Top Ten Tuesday – Bad Governments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week they come up with a topic and invite whoever wants to add their own list to their own blog. Thank goodness today's TTT was a freebie! On Sunday I went to church with my mom and the sermon was…

Be healthy; eat chocolate

Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin The Skinny: Recently freed from her time in prison, Anya Balanchine is determined to stay on the straight and narrow. Except her criminal record makes this nearly impossible. She can't get into any high school, she's constantly monitored and all of her friends seemed to have moved…

[insert witty title about Insurgent]

Insurgent by Veronica Roth The Skinny: Tris' world is shaken from the war. Her friends and family are dead. Her faction is divided. And as a Divergent, she is hunted. (I really tried to come up with a summary, but everything I wrote sounded so wrong. Just trust me on this: Insurgent is awesome. That's…

Retro Reads Thursday: The Slave Dancer

There comes a time in every reading loving child's life when they pick up a book that completely opens their eyes and shocks them to their very core. The subject matter isn't really important - different subjects affect different people in very different ways. Maybe that shocking subject is divorce, or death of a loved…

Give it to me, nowwww!

The Giver by Lois Lowery The Skinny: Jonas lives in a world that is literally perfect - there's no war or famine; no race or prejudice; no choices to be made. At 12, children of Jonas' society are given their careers, jobs that they will train for and have been selected for due to their…

Retro Reads Thursday: The Giver

As we all know, dystopian novels are all the rage now. They're full of action and deceit, compromising situations that force the characters and readers to understand the fault in our natures. There's usually killing and darker themes, things that force us to see the utter chaos a dystopian society brings. But once upon a…