Harmony Book Reviews

2008 was an amazing year for new books, particularly in the YA genre. I got to read (and review) so many new books that I thought I’d share 10 of my favorites. Here they are (in no particular order):
1.) Deadly Little Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz
2.) I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie K.
3.) [...]

Since it’s New Year’s Eve (or it will be when this is posted. Right now it’s the Eve of New Year’s Eve), I figured there’s no better time to post my list of resolutions. I’m dividing this into three parts – resolutions are a blogger/reviewer, resolutions are a writer, and other resolutions. I know many [...]

 First off, how was writing Far From You different from writing I Heart You, You Haunt Me?
Hmm, good question. Each book is different in how it gets written. I don’t know if I can explain HOW they are different, they just are. I wrote Far From You before I Heart You was released and I [...]

Title:  Milagros: Girl From Away
Author: Meg Medina 
Rating: 8/10
Summary:Milagros de le Torre hasn’t had an easy life: ever since her father sailed away with pirates she’s been teased at school and there’s the constant struggle for her family to make ends meet. Still, Milagros loves her small island in the Caribbean, and she finds comfort in [...]

Title: Rules
Author: Cynthia Lord
Rating: 10/10
Summary: (Taken from Amazon)
 Twelve-year-old Catherine has conflicting feelings about her younger brother, David, who is autistic. While she loves him, she is also embarrassed by his behavior and feels neglected by their parents. In an effort to keep life on an even keel, Catherine creates rules for him (It’s okay to [...]

If you have Yahoo set as your homepage, you probably noticed their story on how the day after Christmas is becoming the new Black Friday? Well, one of their featured stores was Barnes and Nobles who is have 50-90% thousands of books. So, since I had a giftcard to there, I decided to take use of [...]

I absolutely adored Suzanne’s book, Artichoke’s Heart, (see my review here) and Suzanne is extremely nice to chat with. So I’m very happy to present this interview to you. Enjoy!
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What was your inspiration for Artichoke’s Heart?

I was sitting in the chair at my hairdresser’s, and I had all this glop on my head, and the [...]

Here’s some of the stuff I got for Christmas:

*Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray. I’m reading Rebel Angels right now and already I like it better than the first!

 
*The last three books in the 1-800 series by Meg Cabot. I read the first two forever ago and loved them so I [...]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I won’t be making any posts for the next few days. I’m going to be crazy busy the next few days, running from my dad’s family to my mom’s and back and doing all the normal crazy Christmas things.
So no posts for a few days but I’ll have [...]

 
Last Christmas by Kate Brian – I requested that the library get this one in and I read it in one night. I absolutely adore the Private series and this is my favorite so far. It definitely made my week to get this.

Models Don’t Eat Chocoloate Cookies by Erin Dionne – I recieved this one [...]