A Colloquy on Books

Taylor Greer grew up in Kentucky had two goals: don't get pregnant and get away. As she is in the process of getting away, Taylor acquires a three year old Indian girl. Motherhood is suddenly thrust upon Taylor as she has to struggle to survive in the emptiest of places. 4 stars. The death of Kate's parents leave her devastated and in Paris with her grandparents. The only way she can handle this loss is by drowning herself in the world of books and art. That is until she meets Vincent, a revenant, a undead boy who must sacrifice himself over and over again to save others. Will this relationship ever work out safely? 3 stars. A civil war is brewing Carthya. Connor has devised a plan to find an impersonator for the long lost prince and make him the prince. Four orphans have been recruited to compete for a spot, including Sage, a defiant fourteen year old. Sage knows that Connor is a liar but Sage's life is at stake. As more and more lies are uncovered, it might j...

The world is divided, Red or Silver. It is divided by the color of your blood. The color of your blood controls everything, your status, your lifestyle, everything. The Reds are commoners but the Silvers are the elite ruling class with godlike superpowers. Mare Barrow resents this. She hates being at the bottom, and more than that she hates the Silvers, but when she has the chance to work at the Silver Palace it is an offer she can't refuse. It is there, Mare discovers something about herself, she too possesses an extraordinary power, despite the fact that she bleeds red. The Silvers becoming afraid of what she can do, hide her in the palace itself claiming her to be a long lost Silver princess. They engage her to a prince and put her in the center of a deadly court of Silvers ruled by a devious king. Mare knows that one misstep will lead to her death yet she communicates with the Red Guard, a group of rebels, to help bring down the Silvers. But this is a world of liars, oat...

A story about growing up and losing the innocence of childhood set against the background of World War II. Gene is introverted and lonely. Phineas is handsome and a daredevil. What happens between these two unlikely friends will change their understanding of life. 1 star. Right under Yellowstone is a supervolcano, and it's overdue for an eruption. Alex plans to spend the weekend enjoying his house to himself by playing video games and hanging out. But the eruption disrupts his plans as it plunges his world into darkness and ash. He must trek across the country to find his parents. 4 stars. Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel must spends 227 days on a life boat trying to beat all odds, including Richard Parker, a Bengal Tiger. 2 stars. My Review When an unexpected rule change forces all students to join a sports team, an even more unexpected group of kids, with Jack Logan as their leader, decide to make a team whose goal is to lose. But soon they've made a nam...

They came, a long long time ago, from the sky among fire and smoke. They gave us civilization and rules. They needed us to mine gold for them, when they had what they needed they left, but before leaving they told us that they would come back and when they came back a game would be played, Endgame. This game would determine our future. For ten thousand years the first twelve lines of humanity have kept a Player ready at all times to compete in Endgame. Generation after generation after generation have trained in everything. The players are good and evil, smart and stupid, weak and strong, ugly and beautiful, like you, like all of you. When the game starts, the players will be expected to find keys. these keys are hidden on the Earth. Whoever finds the keys first wins. The rules of Endgame are: there are no rules to Endgame. This is the hunt for the first key. Will stupidity beat kindness? Laziness top beauty? Loyalty thwart ruthlessness? Will the winner be good or evil? There is ...

Happy (belated) New Year! I hope you enjoyed celebrating the coming of the new year and I also hope you read many amazing book in the past year. As I welcome 2016 as an opportunity to keep reading many new books, meeting new people, watching new movies, making new friends, and geeking out about books, I would like a to take a moment to name my top 10 favorite reads of 2015 (in no particular order): The Perks of Being a Wallflower by: Stephen Chbosky  Red Queen by: Victoria Aveyard To Kill A Mockingbird by: Harper Lee Thirteen Reasons Why by: Jay Asher Out of My Mind by: Sharon M. Draper Kill Me Softly by: Sarah Cross Lord of the Flies by: William Golding The 5th Wave by: Rick Yancy To Sir, With Love by: E.R. Braithwaite Esperanza Rising by: Pan Munoz Ryan Have a great year ahead and happy reading!

Grace has just moved to San Francisco. She can communicate with computers better than she can with boys. She's out one day exploring the city with her brother and his friend when a monster shows up at the same restaurant as them. With the monster comes a girl that looks exactly like her. Grace's look alike battles the monster, killing him and leaving Grace wondering who this mysterious girl is. Gretchen has no family and never has had a family, her mentor is the closest thing to a family. Her mentor is missing. Gretchen has learned how to fight monsters from her mentor and now that more and more monsters are showing up around the city she has some questions but she has no one to ask them to. As Gretchen is fighting yet another monster she sees a girl who looks just like her. Gretchen works out with the help of the mystery girl whose name is Grace that they are two of the three triplet descendants of Medusa. Greer is from a super wealthy family and has a jam packed socia...

On the internet Torrey Grey is famous. Thousands of people watch her videos on beauty and fashion. Her world is as perfect can be, she has a cute boyfriend, a loyal best friend, her videos are popular, and she's getting kind of famous, on the internet at least. Just then does disaster strike, Torrey's sister dies in an accident and Torrey and her videos might be to blame. In an instant, Torrey's perfect world is in pieces.  Torrey and her family move away from their old place to try to move on with their life. In her new school, she doesn't know who to trust, queen bee Blair, who likes her only because she is famous on the internet, or Raylene who is unpopular but accepts Torrey for who she is? Strangers online are hating on Torrey and she can't seem to stay away from Luis, a boy whose family owns the local funeral home, a boy who tell her stories about El dio de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). As Dio de los Muertos comes nearer Torrey will have to learn how t...