Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Book reviews

  • Book Review: Click

    For me, one of life’s little pleasures is reading a book that I can’t wait to get back to, or can’t put down. It makes me happy. This past week I enjoyed one of those books. It’s Click by a group of fantastic authors that includes Linda Sue Park, Nick Hornby, and Eoin Colfer, to…

  • Book Review: Skin Hunger

    Since Saturday is December 1st I will use today to do a book review for another Book Award contender: Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey. This is the first of a trilogy called “A Resurrection of Magic.” It is of the Fantasy genre and it is the story of two protagonists. The stories are told in…

  • Book Review Saturday: Story of a Girl

    Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr was another contender for the National Book Award this year. It’s the story of a girl (heh) who has a past. A girl with a bad past. At the young age of 13, Deanna is caught by her father having sex in a car with her brother’s best…

  • Book Review Saturday: Touching Snow

    The National Book Award nominees were announced about a month ago and so I have been reading through the contenders for Young People’s Literature. So for this month I will tell what I thought of all of the National Book award nominations (for Young People’s Literature). Today’s book is Touching Snow by M. Sandy Felin.…

  • The Wednesday Wars

    I just now finished reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. Wow. What an amazingly great book. It’s a very humorous and fun read. I love the characters in it (except for the main character’s dad. But there’s even something to like about him, too.) It’s really well written. There are some great passages…