By Lynai, on May 7th, 2013 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme of The Broke and the Bookish
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So I missed a couple of Top Ten Tuesday posts, but this week I’m back. I’ve been setting up a monthly reading list and if I can help it, I always throw in a book or . . . → Read More: Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light & Fun
By Lynai, on March 23rd, 2013 image from Goodreads
Summary from Goodreads:
Flipped is a romance told in two voices. The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time Bryce saw Juli, he ran. That’s pretty much the pattern for these two neighbors until the eighth grade, when, just as Juli is realizing . . . → Read More: FLIPPED/Wendelin Van Draanen
By Lynai, on October 17th, 2012
In my desire to explore as much as possible all kinds of genre in fiction stories, I have discovered that I am also able to enjoy fantasy and dystopian literature. The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness, for instance, got very high ratings from me, and Game of Thrones by George R.R. . . . → Read More: ENDER’S GAME/Orson Scott Card
By Lynai, on July 21st, 2012
I rarely do re-reads but when I saw that a copy of this book is free for download in Goodreads, I immediately got my own copy and decided I will make this book one of those rare re-reading moments. And I’m glad I did.
The first time I . . . → Read More: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER/Mark Twain
By Lynai, on April 20th, 2012
Finally. For several times already, I have attempted to finish this short novella but it was only yesterday that I was able to finish it. It’s not that Coraline is an uninteresting story, it is actually the far opposite, except that my eyes can stand the strain of reading from the . . . → Read More: CORALINE/Neil Gaiman
By Lynai, on March 28th, 2012 my hardbound copy from Booksale
Harriet the Spy is the last book on my required reading list for this month and I’m glad I chose it because it is an easy and quick read, perfect for my hectic schedule and provided a welcome respite to one of my most stressful months of . . . → Read More: HARRIET THE SPY/Louise Fitzhugh
By Lynai, on March 9th, 2012
For this month, I had lined up two kiddie books for the Required Reading Challenge, and this book is one of them. Considering my busy schedule and the anticipation of more busy-ness until May, light and easy reads like The Medusa Plot are always a welcome respite. Of course, some may ask . . . → Read More: THE MEDUSA PLOT/Gordon Korman
By Lynai, on February 17th, 2012
Stanley Yelnats. This is the name of the boy who was sent to Camp Green Lake, a detention center for delinquent children, for a crime he didn’t commit. And he blames his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather for it. At Camp Green Lake, the detainees including Stanley were to dig holes day after day, five feet . . . → Read More: HOLES/Louis Sachar
By Lynai, on January 25th, 2012 The first month of the new year has not yet ended, but already I have a number of book purchases made. It’s a good thing I did not impose a book-buying ban upon myself this year because I know that doing so will only make a liar out of me. I just challenged . . . → Read More: BOOK BUYS (1)
By Lynai, on November 18th, 2011
It is a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are in the kitchen for a midnight snack when a most disturbing visitor arrives.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearhly stranger tells them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and . . . → Read More: A WRINKLE IN TIME/Madeleine L’Engle
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