Friday Five
1. PERFECT
What can I say? This book is raw, honest, and very gripping. I love Ellen Hopkin's books. This story is a companion novel to IMPULSE and follows four teens with their own issues. Cara struggles with her sexuality and afraid to admit she isn't attracted to Sean but rather Dani. Sean uses steroids to help him get a baseball scholarship to Stanford to be close to Cara. Kendra is beautiful but it's not enough. She'll do anything to be a size 2 and be a top model even if that means sleeping with middle-aged men. Andre wants to be a dancer but his perfect parents expect him to get a degree in a financially rewarding career. This book deals with rape, suicide, racism, bullying, anorexia , sexual identity, just to name a few. Hopkin does a great job digging deep and peeling back the layers of her characters that can be uncomfortable at times but very honest and real.
Love, love her books!
2. DRINK, SLAY, LOVE
Ooh, this is a fun twist on the vampire premise. Pearl is a vampire and one day is speared by an unicorn that ends up changing her in an unexpected way. Now she feels for her victims which isn't good considering the King of vampires has just asked her parents to host a festive and needs lots of people for snacks.
Love the voice which is quirky and very fun!
3.ENTHRALLED
When Jackson Pearce sent me a signed postcard of this anthology, I looked it up and had to order. It's an anthology of short paranormal tales edited by Melissa Marr.
4.Watching THE SECRET CIRCLE and so far enjoying it. It comes on right after VAMPIRE DIARIES.
5. I want this book:
Love Shel Silverstein books and can't wait to add this one to our collection.
**Guilty pleasure will be on Saturday which will include a pedicure:
Which color should I go for this time? I'm thinking black with orange dots for a whole Halloween theme.
And I'm also getting hair cut and color so I'll look fab for next Saturday's SCBWI Editor's Day. Curious what editor's think of my sekrit project. I plan on using comments/feedback to work on yet another revision this November. My goal is to get it in shape for Beta readers then querying agents...again.
**Oh, also check out my guest blog at Diversity and YA:
http://www.diversityinya.com/2011/09/books-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/
Let's just say my sekrit project reflects my love of multicultural books.
What can I say? This book is raw, honest, and very gripping. I love Ellen Hopkin's books. This story is a companion novel to IMPULSE and follows four teens with their own issues. Cara struggles with her sexuality and afraid to admit she isn't attracted to Sean but rather Dani. Sean uses steroids to help him get a baseball scholarship to Stanford to be close to Cara. Kendra is beautiful but it's not enough. She'll do anything to be a size 2 and be a top model even if that means sleeping with middle-aged men. Andre wants to be a dancer but his perfect parents expect him to get a degree in a financially rewarding career. This book deals with rape, suicide, racism, bullying, anorexia , sexual identity, just to name a few. Hopkin does a great job digging deep and peeling back the layers of her characters that can be uncomfortable at times but very honest and real.
Love, love her books!
2. DRINK, SLAY, LOVE
Ooh, this is a fun twist on the vampire premise. Pearl is a vampire and one day is speared by an unicorn that ends up changing her in an unexpected way. Now she feels for her victims which isn't good considering the King of vampires has just asked her parents to host a festive and needs lots of people for snacks.
Love the voice which is quirky and very fun!
3.ENTHRALLED
When Jackson Pearce sent me a signed postcard of this anthology, I looked it up and had to order. It's an anthology of short paranormal tales edited by Melissa Marr.
4.Watching THE SECRET CIRCLE and so far enjoying it. It comes on right after VAMPIRE DIARIES.
5. I want this book:
Love Shel Silverstein books and can't wait to add this one to our collection.
**Guilty pleasure will be on Saturday which will include a pedicure:
Which color should I go for this time? I'm thinking black with orange dots for a whole Halloween theme.
And I'm also getting hair cut and color so I'll look fab for next Saturday's SCBWI Editor's Day. Curious what editor's think of my sekrit project. I plan on using comments/feedback to work on yet another revision this November. My goal is to get it in shape for Beta readers then querying agents...again.
**Oh, also check out my guest blog at Diversity and YA:
http://www.diversityinya.com/2011/09/books-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/
Let's just say my sekrit project reflects my love of multicultural books.
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