – Day One: Best Book You Read Last Year
A new website calls for a new 30 Day Book Challenge. Hopefully this time I’ll be able to complete it. So I’ve scrapped everything have already done and have picked up a new list of questio...
Shambling Towards Hiroshima
So I had to read this book for my Science Fiction Class even though this book is not really science fiction. It does possess science fiction elements in the form of giant lizard creatures (think Godzi...
Holes
Holes is also a pretty great film. The adaptation managed to stay very close to the source material and the story translated well to screen. The Holes film was a treat for long time fans and a great i...
Beauty Queens aka Lord of the Flies 2.0
Every once in a while you come across a book and you realize that you have been waiting for it your entire life. That was our reaction to Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens. Marketed as a cross between ...
Day 4: A Book That Makes You Cry
When I first tried to read His Dark Materials I could not get myself past the first few chapters. I was bored and confused, and put it down for a year or two. When I ran out of things to read I final...
Day 3: Books that Make You Laugh Out Loud
One summer my family decided to go up to a cottage and for some reason I did not think to bring up a supply of books. I cannot imagine what I was thinking. Perhaps I assumed there would be a bookstore...
Day 2: Least Favorite Book
This one was particularly difficult for me, as if I really don’t like a book I tend to put it down with the intention of coming back to it. But then I never do. I think the little lie is to keep me fr...