Posts by Holland73

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern     Quote: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas...

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (audiobook)     Quote: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by...

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles (audiobook)     Quote: Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Everyone picks on him -- until Rob Haynes...

Triangles by Ellen Hopkins   I couldn't even finish this book. I found myself becoming very angry at Hopkin's portrayal of all three main characters.  It was as though she took 3 stereotypes of a mother and exaggerated...

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi     Quote: One window; four walls; sixteen square feet of space. For exactly 264 days, Juliette has been imprisoned in a small room because she touched someone and that person died....

December Book Challenge    

So, just by way of clarification (for comers both new and old), new and improved guidelines for the Book Challenge Thread are as follows: 1) Post the books you read ... or not 2) Post a recommendation ... or not 3) Number your...

Has anyone read Incarceron by Catherine Fisher?

Matched by Ally Condie   Quote: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching...

Delirium by Lauren Oliver   Love (aka amor deliria nervosa) is considered a disease.  When a person turns 18, they receive a procedure called the "cure" to rid them of love.  Lena, short for Magdelena, does the...