Ten years after being convicted for the murder of her mother, Jane Jenkins is released from prison due to the mishandling of the evidence. Instead of going back to Hollywood and living in the spotlight of her notoriety, she instead assumes a new identity and disappears from the public eye in the hopes of finding out the truth behind her mother’s death. As a teen, Jane wanted nothing more than to be the next Paris Hilton and she set about Hollywood ensnaring men and being […]
Tom Petty Got it Wrong, Choosing is the Hardest Part
When I picked up Wolf in White Van at the library, I didn’t even read what it was about. I judged it by its title…and the title scared me a little. It was ominous, it was predatory and I? I was curious. I honestly don’t know how to write this review and I don’t know how or who I’d recommend this book to because I flew through the book, I had certain expectations that were met but at the same time, I kept waiting […]
Here’s My Quarter, I’m Ready to Play
I had heard great things about Ready Player One but for some reason I didn’t read when it first came out, I think I’ll blame it on pregnancy or a baby–I had 3 in 4 years and I think this was one of those years, because this really does seem like this would be something that I would be dying to read…so I must’ve been babyin’ it up or something. The buzz has since died down a little, but every single time I asked someone […]
Careful What You Wish For
In my last review of book 4 in this series I suggested that it was impossible for all the major characters to hold up so long, often in such wildly impossible scenarios and that surely at least one of them should have died. Well…I guess I should play the lottery or something because it appears that if I ask for something, I get it. In this book, no major character was safe any longer; the stakes were much higher and it was clear that all […]
By the Pricking of my Thumbs
Let me shout it from the rooftops! I LOVE MACBETH! Macbeth is my absolute favorite thing to teach all year…and my enthusiasm for the play must be catching because usually it’s my students’ favorite thing to read too. Clocking in as Shakespeare’s shortest play, there’s a heck of a lot going on it in. Rumor has it that King James I had a very short attention span (was prone to falling asleep at the theater) and loved the occult, therefore Shakespeare tried to write for […]
A Zombie Slump
The Fires of Atlantis is the fourth book in the Purge of Babylon series and it has finally struck…I’m kind of sick of reading these books. They aren’t even the kind of books I usually read which makes it even harder to stick with them. BUT, I’m going to soldier on because I can’t leave the series just yet, mostly because my mom told me to keep going. I’m an only child, I listen to my mom. I also talk to her at least once […]