Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
Facts:Date finished: 9-21-08Author: Eoin ColferCategory: Children’s fantasyPublished: 2006Pages: 400Rating: 4/5 Basic Plot:Artemis Fowl is at it again, plotting, calculating. Only this time, he’s up to no bad. Seems thousands of years ago, rather than take on the humans face to face, the fairy worlds decided to make themselves scarce. Artemis…
What’s with the backpack hate?
We went to NY for the Labor Day weekend. Had a great time as always – challenge of the subway during non-regular hours, fat and fluffy french toast at Sarabeth’s on the Upper West Side, adventures in a hotel room smaller than my bathroom. But our trip this time was…
What-The-Dickens
Facts:Date finished: 9-9-08Author: Gregory MaguireCategory: Children’s fantasyPublished: 2007Pages: 295Rating: 4/5 Basic Plot:Things aren’t looking so great for the Ormsby family. What’s left of them at their house that is. Parents are gone and only less-than-useful cousin Gage is left to take care of Dinah, Zeke and baby Rebecca Ruth. The…
The Dip
Facts:Date finished: 9-2-08Author: Seth GodinCategory: Non-fictionPublished: 2007Pages: 80Rating: 5/5 Basic plot:Brief discourse on the importance of quitting and knowing when to quit and when to push through “the dip” to reach greatness. My assessment:Note that I believe Seth is god, so I love anything he’s written. This one is no…
Twilight – The Twilight Saga Book One
Facts:Date finished: 9-2-08Author: Stephenie MeyerCategory: Teen fantasyPublished: 2005Pages: 498Rating: 4.8/5 Basic Plot:Bella is moving to Forks, Washington, from Phoenix by choice, but that doesn’t mean she’s all happy and sunshine about it. Too bad, since Forks is in short supply of the latter. She’s just getting settled in to her…