The Legend of Korra Recap: Episode 7, “Beginnings, Part 1”
Oct 24
The Skinny
This episode is about to be AVATAR-HEAVY. Our Avatar was largely absent from last week’s episode until the end, which revealed that the dark spirit who attacked Korra while she was on her way to the Fire Nation didn’t kill her. Instead it dumped her on an island somewhere, all of her memories WIPED. She doesn’t even know she’s the Avatar, and her friends don’t know where she is. This was a BIG two-part episode, friends, but let’s focus on Part 1 first.
Top Ten Tuesday (98): Character Names
Oct 22
Top Ten Best/Most Unusual Character Names
OMG friends, I was BEYOND excited for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. Best character names? I died. For me, one of the more underrated aspects of books are the names of the characters, in good or bad ways. Guys named Oliver? Well, YES PLEASE. A girl whose nickname is Belly? ICK. But this list doesn’t just ask about my favorite or least favorite character names, but the most unusual as well. I can always get behind that, friends. And so, here is my longer-than-ten-items list of the best unusual character names from books that I’ve read. (I did, for a while, have names on here from books I haven’t read, but that turned out to make for a ridiculously long list.)
Book Review | The Outside | Laura Bickle
Oct 21
Friends, I’m so very excited to be participating in this year’s Fortnight of Fright event, hosted again by the delightful duo of Brittany @ The Book Addict’s Guide and Alyssa @ Books Take You Places. This is a super event leading up to Halloween where bloggers get to chat about some of their favorite creepy stuff! I’m sometimes a wuss about scary things, but I’m psyched to be reviewing THE OUTSIDE by Laura Bickle for my Fortnight of Fright post! So, thanks ladies! And come on in for some vampire creepiness!
Book Review | Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell
Oct 15
Title: Fangirl
Author: Rainbow Rowell (web | twitter)
Genre: Contemporary YA
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Release date: September 10, 2013
Source: ARC from the publisher via NetGalley (Thanks, St. Martin’s Press!)
Summary: Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . .
But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
Book Review | Golden | Jessi Kirby
Oct 10
Title: Golden
Author: Jessi Kirby (web | twitter)
Genre: Contemporary YA
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Release date: May 14, 2013
Source: Own it
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.
Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older, artistic guy. These are the secrets that were swept away with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving behind a grieving town and no bodies to bury.
Reading Julianna’s journal gives Parker the courage to start to really live—and it also gives her reasons to question what really happened the night of the accident. Armed with clues from the past, Parker enlists the help of her best friend, Kat, and Trevor, her longtime crush, to track down some leads. The mystery ends up taking Parker places that she never could have imagined. And she soon finds that taking the road less traveled makes all the difference.
The Legend of Korra Recap: Episode Five, “Peacekeepers”
Oct 9
WHEW! This season of The Legend of Korra is flying by! Story-wise, I mean. Lots happening ALREADY!
