STANDING OVATION!! I have this slightly odd habit. I only do it when I encounter a truly fantastic book, and well it happened last night. See... I usually start reading a book while standing at the bar in my kitchen. Everything lands there when we get home...library books, school work, junk and not-...
Fantastic middle grade. Some people will complain that the ending felt predictable and canned, but I thought it worked really well given Willow's character. One of the better books I've read in 2013. Highly recommended.
When it comes to the technical aspects of Counting by 7s, this book is five star all the way. It's written in a style I absolutely LOVED, and the voice of the protagonist we clear to me and brilliantly rendered all through the writing. I mentioned in my updated how difficult it must be to write a tw...
When it comes to contemporary novels, I tend to gravitate toward middle-grade contemp and Holly Goldberg Sloan’s Counting by 7’s reminded me why I love this genre so much. Counting by 7’s is a moving, heartbreaking, yet utterly heartwarming, story about 12 year old genius Willow Chance. Willow, with...
Read this review and much more on my blog, YA Fanatic.I knew I didn't made a mistake when I bought this book. It has this beautiful cover (one of my favorites), the blurb screams pain and devotion and it got an advance praise from Gayle Forman, Sara Zarr and A.S. King. This is a story about brothers...
English Review: Sam and Emily is, as the name already tells, a charming, but also sad story about the chances of life which can lead to luck or misfortune. Small occurrences, considered in little only as vanities, which maybe have to mean nothing, but if you look at them in the big whole of the life...
I liked aspects of it quite well. Riddle and Sam especially. Products of their strange and horrible upbringing and yet still something else altogether. I could have done without the romance entirely or the creepy douchebag boyfriend. *shudders* But I wished that we had a chance to delve deeper into ...
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