Title: The Memory Keeper’s DaughterAuthor: Kim EdwardsNo. of Pages: 401 After taking an uncomfortably long break from reading (due to reasons that should be rather apparent, if not blatantly obvious), I picked up this thrilling bestseller that left me emotionally hooked after about 8 pages. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter tells the story of the young …
Book #7 – Stargirl
Title: StargirlAuthor: Jerry SpinelliPages: 186 Stargirl is quirky, peculiar, and nothing like the rest of the students at Mica High School; she plays the ukulele, she cheers for the opposing team in addition to her own, she carries a pet rat with her wherever she goes. And she falls in love with the quiet, behind-the-scenes …
Book #6 – Peony in Love
Title: Peony in LoveAuthor: Lisa SeePages: 284 Peony in Love is a story set deep in 17th-century China, where tradition, folklore, and superstition rule the upper and lower classes alike. Peony is sixteen years old and obsessed with the famous opera The Peony Pavilion, which is based around two lovers who are destined to meet …
Book #5 – Fires in the Bathroom
Title: Fires in the Bathroom (aff link) Author: Kathleen Cushman Pages: 190 It’s a good thing I can count books I read for school, because I’m a bit behind on my 50-Book Challenge (but not too much–if I managed to pop out 3 more books by the end of this month, I’d be about right …
Book #4 – Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Title: Honey, Baby, SweetheartAuthor: Deb CalettiFinished: 2/10/11Pages: 308 I knew that after the heaviness of Love in the Time of Cholera, I needed something fluffy–“candy reading,” I call it. A pleasure book. Of course, even despite all that, I normally would never go for a YA book that had a cover like this; it just …
Book #3 – Love in the Time of Cholera
Book: Love in the Time of CholeraAuthor: Gabriel Garcia MarquezFinished: 2/6/11 Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera is the story of Florentino Ariza, a poetic, solemn young man bedazzled by the charms and beauty of the well-connected Fermina Daza. After months in their youth of exchanging hundreds of love letters back and forth, Fermina …
Book #2 – Other People’s Children
Reading books like this makes me glad that my education forces me to pick up books I wouldn’t even know existed otherwise. The Harvard Education Review says that “Other People’s Children provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms.” And how! Other People’s Children …
Book #1 – The Kite Runner
Note: There are affiliate links in this post, which means I get a small commission on any purchases made through the links, at no extra cost to you. My first book read in 2011, and I couldn’t be more pleased! I got my copy of The Kite Runner for about 50 cents at a library …