Review: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Buy Links:

Amazon

Book Description:

Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy-a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. 

In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself.

How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with?

And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won't back down.




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“It reminds me of the way the sun hits the water in the afternoon scattering color and light all over the beach revealing little nooks and crannies that were always there but didn’t catch my eye until the moment they sparkled in the sunlight, impossible to miss,” Josie – A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone is written from the perspectives of three different girls, Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva. I love this book. First off I love the format Stone writes the book in. It’s easy to read and interesting to see how each section or word rather relates to what’s being written. Second, it’s realistic. I love when I can relate a book to an experience I’ve had in my life or one of my friends have had.

Banned Book Week

Don't forget guys, it's Banned Book Week! Check out the the Banned Book Website and look around at all the cool events and such that they have going on. You won't be sorry!

Below is my favorite banned book on the 2013 List of frequently challenge books. What's yours? Sound off below! :)

Banned Book Week Giveaway Hop

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Review: Gone with the Wind (Gone with the Wind #1)

Gone with the Wind (Gone with the Wind #1) by Margaret Mitchell
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
Release Date: September 1, 1936
Buy Links:

Amazon ♥ B & N

Book Description:

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's epic love story is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and its people forever changed. 

At the heart of all this chaos is the story of beautiful, ruthless Scarlett 'O' Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.




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Even though it has been over 30 years since I first read Gone with the Wind, the story and the characters have stayed with me. At that time, I was interested in the love story between Rhett and Scarlett. They were strong characters who were a perfect match and I wanted Scarlett to forget about Ashley and let Rhett sweep her away. There were times I thought Scarlett to be a spoiled, selfish person who was so irritating that I wanted to scream.

Now that I am older, I have a different perspective on the story. I still think that Scarlett and Rhett are a perfect match and if Margaret Mitchell had written a sequel, they would have overcome all the things that happened between them and lived happily ever after. However, there is so much more to Gone with the Wind. It is the story about friendship, forgiveness, and survival.

Review: Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian
Published: 1932
Buy Links: Amazon ♥ B&N

Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role.

But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. 

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress…

A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley' s most enduring masterpiece.

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Brave New World opens with a student tour of a London laboratory where the production of babies takes place. A great deal of time goes into explaining the different processes go into separating the five castes from each other the highest being Alpha and the lowest Epsilon in social standing, intelligence and height. All of this is done to insure the continuation of the motto Community, Identity, Stability. Everyone is conditioned to be happy within their ranking seeking immediate gratification and grateful to do their part.

Banned Book Week: Booktrib Presents - Hangout On Air with Jay Asher!

This week is all about Banned Books and one event that I absolutely have to promote because of my recent love of Thirteen Reasons Why is the Hangout with Jay Asher event happening today at 3pm!

Booktrib is hosting and it's going to be a ton of fun! There will be giveaways and you can ask Jay Asher those burning questions of yours. So stop by and join in the annual celebration of the freedom to read!

Check out the Flyer Invitation below!

Review: Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Buy Links:

Amazon

Book Description:

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.


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“He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. It’s up to the reader to decipher the code, or words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.” –Hanna Baker, Thirteen Reasons Why.

You’re wondering why I picked this quote aren’t you when you know there are probably more meaningful ones in this book. The truth is I think this quote sums up Hanna’s story in a nutshell. Hanna herself is a puzzle and throughout Thirteen Reasons Why we get to see that puzzle slowly but surely stumble together creating a picture that even though you don’t want to see, you can’t run away from. It’s staring you back in the face making you think, wonder, am I someone’s puzzle piece?

Every so often you find a book that changes your life, opens your eyes to things you might have otherwise missed and for me that book is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Never have I read a story so devastatingly honest and gut-wrenchingly tragic before and yet with all the truths and ugliness Asher engulfs the reader in, in the end I can see the tiniest sliver of hope shine through.

Blog Hop: Banned Book Week Giveaway Hop!

Hosted by BookHounds and I am a Reader, Not A Writer

September 22nd - 28th

It's that time of year again where we rebel against the system and demand our book back!!! ...I'm totally being dramatic. It's banned book week and ever since 1982 the American Library Association has put together campaigns to make everyone aware of the circumstances of this form of censorship.

Some books are banned for small things like language or inappropriate themes for the age group, but other books are banned for things that are presumed to be more serious, but in all reality no one has a right to pull books from the shelves of our libraries and bookstores. If you don't like what a book is saying or what it stands for, here's a clue don't read it.