BookWormin'

Lately I went back to the library and did the usual return-pick up thing.   So, first step: Return old books .   Second step: Check out new books.   Third step: Read new books.  Check, check, and check.  Now I'm on the fourth step.   Fourth step: Blog about books.   Now, I'm not gonna blog about every single book I got, but I'll try to do most of them.  In the meantime, this post is so you know what I'm reading and am to lazy to actually have in a separate post. Recently, I just finished two books: The Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, and the sequel  Days of Blood and Starlight.   These books are about a war between chimera and seraphim.  The chimera see the seraphim as monsters and the seraphim return the favor.  Now this isn't like and angels and devils sort of thing, there's no heaven and hell.  The main character is Karou, a human girl who works for a chimera named Brimstone.  Brimstone trades peopl...

13 Gifts is the third book in the "Birthday" series.  The first sentence in this book was one of my favorite parts, and it lured me in. "Like all big mistakes, mine started with a goat." -13 Gifts From then on, I was sold and loved this book from start to finish.  In this story, Tara is sent to live with her aunt and Uncle in the town of Willow Falls.  When she gets there her cousin introduces her to some friends, and they become a group.  Rory who is constantly losing her phone, Leo and Amanda who for some reason don't talk out loud to each other and instead communicate with chalkboards tied around their necks, and David who is called Bee Boy by Amanda.  When Tara runs into an antique dealer named Angelina D'Angelo, she must collect certain items before her thirteenth birthday or Tara's secret will be revealed.  At first, Tara tries to collect the items by herself, but soon her friends find out what she's doing, although not why she doing it.  Dav...

This is the second book in the "Birthdays" series by Wendy Mass.  Or maybe it's less of a series and more a bunch of spin-off books??  I'll call it a series for now. The first book is 11 Birthdays.  Now we have Finally, which is about a girl who is finally turning twelve.  All her life, Rory has been told by her parents "you can do this when you're twelve" or "you can get that when you're twelve".  When you're twelve, when you're twelve. Now the time has come, and Rory is turning twelve.  And she has a long list of stuff to check off.  Get a pet.  Shave her legs.  Get a cell phone.  Replace her glasses with contacts.  Pierce her ears.  Etc., etc.  The timing is perfect, because a movie is being filmed at Rory's school and the director is looking for students to be extras.  When Rory is chosen to be in the film, she and her friend decide to cross off one thing on her list.  Shaving her legs.  While shopping...