Author: Kathy Davie

Book Review: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

Book Review: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Graveyard Bookin Hardcover edition on September 30, 2008 and has 312 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo A children’s fantasy about Bod Owens who was rescued by ghosts. This story has a list of awards that’s almost longer than this review, and I’d say it deserved them all! My Take This was such fun! It’s improbable, ridiculous, and so very heartwarming. I know, a graveyard. A cozy, homey graveyard in which Bod learns life’s lessons in a protective setting. It’s a happy place with lots of places for Bod to explore, friends to talk with, and adventures to experience. It’s a safe place for children to learn how to stand up to bullies, how to apologize, how to be a friend, and the value of one’s community. If a person didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset them. I had been curious as to how Bod would reach the end of his time in the graveyard, and as I read, I got teary at the sad yet inevitable ending. “But […]

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Posted April 13, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Insurgent

Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Insurgent

I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Insurgentby Veronica Roth dystopian, science fiction in Hardcover edition that was published by Harlequin, HC Children’s Books on May 1, 2012 and has 525 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include DivergentSecond in the Divergent dystopian Young Adult series and revolving around Tris and her friends. In 2012, Insurgent won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Best Goodreads Author; in 2011, it won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Young Adult Protagonist. My Take This story is a weird combination of good storytelling and stupidity. I don’t know if I’ve been too long a “mature” adult and so far removed from my teens that I can no longer relate or if Tris’ actions are simply part of that annoying trope of the gormless but stubborn “child” who leaps into danger without telling anyone anything — because, sob, no one will believe her or, sob, she’s suicidal or, sob… I got dizzy with all the […]

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Posted April 9, 2014 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews, Young Adult readers / 0 Comments

Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange

Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley The Word Exchangeby Alena Graedon dystopian, science fiction that was published by Anchor Books on April 8, 2014 and has 384 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon An ARC I received through NetGalley set in a dystopian horror of a world, an age-old story of progress and greed with a “rags-to-riches” success story in which greed overcomes commonsense. My Take Wow. Just wow. This was/is terrifying. When you think of how ubiquitous the computer is in our world, how reliant we are upon it, upon the Internet. How much I rely upon it! The “progress” our world is making in conjoining human with machine — think of Google Glass! I’ve always been so impressed with how much people in the past could remember, could quote passages from memory. I wondered why we no longer did such a thing. A large part of it, I suspect, is that we have too many books in the world today. We read a book, and we’re done with it. We move on to the […]

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Posted April 7, 2014 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments