INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN by Thanhha Lai is the story of a year in the life of ten-year-old Hà and her family. It’s a very tough year for them and Hà is convinced her action caused all the bad luck. At the beginning of the year the family is living in Saigon but they [...]
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Today I posted my Top Five Favorite Award Winning Books for 2011. Those are the best of the books I read and reviewed at Quirky Girls Read blog. Come visit and see which ones I picked. Click the button to go there Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi won the 2011 Michael J. Printz Award. I just finished reading this young adult dystopian novel. Surprisingly, I liked it. Dystopian fiction and/or science fiction isn’t my usual fare. It’s set in a future world that’s a little scary. Please come and visit me over at Quirky Girls Read and check out my [...] I just finished reading The Territory by Tricia Fields. This book won the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery set in the American Southwest. The story focuses on a small town female police chief in a Texas border town. There is lots of action is this good mystery. Come and read my review at [...] Regular readers of this blog know how obsessed I am with Agatha Christie’s novels. You will know how thrilled I was to get Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by John Curran. Here’s a little bit about it: Following the death of Agatha’s daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was revealed. Unearthed among [...] |
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