Book Review: The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1); By Lemony Snicket

rate } ♠♠♠♠♠ genre } teens | children | young adult | fantasy | mystery | dark humor release day } 1st December 2000 publisher } Scholastic, Inc format } hardback isbn } 9780439206471 pages } 162 pg. source } bought age group } pg 13 interest } young adult | teens challenge } Buy @ Amazon.com | Nolly...

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Book Review: The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events #3); by Lemony Snicket

rate } ♠♠♠♠ genre } fiction | young adult | fantasy | dark mystery | adventure | juvenile release day } 29th February 2000 publisher } HarperCollins format } hardcover isbn } 9780064407687 pages } 214 pgs source } bought age group } pg 13+ interest } reluctant readers | children | teens challenge } -...

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Book Resources

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YA Book Review: The Lovely Bones; By Alice Sebold

rate } ♠♠♠♠ ♥ genre } fiction | young adult | mystery  release day } 29th August 2006 acquired } 20th June 2005 publisher } Little, Brown & Company  format } paperback isbn } 9780316166683 pages } 384 pg. source } given age group } pg 18 interest } pg 18 + awards } Bram Stoker...

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BTT: Detective Qualitites

Hosted by: Booking through Thursday Most people I know enjoy some sort of mystery stories. My mother-in-law loved police and courtroom procedurals. My mother likes detective fiction. There are also murder mysteries, general mysteries, and hard-boiled detective stories, with protagonists such as Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Amelia...

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BTT: Series

Hosted by: Booking Through Series Probably most books stand on their own. But a lot of them are part of a series. J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy comes immediately to mind, as well as Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap series, Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series, and lots more. Do you read books that are part of a series?...

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BTT: Children’s Books

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday With J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince making its sensational debut last weekend I started thinking about children’s books. There have been a lot of wonderful ones over the years, The Cat in the Hat, Where the Wild Things Are, Bambi, the Mother Westwind stories, the Chronicles...

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BTT: How Many

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people are like my uncle, and they read four or five books a week, every week. Some are like my father, and read four or five books in a year. How many books do you read in a week? Month? Year? One in a week. 4 in the month. Minimal 65 books for a year. What’s the best book or series...

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BTT: Format

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people, like my mother, only read paperback books. Others prefer hard cover books. Some read hard cover books because they come out first, but prefer paperbacks otherwise. And you? Do you prefer to read hard cover or paperback books? Paperbacks. But if have no choice, I get the hard covers....

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BTT: Coffee Table Books

Hosted by Booking through Thursday My own personal definition of a coffee table book is a book that is large, over-sized, has lots of pictures, is about a specific theme (e.g., Georgia O’Keeffe’s 100 Flowers, steeple chasing, Disney Animation, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc.) and generally speaking not something that most people would...

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BTT: Buy, Borrow, Trade

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people like to be surrounded by books, and keep everything they’ve ever read. Others don’t like the clutter, and keep them long enough to read them. Most people seem to be somewhere in the middle… Do you buy the books you read, or do you borrow them from the library or from friends or from...

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BTT: A Number Game

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people read one book at a time. Some people have a number of them on the go at any given time, perhaps a reading a bed book, a breakfast table book, a bathroom book, and so on, which leads me to… 1. Are you currently reading more than one book? Yes, I usually read more than one book at a time....

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BTT: An Introduction To Genres

Hosted by: Booking through Thursdays 1. What kind of books do you read?    I read several genres books that includes, Horror, Mythology, Fairytales, Legends, Folklores, Fairytales retelling, fantasy, Dark Goth, Young Adults, Paranormal, Supernatural, Arthurian, Adults, Graphic novels, Mystery & Thrillers. ...

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The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events 02); By Lemony Snicket

rate } ♠♠♠♠ genre } fiction | young adult | fantasy | dark mystery | adventure | juvenile release day } 30th September 1999 publisher } HarperCollins format } hardcover isbn } B0044UHV9U pages } 190 pgs source } bought age group } pg 13+ interest } reluctant readers | children | teens challenge } - ...

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