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BookTalk Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink…take it easy on her…she’s had a rough 10 days… So far she has: Lost her boyfriend, lost her best friend, lost all other friends, did something suspicious with a boy, did something advanced with a boy, had an argument with a boy, drank her first beer, [...] 
August 30th, 2011 | Tags: boyfriends, chick lit, coming of age, E. Lockhart, high school, Ruby Oliver #1, The Boyfriend List, therapy | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment  BookTalk This book is an original thriller with a taste of Sweden’s dirty not-so-little secrets the first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Mikael’s prospects appear bleak [...]
August 24th, 2011 | Tags: autism, coming of age, mystery, sexual abuse, Stieg Larsson, sweden, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, thriller | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | Leave a comment BookTalk I want you to meet Charlie. Charlie is a little odd. A little different. We all know a Charlie…Well, we don’t know our Charlies, but we see them. The quiet kids, the filler kids, the Wallflowers. I guess we always think that these people are just quiet, maybe a little weird…Heck, to be honest [...]
August 18th, 2011 | Tags: abuse, coming of age, date rape, drugs, gay, homosexuality, molestation, relationships, stephen chbosky, Suicide, the perks of being a wallflower | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk “Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After.” (6, ePub ed.) So begins this tale of After. Laurel Meisner and her once-friend-turned-bad-boy neighbor David ditch their respective families plans to grab ice cream after a seder dinner. David claimed calculus homework with a friend. [...]
August 11th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, Death, family, grief, high school, jennifer castle, realistic fiction, relationships, the beginning of after, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Donna Parisi has been wandering through her high school years. She’s acquainted with a nice group of people but they really aren’t friends. She gets good grades and is accepted to the University of Dayton, but her heart’s not in the choice. Donna is drifting. She prefers finding solace in her father’s memory rather [...]
August 9th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, family, funeral home, Jen Violi, mortician, Putting Makeup on Dead People | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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