Isle of the Books

This is my second time doing Musing Mondays (as you can probably tell from the title). The question for this week is: Favorite poem or collection of poetry. My first thought when I saw it was ew poetry. I'm not a fan of poems. So I was about to forget all about this week's question till I had a throwback moment to when I had to memorize and recite a poem. I'm pretty sure most of us have heard of the writer. Her name is Emily Dickinson. I bet half of you might roll your eyes at the title and say "wow". The title is A Book . Dickinson does a great job describing the attributes of a book and so it makes me sad I always forget about this lovely piece of poetry. I would definitely encourage book lovers to go look it up and leave a comment on what you think about it. Do you have a favorite poem?

Splintered is written by A.G. Howard and is the first book in the series. It's a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. " This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersn...

I've been wanting to do this meme for a while but every time Monday comes around I forget it exists. Today I actually remembered. Yay! Musing Mondays is held my  Books And A Beat .                                      This week's question is: Name a book everyone should read at least once. This is tough. I have loads of favorite books I wish everyone would read and like (as do most other booklovers). There's Harry Potter, Rick Riordan's books and The Chronicles of Narnia, for example. I'm going to bend the rules here and name two that are in completely different genres. The first is Eragon (Inheritance Cycle #1). My friend convinced me to read it and I fell in love. I read the rest of the series within that same school year. Beware, they are big books but totally worth it. The second is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I'm going to link you over to a post, because the review basica...

Partials is written by Dan Wells and is the first book in the Partials Sequence. It's dystopian with some sci-fi. " Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask. Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization,  Partials  is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike—and of the way in whic...

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  T he Reflections of Queen Snow White is written by David Meredith. The genre is fairy-tale/retellings and is a stand alone. " What happens when "happily ever after" has come and gone?   On the eve of her only daughter, Princess Raven's wedding, an aging Snow White finds it impossible to share in the joyous spirit of the occasion. The ceremony itself promises to be the most glamorous social event of the decade. Snow White’s castle has been meticulously scrubbed, polished and opulently decorated for the celebration. It is already nearly bursting with jubilant guests and merry well-wishers. Prince Edel, Raven's fiancé, is a fine man from a neighboring kingdom and Snow White's own domain is prosperous and at peace. Things could not be better, in fact, except for one thing:  The king is dead.  The queen has been in a moribund state of hopeless depression for over a year with no end in sight...

Cinder is the first installment in the Lunar Chronicles written by Marissa Meyer. The genre is science fiction and fairy-tale retelling.  " Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.   Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.   "~Goodreads (Why are the summaries on Goodreads different from those on the backs of books sometimes? The back of the book mentioned a secret oth...