Content tagged with "young-adult"
My daughter read this for school and asked me to read it too. It’s essentially the movie “Groundhog Day” for tweens. I enjoyed it. It was well-written and had a nice theme of redemption and the need to be good to other people. Much like the movie, the protagonists can’t continue their lives until…
I read this on a friend’s recommendation. I’m trying to read more fiction. I enjoyed it. It’s a young adult novel, so you get the familiar tropes: adolescent facing a major choice, problems with authority, dark forces swirling in the background, a hopeless romance, etc. But it’s put together well,…
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Choose Your Own Adventure
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Harry Potter
This is my sixth Potter novel – I’ve read them all in order. Like the last one , this was long: somewhere close to 700 pages. And like that one, the book seemed to meander a lot. I said of the last one that Rowling could have cut 200 pages from the middle and no one would have noticed, and the same…
A good installment in the series, but overly long. At 900 pages, it was the longest so far. She could have cut a third of the book out and told the same story. There were hundreds of pages in the middle where not much of anything was happening. I enjoyed the characterization of Umbridge. Also, I…
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Choose Your Own Adventure
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Choose Your Own Adventure
One of my daughter’s friends left this in my car after she borrowed it to drive to a Pitbull concert in Omaha. So I read it. Five students get mysteriously pranked into serving detention together. One of them dies from an allergic reaction. Who did it? The format of the book is interesting. Each…
A friend recommended this. It’s technically young adult fiction – the same author wrote The Fault in Our Stars. But I didn’t realize that until I was quite a bit into it. Quentin grew up next door to Margo. They were friends when they were younger. They once discovered a dead body in a park…
This is the first novel in the Young Bond series. It covers James Bond in 1933 when he’s a 13-year-old boy at Eton. The date setting of the novel is actually never mentioned. I was trying to reverse-engineer it based on comments by the characters. Mentions of “the war” had me thinking they were…
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Choose Your Own Adventure
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Choose Your Own Adventure
