Christine's Book Corner

Strike up a match and light a way to How To Set A Fire and Why, a contemporary fiction book by Jesse Ball about a teenage girl named Lucia who has lost everything she has cared for in her life and doesn't really care what happens to her. Lucia's father is dead and her mother is living in a mental hospital, with no memory of who Lucia is.  The only person Lucia has in her life is her aunt, who she lives with.  Lucia is a troubled teen who has been kicked out of schools and is now starting a new one.  She arrives with the idea she isn't going to like anyone and not make any friends.  While trying her best to stay away from everyone in the school, she soon finds out they have an Arson Club and suddenly Lucia has found a group she wants to become a member of.  Lucia is willing to do whatever it takes to become a member of this club, even if it means to burn down a place. The Cover: Before reading the book: I didn't pay much attention to it and though...

It's not your classic werewolf story in Mostly Human,  a fantasy novel by D.I. Jolly about a young boy who becomes a werewolf by accident and learns how to live with his new changes in life. Alex Harris is a famous rock star known from the band The Waterdogs.  While the world knows of him as an ordinary rock star, his life is anything but ordinary.  He has been hiding a secret since he was ten years old, a secret only his family knows and they do all they can to keep it that way.  In Mostly Human,  Jolly takes us through Alex's trials as a werewolf and all the changes he grows through in his life, from teenager to adult. Jolly gives us a new take on the classic werewolf story as we see how Alex is bitten by a werewolf, all because he thought he was saving a regular wolf.  Alex was only ten when we find out he was bitten, giving us more of an insight in what his life was like before the incident.  But at the beginning, Jolly brings us to Al...

You will cruise through Bruiser  by Neal Shusterman, a fantasy novel about Brewster who is a loner throughout life and doesn't make friends for one reason.  When he makes friends and starts to care for someone, weird things start to happen.  In Bruiser , Brewster goes against what he believes and starts dating Bronte, twin sister of Tennyson.  Tennyson worries about his sister dating Brewster, especially after all the rumors that have been spread around the school.  The secrets Brewster once held so dearly are soon discovered by Tennyson and Bronte and they soon show their trust by keeping his secrets.   What I liked: This book was very fast paced and I found it hard to put it down.  Brewster was a loner, something I was able to relate to from my high school days.  Shusterman brought him to life that I felt for him right from the beginning.  People didn't give him a chance or never wanted to get to know the real Brewster.  I felt ...

Photo from Goodreads.com Summary  from Goodreads Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children  was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Publishers Weekly called it “an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed characters, a believable Welsh setting, and some very creepy monsters.” This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises. Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages. My Thoughts: Rated 5 Stars. Riggs had me hooked with Miss Peregrine's Ho...

Photo from Goodreads Summary  From Goodreads Before.  Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. My Thoughts Rated 2 Stars The first book I read by John Green.  I thought Green really brought Miles to life in this book.  You can feel his pain, hurt, emotion throughout the story.  A new kid in a new school, he felt out of place.  That is a naturally feeling.  I'm sure many of us h...