Author: Will Ferguson Title: Beyond Belfast Published: October 2009 Publisher: Viking Canada Length: 390 pages Genre: Travelogue Target age: Adult Why I picked it up: Written by an author I enjoy Rating: 4 stars Challenges: 100+ Buy: Chapters | Check your local bookstore! Will Ferguson is a Canadian author known for his books about his travels and about Canadians. I’ve enjoyed him since we first studied Why I Hate Canadians […]
Author: Suzanne Collins Series: The Hunger Games trilogy Titles: Catching Fire/Mockingjay Published: September 2009/August 2010 Publisher: Scholastic Length: 391/390 pages Genre: Dystopian scifi Target age: Young adultWhy I picked it up: So many people have been raving about it, I felt like something had passed me by when Mockingjay was released so I bought a boxed set of the trilogyRating: 3 stars/2 stars Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | […]
Author: Jamie Bastedo Titles: Falling for Snow Published: October 2003 Publisher: Red Deer Press Length: 256 pages Genre: Non-fiction naturalist Target age: AdultWhy I picked it up: Found it while browsing at the libraryRating: 3.5 stars Buy: McNally Robinson | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! A couple of weeks ago I was at the library browsing for books, something I hadn’t done in a long time. One […]
Author: Suzanne Collins Series: The Hunger Games trilogy Titles: The Hunger Games Published: September 2008 Publisher: Scholastic Length: 378 pages Genre: Dystopian scifi Target age: Young adultWhy I picked it up: So many people have been raving about it, I felt like something had passed me by when Mockingjay was released so I bought a boxed set of the trilogy Rating: 4 stars Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check […]
*The following information applies to the English hardcover edition. (the novel was originally published in Portuguese in 2005). Also, the edition of the book I read doesn’t have the skull on the cover.* Author: Jose Saramago Translator: Margaret Jull Costa Title: Death With Interruptions Published: 2008 Publisher: Harcourt Length: 238 pages Genre: Magic realism, hypothetical fiction Target age: Young adult Why I picked it up: I enjoy the author’s writing […]