Title: Steve Jobs Author: Walter Isaacson Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date Published: 2011 ISBN: 978-1451648546 Isaacson was commissioned by Jobs to write this official biography telling the story of Jobs’ birth, upbringing, and career life until his untimely death by cancer. Isaacson interviewed over 100 people to compile this narrative of Jobs’ life in anContinue reading “Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson”
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Top Ten Tuesday
This week’s top ten list is a huge challenge for me. Sure, I read A LOT! But it’s so difficult to pick out ten books that stick to this weeks topic. The top ten topic for this week is: top ten of the most unique books I’ve ever read. Of course, most books tend toContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Top Ten Tuesday
This weeks topic makes me feel a little nostalgic for all of those books that inspired me, motivated me, and changed me in some way or another. The topic is “top ten ‘gateway’ books/authors in my reading journey.” 1. The first series I ever remember reading is the Babysitters Club series by Ann M. Martin. ItContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Review – Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Title: Allegiant Author: Veronica Roth Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, imprint of HarperCollins Date Published: 2013 ISBN: 9780062024060 In this final instalment in the Divergent series the world we’ve learned about, the restricted world in which Tris has grown up, suddenly expands and what the characters believed to be true about their lives crumbles around them. AsContinue reading “Review – Allegiant by Veronica Roth”
Review – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitgerald
Title: “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” Author: Therese Anne Fowler Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Date Published: 2013 ISBN: 978-1-250-02866-2 Fowler’s novels tells the story of young Zelda Sayre through her whirlwind romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald, their marriage, and their eventual demise. Zelda is young, beautiful, and reckless whenContinue reading “Review – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitgerald”
Top Ten Tuesday
Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s topic is: Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List. Where do I even begin? There are so many bookish things that I’ve come across over the past few years that I don’t think I can condense everything into one list of ten items. 1. Build my perfect library.Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Review: A Tale for the Time Being
Title: A Tale for the Time Being Author: Ruth Ozeki Published by: Penguin Canada Books Inc. Date Published: 2013 ISBN: 978-0-14318742-4 A Tale for the Time Being tells the story of Naoko Yasutani, a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl as told through her diary. Ruth, a writer, who lives on a remote island (presumably somewhere off theContinue reading “Review: A Tale for the Time Being”
#RaiseSomeShell – Teenage Mutant Pop Culture from ECW Press
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Title: Raise Some Shell. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Author: Richard Rosenbaum Publisher: ECW Press Date Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-77041-179-1 Check this book out on Goodreads! Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Taking a break from the fiction for a somewhat unconventional non-fiction, I’d like to draw your…
Top Ten Tuesday
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday is “books on my Spring 2014 TBR (to be read) list. I’d like to see how many of these I’ll get through. I’ll set this goal and hopefully achieve it before summer comes around. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald I have a fascination with this era. IContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday”
Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer
Title: Cress Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Feiwel and Friends, imprint of Macmillan Date Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-312-64297-6 In the third instalment of The Lunar Chronicles series, we meet Cresent Moon, aka Cress, a lunar girl who’s been held captive in a satellite orbiting Earth for seven years and has been forced to work as aContinue reading “Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer”
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