So story. My first read of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak took me about four months to finish. I blame college. I Am the Messenger took probably two. The only one I've read in a reasonable amount of time is the Underdogs trilogy, but only because I read it in the summer. After that, …
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Book Review | The Return of the King
Aaaand I'm back with the final installment in my ramblings about The Lord of the Rings! Let's do this. So The Return of the King picks up—as you might imagine—where The Two Towers left off. Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli Merry, Pippin, and their allies from Rohan head for Gondor, where trouble brews on the horizon. …
Book Review | The Two Towers (SPOILERS)
I'm back with more Middle-Earth fangirling! Let's do this. (Again, as with my first LOTR review, this is also a review of the audio by Rob Inglis.) Also, there are... I guess, spoilers... in this review, both for this and also for the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. If you somehow haven't read …
Book Review | The Fellowship of the Ring
I first read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings years ago, after I discovered the films. That was probably more than a decade ago (which sounds strange to say!), and this summer I finally picked them for a second time. Well, I say "picked them up." That implies I used my eyes to read …
Book Review | Dry (ARC)
I got an advance reader's copy (ARC) of Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. As this means the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, I won't quote directly and will keep my comments general. Alyssa, a teenager living in the Los Angeles area, turns on a faucet one …
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