by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2011 | book review, reading
If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a young adult novel about a seventeen-year-old girl, Mia, who is having an out-of-body experience. She is in a car crash with her family and ends up in a coma but is observing everything as if she is a ghost alongside her body. The book...
by amiemccracken | Jun 9, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
Congratulations to Andrea for winning the Amazon gift certificate to celebrate 200 followers! Thanks to those who entered.Another installment of books I read in 2010. We’re getting down to the bottom of the pile. But still quite a few to go! I rate on a scale of...
by amiemccracken | Apr 3, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
Another installment of what I read in 2010. I rate on a scale of 1-5.The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark – 2I was really hoping for more from this book. It takes an intriguing idea (an 18th-century apothecary obsessed with deformities) and just bored me. There...
by amiemccracken | Mar 28, 2011 | book review, reading
Spoilers below on Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins…just in case you haven’t read it yet. I’ve now read Mockingjay twice. I think the second time really allowed me to slow down and have a broader view. I always expected Prim to die, even the first time....
by amiemccracken | Jan 30, 2011 | book review, books, reading, story
Starting with the first books I read this year and plowing through to the end. I won’t bore you with the whole list at once. I rate on a scale of 1-5.Graceling by Kristin Cashore – 3Good but I don’t quite remember it, so either it was a really fast...
