Love this series! I wish I could afford to own them all. The Beauty is a virus you can inject yourself with that makes you beautiful. It takes the world by storm. We are all beautiful...just one little side effect: you burn up from the inside, eventually explode. The series focuses on the implications and consequences of a world transformed by this kind of beauty. Dazzling art and writing.

Re read by this: so witty, so cosmopolitan, always tongue in cheek. I had forgotten how much this novel affected everything I believe and love about Arthurian mythology. A book to savor.

Loving volume 3. Holden is the nicest guy in the galaxy.

Fun, some new legends and myths in here for me

Xmas is progressing as desired

Will need this for my classroom when I finish! Social media run amok

I love when Nightingale shows up and blows everything up without breaking a sweat.

Decided to finish up my good reads challenge with a favorite character, Peter Grant. This one has unicorns and Peter "fertilizes" a dead river. My favorite Insanity!

Too much narration, but great story and bang up ending.

Novel in form of journal and poetry-tragic and joyful. No surprise that Herrera is our Poet Laureate.

A great sequel to Speaks the Nightbird. Complicated mystery, lots of historical detail, and real development of Matthew Corbett. Some of story seemed far fetched, but that was no less entertaining!

Just started. Fangirling over Matthew Corbett all over again

This was great-light hearted, funny and sometimes wise. It is not serious Atwood but the funny-with-a-bite Atwood. If you know the Tempest, you will laugh out loud. If you don't know the Tempest, there is a nice synopsis in the back.

One of my favorite Ellis books. Ingenious, original, creepy. Read it.

Already laughing out loud--a must read for fans of The Tempest OR Margaret Atwood. More to come when I catch my breath.

Maybe the scariest book I have ever read, and I have read a lot.

Funnier every time read it. If you are a literature fan, Beaton's book is for you. Her Twitter is pretty great too

Love French's books, but this one is special. Antoinette Conway's voice is so affecting-I want to share this with all my teen students, so they can read a character who is strong BECAUSE she is female, likable because she is flawed, distrustful because she has reason to distrust, and so so smart.

Why did I wait so long? Loving every word of this!

Panoramic, prescient--as all Stephenson books are. This 1 tracks the end of life on Earth & the continuation of life in space. Fave characters-Dinah, Ivy, Doob are the core of 2/3 of the book, & though new characters take their place (Ty, Belid, Cath 3, Einstein, Sonar Tax Law), I still miss them. Great concept, comprehensive implementation, but somewhat more narration than I liked. This one just went too far for me, so only 4 stars.

Just a short interlude of "when will the 3rd book about Kvothe be done?"

Ok-not a spoiler: the earth blows up. Just reached a part where the POTUS launches herself to the international space station in cowardly act of self presentation. She has no skills that anyone needs! Astute observation on how useful(?) a politician actually is.

Ok-not a spoiler: the earth blows up. Just reached a part where the POTUS launches herself to the international space station in cowardly act of self presentation. She has no skills that anyone needs! Astute observation on how useful(?) a politician actually is.

Ok-not a spoiler: the earth blows up. Just reached a part where the POTUS launches herself to the international space station in cowardly act of self presentation. She has no skills that anyone needs! Astute observation on how useful(?) a politician actually is.

Lost in another world, this time the apocalypse, that Stephenson creates for us. Who survives the hard rain brought on by the explosion of the moon?

Lost in another world, this time the apocalypse, that Stephenson creates for us. Who survives the hard rain brought on by the explosion of the moon?

Wow. I love Mo Hayder's detective jack caffery, and feel somewhat protective of him. He gets himself in a huge mess with a case that reminds him so much of a terrible episode from his own childhood, that I was afraid he would lose himself. Always a good read--but be warned that all of Mo Hayder's crime books are not for the faint of heart.

It came! I gotta fit this in before school starts next week.

So much fun! Peter Grant is a wizard in training and Constance with London's Metro police. His cases are way cooler than normal crimes, and his inability to stay focused means he makes mega mistakes but in a lovable way. His guvnor, officer Nightingale, is a 109 year old wizard cop who is aging backwards. This one was about jazz vampires sucking the music (and life) out of jazz musicians. I already want to read another one.

A must read. Three Tennessee misfits struggle through their senior year of high school: Lydia, Dill and Travis. You will live each one for their grit, heart and flaws. The writing is top notch, and I don't want to spoil the book, but Dill's voice is poetry from beginning to end. Is there life after high school? The question is serious in this one.

Re-reading before I teach this. Will it stand the test of time?

Cannot wait.

So. Much. Fun. I am hooked on Peter Grant, inspector Nightingale and magical murder mysteries

I love kuiper's poetry!!!

From the Rolling Stone interview w Susan Sontag, published 2013

One of the recent topics in our house, after Orlando---our lives are so delicate, vulnerable.

Every time I read one of the Inspector Gamache mysteries, I don't want to leave the world Louise Penny has created. The slow, careful path to the center of the criminal's heart is just as intoxicating as the path into Gamache's heart.

Enigmatic protagonist, legal mystery and a scandal. What's not to like?

2/2 There are ghosts, giant spider assassins, robot sex and more planets than I can count. The dialogue is sharp and contemporary. Marko is sweet and strong, but Alana--she is the one you will remember.

This was gorgeous in concept and execution. An adult story of the persecution of an alien couple who have defied tradition and married outside their"races," it is told by baby Hazel, and salutes family, unbreakable bonds, and the power of the individual to right wrongs. 1/2

"Blood was the lubricant of history"... Tom has been reading me quotes from this all morning. I guess I better read it

Must read. An autistic 5th grader tells her own story of the year she found a dog, lived through a hurricane, made a new friend and endured family trouble with grace, an obsession with prime numbers and her uncle. I saw my students in this one. Choked up.

his best book yet-full of heart and magic. It is so terrifying to be a human , but this book gave me hope too

"You'd give the hair off your head to be just like everybody else.... " This is what Irie realizes an hour after she has added 2 ft of red black straight extensions to her once glorious Afro. All to impress Millat, who thinks of her as a sister. All the themes and feelings of this book in one line.

Fareed zakaria says I have to read

I need to read this!

Just got butchered at book club about this book. I loved it! Oyeyemi's style is so addicting. I loved the hints of Snow White and the secrets everyone had. Highly recommend, despite my book club.