As you may have seen, I’m still exploring authors who’s work I’ve never read before. Read on to find out what I thought of the latest novel… If you are looking for a cheerful, light hearted story, It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini is not what you’re looking for. Here’s a quote to prove my…
I mentioned a few weeks back that I’d be trying out some new authors that I haven’t read anything by yet. This week: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. In this novel, the world is on the verge of war between the Darwinists and the Clankers. In this alternate reality, world war one is fought between the Darwinists…
I found this advertisement by CCIS to be quite interesting and think that you should all check this out. The target audience of this contest is youth between the ages of 12-30 and it ends on March 22nd (so you still have lots of time to submit!). Check out what CCIS has to say about…
I can honestly say that I’m a guy who loves reading. But when I go looking for books, I will only select one written by a handful of authors who I trust. My friends have always made fun of me for being paranoid. So naturally, I made a new years resolution to be less paranoid.…
When I saw the trailer for “The Book of Eli” the first thought that came across my mind was Fallout 3: The Movie. I’m not trying to be funny, I literally thought that they were making a movie based in the “Fallout 3” universe. After seeing Avatar, I’ve had enough of movies with cliché plots…
Speaking of Avatar… This sort of post is out of character for me, but i found it really funny and wanted to share this with everone. This is a picture I found on failblog.org. It’s called”the Avatar Plot Fail.” Enjoy 🙂
“Warning: This book contains lewd humor, underage drinking, illicit fantasizing and very bad decision-making”. This is actually writing on the back of the book. I can not tell whether this is to attract readers or because this warning is mandatory. The novel follows Carter, a typical freshmen boy trying to get through the year. This novel…
I am not reviewing a book called Love Stories; I am simply expressing my thoughts on the role of romance in the modern day youth novels. The way I see it, when we were young, the guys and the girls read the same amount. But as we matured, so did the books we read. Soon…
My latest book review is of Chris Wooding’s The Fade. This story takes place on the moon of some uninhabitable planet. The people of that moon must live underground due to the fact that they would die a very painful death if they were to be caught on the surface when both their suns were…
Storm Thief is a novel by author Chris Wooding. The novel is set in the future on an island-city known as Orokos. Orokos is constantly threatened by “probability storms” – random storms that warp reality and can make anything happen. There is war on the island along with crime and cruelty. The force of governance…
This story takes place in the 21st century, but it has an interesting twist to it – the Greek gods, goddesses, and monsters are real and they live among us. In the story, a magical substance known as mist keeps humans from seeing the supernatural; it instead causes us to see things that can be…
I’ve been covering the novels of John Green for a few weeks now, and this week I’ll be talking about his novel, An Abundance of Katherines. This novel follows a “teen prodigy” named Colin Singleton; he is an 18 year old with a rather strange taste in women. He does not care about looks or…
Miles, a social outcast at school becomes board of his eventless life, and he is tired of being a nobody. But that all changed when he moved to a boarding school called Culver Creek in search of “the great perhaps”. Soon Miles befriends a group of teens including the colonel, his muscular but short roommate;…
This is the second part of my search for John Green books. This week I read Let It Snow, it is a collection of three Christmas love stories (these are love stories that guys will enjoy). The stories are all slightly related and are all quite interesting and funny. The book was written by John…
“Sigh”… I was really expecting something different when I decided to read this novel. You see, from what I had heard, it is a story that takes place in a world that has suffered a zombie apocalypse. Groups of people built towns surrounded by fences to protect themselves from the zombies, and now, many generations…