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BookTalk Miles “Pudge” Halter’s claim to fame is memorizing famous last words. Take Henrik Ibsen, the playwright. Well, he’d been sick for a while and his nurse said to him ‘You seem to be feeling better this morning’ and Ibsen looked at her and said, ‘On the contrary.’ and then he died. Or Civil war [...] 
August 23rd, 2011 | Tags: boarding school, friendship, John Green, Looking for Alaska, mental illness, pranks, relationships, Suicide | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 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 Beach Week Book 2 I loved this book. The beach setting is so well done you’ll taste the salty air. A perfect read surrounded by sun and sand or your couch…’cause you’ll feel like you’re there… BookTalk “I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I’ve thought [...]
June 28th, 2011 | Tags: beach, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, family, friendship, Jessi Kirby, Moonglass, realistic fiction, Suicide, summer read, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Clay Jensen comes home from school and finds a package waiting for him…He’s excited…Nothing like an unexpected package – with no return addresss – to make your day. What Clay finds inside is a shoebox full of cassette tapes. What he hears when he inserts the first tape is the voice of Hannah [...]
June 4th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, Jay Asher, Review, Suicide, Thirteen Reasons Why, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment I’ll admit, I didn’t like this book in the beginning. Samantha and her friends are complete and total mean girls. Not the Tina Fey, funny, socially satirical, Mean Girls. No, Oliver’s mean girls are realistically annoying; examples of pure teenage self-centeredness. After watching a day of their narcissism, bullying, and general lack of empathy [...]
April 6th, 2011 | Tags: chick lit, Death, Lauren Oliver, Suicide, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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