BookWormin'

Hi again!  I want to thank my aunt Hannah for giving my mom this book for me, because it's a really good story.  It's intriguing and I love how it takes place in Minnesota, focusing on our favorite part of the year, the Minnesota winter!!  :) *Note: Below is a review that I had written for my post for the author, Maggie Stiefvater.  The old post for this book has been deleted.  (1/16/16)* In Shiver, the first book of the Shiver Trilogy, Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house, and feels a special connection to one yellow-eyed wolf.  She calls him her wolf, though she doesn't know why.  Every winter, the wolves appear, and come summer they vanish again.  Grace waits for her wolf, trying to touch him, to figure out why he feels so familiar to her.  Until one day, she does touch him.  And nothing will ever be the same.  For either of them. Sam watches Grace from the woods behind her house, fading away whenever she tries to approach him.

Do you like the Fall background?  I wanted to do something for Halloween, but there wasn't a background with pumpkins, bats, spiders, witches or ghosts!  Unbelievable!!  So I settled for leaves.  What do you think?  I'll change it back to bookshelves after the holiday. ~laila

Hi everyone!  Have you read any good Halloween books lately?  I'm looking for a creepy crawly read for the upcoming holiday.  Let me know if you've read or heard of a spook-tacular Halloween book!!  Mwha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!  :) ~ laila

I have read so many of her books!  I love them all, and they are the type of books I never want to put down.  I've read The Hero and the Crown  at least 4 times.  That's the first one of R. McKinley's books that I read, because I got it free from a summer reading program.  I liked it immediately, and reread it several times over those next few weeks.  Then recently while I was searching for classical books online at the library, one of the books was hers.  I reserved it, then scrolled through some more of her books and got them too.  The books I got included: Beauty, The Door in the Hedge, The Blue Sword, and Chalice.   I loved them all, but my two favorite books out of all Robin's that I've read are the Blue Sword , and Chalice .   The Blue Sword has lots of adventure and it's a great read!!   Chalice is another good book, because it's different from everything I've read.  I can't describe it exactly, but I can recommend it!!  Like I said though,

Hello!!  I have noticed that I can't seem to keep from writing huge blog entries, so whenever you become particularly sick of reading my gargantuan writings, feel free to comment on the length of any particular entry, and I'll try to write a nice short one like this.   ~laila

Okay, there are lots of books that have been turned into movies.  These are fun to read because you read the book, then watch the movie, and it's like the book turns into a reality.  Or if you watch the movie first, then you read the book to find out if it's as good, that's fine too.  :)  One of my favorite out of the books that have been made movies is the Harry Potter series.  I think I like the books better, except for the 7th, because I love the movie!!!  Anyway.... another book is Bridge to Terebithia, which I didn't know was a book in the beginning, because I watched the movie first.  It's a great movie, and it kinda made the book not as exciting when I read it.  Has that ever happened to you, where you watch a movie and love it, then read the book and not like it?  There is not a lot of books that I don't like, ask my siblings, ask my mom, ask my dad, they'll all tell you that practically all I do is read.  Okay, back on subject.  One of my new all ti