Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Title: Ship Breaker Published: May 2010 Publisher: Little, Brown Length: 323 pages Genre: Dystopian scifi Target age: Young adult Why I picked it up: Hank Green Rating: 3.5 stars Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! I enjoyed Ship Breaker much more than Marcus of Umbria. It has been a very long time since I’ve blown through a fiction book so quickly. Young […]
Author: Justine van der Leun Title: Marcus of Umbria Published: June 2010 Publisher: Rodale Books Length: 224 pages Genre: Travel memoir Target age: AdultWhy I picked it up: Sounded like light summer reading (it took awhile for the hold to come in)Rating: 1 star Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! It’s been a long time since I’ve finished a book that left me feeling […]
Author: Ernest Hemingway Title: A Moveable Feast Published: December 1964 Publisher: Scribners (USA) Length: 211 pages Genre: Memoir Target age: AdultWhy I picked it up: About Paris in the 1920s, starting to read books by the Lost Generation Rating: 4 stars Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! [A quick note on the edition I’m reading: I’ve got a first edition out from the library (the cover […]
Author: Naomi Klein Title: The Shock Doctrine Published: September 2007 Publisher: Knopf Canada Length: 672 pages Genre: Non-fiction, economics Target age: Adult Why I picked it up: Shopping spree at Chapters one day Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! This a pretty hefty book so I haven’t finished it yet. That being said, I’ve also owned the book for five months and should probably get […]
Author: Eoin Colfer Series: Artemis Fowl Title: The Atlantis Complex Published: August 2010 Publisher: Hyperion Length: 432 pages Genre: Modern fantasy Target age: Preteen Why I picked it up: Been reading the series since grade five Rating: 1.5 stars Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! After the sixth book in the series, The Time Paradox, was released, I don’t know why, but I doubted that […]