The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa: Book Review

The Professor is a brilliant mathematician who suffered some brain damage in an automobile accident years ago. He can remember his entire life up until the accident, but afterwards, he only has a memory of the past 80 minutes. Luckily, his sister-in-law steps in to help care for him. She hires housekeepers to come in […]

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Linger by Maggie Stiefvater: Book Review

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR SHIVER** You have got to be kidding me. This is where it ends? Beck has made some new wolves to care for the pack now that the older members are not shifting into humans anymore. One of the new wolves is Cole St. Clair, a gorgeous rock star. It’s not exactly easy […]

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The Woods by Harlan Coben: Book Review

Paul Copeland’s sister disappeared into the woods of their summer camp one night twenty years ago. The bodies of two of her friends were found. She wasn’t. Now, the past is surfacing and the mystery is begging to be solved. Eh. Had this been my first Coben book, I would’ve loved it. As it is, […]

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Character Connection: Temeraire

Temeraire is the title dragon from His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. Temeraire isn’t supposed to be fighting for the British. He just happened to be commandeered as an egg after the French ship that was transporting him lost a battle. He hatches on board the British ship and sort of imprints on Captain Will […]

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Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Young Tristran Thorn (who’s birth is maybe not as…aboveboard…as Victorian society would like) is desperately in love with Victoria Forester. He screws up his courage one night to ask her to kiss him or marry him or just–something! He is met with laughter. In desperation, he offers to slay dragons and bring back treasures for […]

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2011 Character Connection Links

Click here for my 2010 Character Connections Turnip Fitzhugh: The Pink Carnation series by Lauren Willig Merricat Blackwood: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Amy: The Ruins by Scott Smith Deeba: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville Daemon Sadi: The Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop Hans “Papa” Hubermann: The Book […]

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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff: Book Review

Daisy has been sent from NYC to live with her aunt and cousins in the English countryside. Shortly after her arrival, her Aunt Penn has to travel out of the country for work, leaving the teens alone for a few days. Terrorists strike and nothing is ever the same. This just wasn’t really my kind […]

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