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Publication Date: August 29, 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 162
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different... At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 312
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family...
Publication Date: February 1, 1998
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 250
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and today's monumentally difficult task is to list the top ten books I have read in 2015. Watch me proceed to read a book following this post and then wish I could have put it on here.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. 2015 has been a marvelous reading year. I stumbled upon more than a few authors and novels that impressed me. Here's to me hoping 2016 will be even better.
Publication Date: February 3, 2015
Publisher: William Morrow
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 310
Genre: Short Stories
Synopsis: Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In "Adventure Story"--a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane--Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience "A Calendar of Tales" are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year--stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale "The Case of Death and Honey". And "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week they wanted the blogger to choose what subject of books they would teach to a class of impossibly bored and likely sobbing students (can you tell that I am NOT excited about my first day of school today?). I chose to list books with extraordinarily good writing. I'm not talking about plots, world building, or character development. I mean the actual words that the author chose and how they might as well be made from unicorn tears and fairy dust because of how beautiful they are.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Today I'm listing only seven auto-buy authors (aka, authors whose books I would buy automatically, no questions asked). This is all kind of a lie--I always ask questions. It's up to several different factors, not just who the author is. But these seven authors are ones I would at least be unbelievable excited for.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, and the theme this week is to present all the wonderful, beautiful books that last came into my greedy hands.
Publication Date: November 1, 1998
Publisher: Avon
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 370
Genre: Supernatural
Synopsis: Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city - a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...
June is over and it's finally Summer! This means lounging around, marathoning shows on Netflix, and doing nothing productive whatsoever.
But I do try, you know (sometimes)! I read five books this past month, even with my busy schedule of doing nothing. Without further ado, those books are...
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, and the theme this week is to list the top ten best books that you've read so far in 2015. In no particular order, here are some truly awesome books you should definitely read.
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, and the theme this week is to list the top ten books on your TBR (to be read) pile this summer! I'm not typically one to plan what I read, I'm more of a spontaneous reader, but there are a few books I have in mind...
Publication Date: June 18, 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Books
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 181
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
