But Shiver isn’t without it’s flaws. Grace’s best friends feel rather thin as characters and I often found I had trouble caring about them. Also, the voices of the two narrators (the aforementioned Grace and werewolf Sam) were a little too similar for me. We are told quite often by many characters that Grace is a type-A personality, but from her word choice to her metaphors, her voice was just too similar to artsy-emo Sam for me to believe this. I was often confused about wh

I blog a lot about books and a lot about TV. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good TV show as much (or maybe more) than the next girl, but here are 10 reasons why I love books much better. 1) If you tell people you read a lot of books, you sound smart. Tell them you watch a lot of TV and you…don’t. 2) When reading a book, you get to choose who to cast. Don’t like Robert Pattinson as Edward? Choose someone else! (Or you can cast him in all the parts if you like…) 3) No commercials

Aslan the Golden Lion Tamarin You’ve heard of book mashups right? Where you take two different types of stories and mix them up? Like in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Well today I’m going to give you 10 ideas for Monkey Mashups: Hairy Potter and the Chamber of Secret Bananas: Hairy is worried when he can hear monkeys talking through the walls at Monkeywarts. Anne the Monkey of Green Gables: The Cuthberts are really surprised when they get a little monkey instead of a littl