Review: Drought

Title: Drought

Author: Pam Bachorz

Publication Date: January 25, 2011

Ages: 12 and up

Pages: 400

Publisher: EgmontUSA

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Biography

Pam Bachorz grew up in a small town in the Adirondack foothills, where she participated in every possible performance group and assiduously avoided any threat of athletic activity, unless it involved wearing sequined headpieces and treading water.

Pam draws inspiration from the places she knows best: she wrote CANDOR while living in a Florida planned community, and set DROUGHT in the woods where she spent her summers as a child. She and her family currently live near Washington, DC. When she's not writing, reading, working or parenting, Pam likes to go to museums and theater performances, and watch far too much television.

As far as she knows, Pam has never been brainwashed. Or maybe that's just what she's supposed to say.

My Review:
Ok so this book was really good. I wasn't to happy about the ending I think it could have had more. But It was good. The story was very addicting as I finished this book in one day. The book follows a girl named Ruby who has been a slave for around 200 year. It is set in the year of 2012 and it is a very thrilling story of what would you do for freedom? and what wouldn't you do for love?

The book is very religions and it shows the many issues that being dedicated to your religion can take you. As would you allow people to treat you badly just because your god left and you think that you are supposed to wait and endure. It takes you to the brink of what wouldn't you for freedom and what would you risk for love??

It is not a christen religious story just so you know. Their god is Otto who left Ruby's mother over 200 years ago. His blood and the water they collect is the staple of their lives.

All in all it was a wonderful book. It has a very good ending but I wish they would have done more. I think it would be an awesome series. And I could see it as a made for tv mini series.

In My Witch Box

So I came home to a happy Surprise 

POSTCARDS!!!  YAY!!

Below is my postcard that I made for my site.  I finally got it to scan right yay!!

this is from the UKRAINE

CALIFORNIA 

POLAND

I also found some really good books at the used bookstore!

I found the following today in New Condition

Nightshade and Wolfbane

the Body Finder

Birth Marked

Giveaway

Check out this awesome giveaway from @LiteraryExplore for a chance to win The Hollow http://literary-exploration.blogspot.com/2011/09/giveaway-and-guest-review.html http://literary-exploration.blogspot.com/p/giveaways.html

In Our Mailbox

So I thought my mail lady was going to kill me today.  I had ordered a bunch of Priority Boxes and such and ended up messing up on the amount. So instead of getting 10 boxes I got 10 units which is 225 boxes and I did that more than once. Thinking I'm going to be getting 10-20 boxes and not units.  We also got our first post card from POSTCROSSING.COM it is from Montana.  And last but not least I revived a few books from Goodreads.com/swap.

You can see my two kids waving. Even the baby who is currently 10 months old and my 7 year old. 

Here are some of my ARC's Some I got today and some of them I didn't. 

Here is our 1st postcard we have gotten from Postcrossing.com 

#BookReview: Shifting by @WiggB @WalkerBooksUK

Synopsis: After bouncing from foster home to foster home, Magdalene Mae is transferred to what should be her last foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico. 

Now that she's eighteen and has only a year left in high school, she's determined to stay out of trouble and just be normal. 

Agreeing to go to the prom with Bridger O'Connell is a good first step. Fitting in has never been her strong suit, but it's not for the reasons most people would expect-it all has to do with the deep secret that she is a shape shifter. 

But even in her new home danger lurks, waiting in the shadows to pounce. They are the Skinwalkers of Navajo legend, who have traded their souls to become the animal whose skin they wear-and Maggie is their next target.

Full of romance, mysticism, and intrigue, this dark take on Navajo legend will haunt readers to the final page. 

NEW LAWS FOR MUSIC VOLUME

MY DAY STARTED OUT LIKE THIS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



<THEN AS THE DAY WENT BY I START TO READ ANOTHER BOOK






THEN WE STARTED HEARING THIS HORRENDOUS  NOISE>










<WE CALLED THE COPS AND FOUND OUT THAT THEY HAD A PERMIT TO TO PLAY MUSIC TILL 8PM SO THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING

IS IT SO HARD TO ASK THEM TO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>








WE NEED >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>












Ok so today we got up to do school and everything was fine.  We didn't get much sleep last night but we were dragging along.  Then around 12pm we started hearing this banging.  I thought it was the next door neighbor with their music up way loud.  But I just found out that it is a community picnic and that they have a permit to have music so they can have it so loud that I can hear it inside my home with the tv and music on from my computer and there is nothing they can do about it until 8pm which is when their permit expires.  So for the next 4 hours myself, my two daughter, my mother who had HBP and my elderly grandmother all have to be subjected to this crap.  

Review: Divergent

Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
Ages: 14 and up
Pages: 496
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

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Biography

Veronica Roth is a 22-year-old debut author, and a recent graduate of Northwestern University's Creative Writing program. While a student, she often chose to work on the story that would become Divergent instead of doing her homework. It was a transforming choice. Now a full-time writer, Ms. Roth lives near Chicago.

My Review:

Simply put, I did not like this book. I tried to like it. I forced myself to make it to chapter 12 and after that.... I was done. I just posted my review and noticed how many people like this book so I hope that this doesn't deter people from reading it. But it just wasn't for me.

The beginning starts off way WAY. I still don't have a clear picture of what was really going on with everything. I even ended up rereading a few chapters just to see if I could understand it better.

The way the book was written was very annoying. And it took me forever to reach chapter 12. When I can read a 600 page book in a day and it took me about 4 hours just to get to page 130. And the words that were used some of them were very hard to pronounce and I hate to think I'm saying it wrong.

200 Follower Contest Where U Get To Pick The Book

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