Triple T Thursday: Horror Lovers Unite!

Triple T Thursday: Horror Lovers Unite!

I’ve been thinking about this post all week. I had a lot of ideas, which I wrote down to use in the future. Ultimately though, I decided to go back to my first love: Stephen King. I’ve been fascinated with Stephen King for as long as I can remember. My parents had tall bookcases lining the walls of our house and the shelves were covered with titles like The Stand and Misery. I was told early on that those books were not for me; that I could read them when I was older. I eagerly anticipated it and longed for it and that day finally came in middle school when I picked up:   As a middle schooler, this book changed my life. I probably would be just as much an odd duck without having read it, but it definitely made me feel better about my oddities.  In Stephen King’s IT, evil has taken up residence in a small town. Strange things are happening, people are disappearing, monsters are real and the only people who notice are seven children who have bonded over their mutual oddities and how they never fit in.  These seven best friends named themselves The Losers Club. Who wouldn’t love that? As a misfit myself, I carried IT around and read it and loved every terrifying chapter. If you liked IT or really any other […]

Posted April 30, 2015 by Emily in IFTTT Thursday / 0 Comments
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Review: Bad Kid: A Memoir by David Crabb

Review: Bad Kid: A Memoir by David Crabb

**UPDATE I’m giving away a copy!  http://www.emilyreadseverything.com/?p=68 ** Bad Kid: A Memoir on Growing up Goth & Gay in Texas By David Crabb Publication date: May 2015 This isn’t my normal kind of book. I don’t read too many memoirs. I’m not opposed to them but I usually read more fiction. If all memoirs are as funny as this one was, I will definitely be reading more. Just like the title says, David Crabb is gay and goth and growing up in San Antonio, Texas.  David falls in love with the cute boy in his gym class the moment he sets eyes on him. They become fast friends, bonding over their mutual differences. Together they sneak out at night, party at clubs they are too young to enter legally, meet the wrong sort of people and get in tons of trouble. Its a coming of age story and a story about being an outcast. David has a long, hard struggle to figure out where he belongs. This book is filled with unrequited love, drug use and unsupervised teenagers. I could tell that I’m getting older because I spent the entire book wondering, “Where are the parents?!?” I also wanted David to wise up and figure out that he had terrible friends who were only interested in themselves. I didn’t agree with many of the choices that David made. However, I empathized with […]

Posted April 28, 2015 by Emily in Review / 0 Comments
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Manga Monday: Gakkou Gurashi!

Manga Monday: Gakkou Gurashi!

Hello. I like reading as well, though unlike Emily, I don’t read everything. I do read a lot of one thing, though and that is manga, aka Japanese comic books. On Manga Monday, I’ll detail some manga for you in a hopefully informative manner. Gakkou Gurashi! (literally Living at School!) is a slice of life manga serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward, written by Norimitsu Kaihou and and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. It stars Yuki Takeya and her friends in the School Life Club as they try to perform various helpful tasks around her school, and occasionally get into trouble. To go into depth about what I enjoyed about this manga, I’ll unfortunately have to mildly spoil it (though most of this is implied or outright shown in the first chapter). Spoilers follow the cut.

Posted April 27, 2015 by Allison in Review / 0 Comments
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First Ever Triple T Thursday

First Ever Triple T Thursday

Hopefully this will be a regular thing. I’m going to describe a popular book that you might know. Then I will talk about a different book that you might like if you like the first book. These two books will have something in common that makes me think that you might like one if you like the other. If you like this, then you might like that. Let me know if you agree with my picks! Lords of the Underworld Book 1 Darkest Night by Gena Showalter This is the first book in a larger series. That’s what first attracted me because I love series. I’m nosy and I want to know what happens next. Always. This is Paranormal Romance. Remember Pandora’s box? In this world Pandora was protecting the box. Some men were jealous so they opened the box. Their punishment is being cursed with housing  one evil inside themselves and keeping the world safe. In the first book there is lots of exposition and also a very well written love story between Maddox (Keeper of Violence) and Ashlyn a girl with a superpower of her own. Maddox and Ashlyn start out as mortal enemies who learn to trust each other as they fall in love. There’s lots of side stories introducing the other characters as well. If you like this, you might like: Demonica book 1 Pleasure Unbound by […]

Posted April 23, 2015 by Emily in IFTTT Thursday / 1 Comment
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Review: Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Review: Asylum by Madeleine Roux

  Book Talk Daniel has been accepted to a prestigious summer college prep program held at a university in New Hampshire. Unfortunately the normal college dorm is closed for renovations. This summer the students are being housed in an older building on campus, that just happens to be an old mental hospital. Daniel and his two new friends must race to figure out what secrets the building holds before someone else gets hurt. This is the first book in a trilogy. Review This book reminded me, and everyone else, of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Asylum makes use of creepy black and white photographs  and hand written notes that just add to the unsettling feeling the author is cultivating. However, unlike Miss Peregrine, this book is not paranormal. Everything that happens is caused by natural means. Asylum is rated YA but I would place it a little younger than that. The characters are still in high school. That doesn’t automatically make it appeal to a younger audience but Daniel and his friends were immature. There was a little romance that was sweet, innocent and at odds with the horror theme that the author was going for. Nothing says horror like young love and first kisses. I just didn’t connect to this book the way I wanted to. I didn’t like the characters. I wasn’t scared. When […]

Posted April 22, 2015 by Emily in Review / 4 Comments
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New Ventures

New Ventures

I love books. I’ve always loved books. I like to talk about books and I love it when people ask me for recommendations. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Texas Library Association (TLA)’s annual conference last week. There were lots of great sessions for librarians full of interesting information but I didn’t attend any. I had an Exhibit Only badge and I spent my time wandering around. It was a dream come true! People were handing me books left and right!. My Haul I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a book blog for years. While I was at TLA, someone who I respect and admire told me I should start one. Hearing her tell me that I speak eloquently about books made my day, maybe my year. It convinced me it was time to start. I have all these books from TLA to read. Let me tell you about them.

Posted April 22, 2015 by Emily in Uncategorized / 1 Comment
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