Books and Sensibility

Audiobook Review : Lexicon by Max Barry

April 7, 2014 1 Comment

Release Date: June 18th 2013

Publisher: Penguin

Genre: Thriller

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

At an exclusive training school at an undisclosed location outside Washington, D.C., students are taught to control minds, to wield words as weapons. The very best graduate as “poets” and enter a nameless organization of unknown purpose. Recruited off the street, whip-smart Emily Ruff quickly learns the one key rule: never allow another person to truly know you. Emily becomes the school’s most talented prodigy, until she makes [a] catastrophic mistake

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This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Earl with Lori and Wayne Earl

April 2, 2014 4 Comments

Release Date: January 28th 2014

Genre: YA Nonfiction / Memoir

Pages: 428

Publisher: Dutton (Penguin)

Synopsis: In full color and illustrated with art and photographs, this is a collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

This book debuted around the time I finished Fault in Our Stars (I know… super late to the party) but I had no intention of reading it. Then I saw it on the shelf at the library and decided why not? I had seen some of Esther’s videos on YouTube, visited her family’s foundation website when she first passed, and I thought I knew most of Esther Earl’s story.

Well, that turned out to be completely wrong.…

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Stacking The Shelves 2

March 30, 2014 5 Comments

This haul is for the months of February and March !

February

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Launch Weekend : Miss Mabel’s School For Girls + Giveaway

March 28, 2014 1 Comment

This is the launch weekend of Miss Mabel’s School For Girls, the debut novel from Katie Cross ! I love a texty cover and this one has a cool Gothic and classical feel. This is the first book in The Network Series.

Never underestimate the power of a determined witch. Letum Wood is a forest of fog and deadfall, home to the quietly famous Miss Mabel’s School for Girls, a place where young witches learn the art of magic.Sixteen-year-old Bianca Monroe has inherited a deadly curse. Determined to break free before it kills her, she enrolls in the respected school to confront the cunning witch who cast the curse: Miss Mabel.Bianca finds herself faced with dark magic she didn’t expect, with lessons more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Will Bianca have the courage to save herself from the curse, or will Miss Mabel’s sinister plan be too powerful?Miss Mabel’s School for Girls is the first novel in The Network Series, an exciting new fantasy collection. A gripping tale about the struggle to survive, it will take you to a new place and time, one you’ll never want to leave.

Check out Miss Mabel’s School For Girlson the web and with this awesome giveaway

Days of David Levithan: Lover’s Dictionary and Realm of Possibility

March 25, 2014 Leave a Comment

Between 2013-2014 I attempt to read a large selection of David Levithan novels.
See the full list here

We are kind of skipping around in publication order because I think these two Levithan novels have a lot in common as they are both love stories written in nontraditional prose.

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NoVaTeen Book Festival 2014

March 18, 2014 4 Comments

A couple of weekends ago, Kat and I headed to Arlington, VA to attend the first ever NoVA (Northern Virginia) Teen Book Festival ! When I first saw this event pop up on Twitter I was so excited to see a large YA event in Virginia.

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