Pre-Reread Thoughts After seeing the movie The Princess Diaries when I was 15, I was so excited when I saw the books in stores that I grabbed them up. Mia was my age, awkward about the same things as me, struggled to seem attractive, and is a secret princess. AND the nerdy, nice, musician, played by the gorgeous Robert Schwartzman, had a… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: Princess in the Spotlight
Pre-Read Thoughts Just like A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver is a book that the other “team” in my grade-level in middle school was reading, and I was always curious about it. I was never curious enough to read the book, but it was quickly becoming known as a modern classic and I knew that one day I’d… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: The Giver
Pre-Reread Thoughts Another month, another edition of Goosebumps! I believe I received this book for Easter when my mom was obsessed with putting Goosebumps in my Easter basket. From what I can remember, a girl discovers her teacher (?) is a monster and no one believes her. It’s the same format as most Goosebumps books. R.L. Stine really liked to… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: The Girl Who Cried Monster
Pre-Read Thoughts Starting this month, I’m going to give Flashbook Fridays a little shake-up. Instead of solely doing books I read as a kid, I’m also going to review children’s/middle grades/YA books published up to the early 2000’s that I never got to read. This week is the first time I’m doing this, and I’m… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: A Wrinkle in Time
Pre-Reread Thoughts Back again for another Caroline B. Cooney romp, and the FINAL novel of the Time Traveler’s Quartet. Remember how the last time we saw Strat he was heading to Egypt with his two friends from the mental hospital? Well, Annie is set on finding him but somehow manages to fall back to ancient… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: For All Time
Pre-Reread Thoughts You’re probably asking yourself why, after despising every book of hers I’ve re-read, I’m doing ANOTHER Caroline B. Cooney re-read. It’s because I’m desperate to find one gem I will still love as an adult from the author I loved as a kid. I don’t recall too much about this one…I think a… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: The Stranger
Pre-Reread Thoughts If you’ve never read this book before, you did childhood wrong. I read this book many times as a kid, and maybe even stole a copy of the book from my teacher’s classroom library, because I loved it so much. Briefly, it’s about a brother and sister who run away from home and… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Pre-Reread Thoughts In middle school, we used to go to Enrichment class once a week. We would learn something challenging, usually engineering a solution to some problem. My ideas always sucked and never worked so it became a constant frustration to go to a class my brain wasn’t wired for. Therefore, it was always a… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: The Devil’s Arithmetic
Pre-Reread Thoughts At some point in high school, And Then There Were None was mandatory reading in English class. As a fan of the Clue movie and The Westing Game, I was excited to read a murder mystery, and was determined to solve the case. I even kept notes on clues and characters, and I still wound up being completely… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: And Then There Were None
Pre-Reread Thoughts Anyone who went to high school in America knows The Great Gatsby, a tragic tale of the search for the American Dream in the 1920s. I had to read this in my junior year of high school and found it relatively easy to read, but was astonished at all the symbolism. The recent… Continue reading Flashbook Friday: The Great Gatsby
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