Kate Spofford, author

Month: March 2012

  • Review: Looking For Alaska

    Looking For Alaska by John Green Summary: Miles leaves his basically friendless life in Florida to attend a boarding school in Alabama, where his new roommate, nicknamed the Colonel, christens skinny Miles “Pudge” and introduces him to smoking, drinking, and a gorgeous girl named Alaska. Pudge begins to fall in love with the spunky Alaska…

  • Review: Starters

    Starters by Lissa Price I read this via Netgalley.com Summary: The war destroyed everyone who wasn’t vaccinated against the spores. All that were left were the Starters – children – and the Enders – the elderly. Before the war, when people realized that they could now live to age 200, they outlawed children working, and…

  • Review: Croak

    Croak by Gina Damico Summary: Lex used to be a straight-A student, but in the past couple of years she began randomly attacking classmates and in general causing a lot of trouble for her parents, who decide to send her away for the summer to her Uncle Mort’s farm out in the little community of…

  • The Hunger Games: distraction or inspiration?

    I went to the midnight showing of “The Hunger Games” Thursday/Friday… then on Friday night, Janina was going to see the movie again so I was left to my own devices, none of which included writing.  I shouldn’t be so harsh on myself; I did do some research on literary agents, etc.  Put together some…

  • in which i gush about the walking dead

    I lost track of “The Walking Dead” for most of season 2.  It was just so different from the awesome graphic novels!  Andrea is taking much too long to become the gun-toting badass, and Carl killed Shane a long time ago.  All the talking… I was waiting for the non-stop action of the graphic novels…

  • distractions

    I really want to work on my Steampunk Cthulhu story.  I really do.  On Friday night I was on a roll, but Janina was feeling uninspired so we packed it in a little early.  And all weekend I’ve been distracted…  Vh1 with their marathon of “Pop-Up Video: Jersey Shore,” catching up on past episodes of…

  • Review: Darkhouse

    Darkhouse by Karina Halle Summary: One night, when Perry is visiting her uncle and cousins, she goes to explore the old lighthouse on their property, and runs into Dex Foray, who is there filming for an internet TV show. Together they both film some ghostly happenings before barely escaping with their lives. After Perry’s video…

  • Review: 172 Hours on the Moon

    172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad When a librarian on the YALSA listserv said this was too scary for them to read, I knew I immediately would have to read it… luckily I had an ARC from the publisher in my stash! Summary: It’s the year 2019, and the powers that be want…

  • Review: Sweethearts

    Sweethearts by Sara Zarr Summary: Ever since Jennifer’s best (and only) friend Cameron disappeared in fifth grade, she’s been driven to make herself over so no one will bully her anymore. That meant losing a ton of weight, doing her own laundry, learning social skills, and eventually changing her name to Jenna after her mother…

  • Review: Questions Young People Ask

    At the library, we get many book donations.  Some are great and add to our collection or bring in money from the book sales.  Other donations, however, are in a class of their own.  (If you have ever read the blog Awful Library Books, you’ll have some idea of what you’re in for.) As the…